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Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

不许 [bùxǔ]
  1. 1. not allow; must not
    不许说谎。
    You mustn't tell lies.
    熄灯后不许说话。
    No talking after lights out.
  2. 2. [verbal] (used in a rhetorical question) can't
    何必非等我,你就不许自己去吗?
    Why wait for me? Can't you go yourself?

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

不许 [bùxǔ]
  1. 1. 不允许
    不许随地吐痰
  2. 2. 不能(常用于反问)
    你就不许独立完成作业吗?

Examples

不许说谎。
You mustn't tell lies. 不许
熄灯后不许说话。
No talking after lights out. 不许
何必非等我,你就不许自己去吗?
Why wait for me? Can't you go yourself? 不许
历史的错误不许重演。
Past mistakes should not be repeated. 重演
不许打他!
You mustn't beat him!
我告诉你,下回可不许这样。
Let me tell you, don't do it again. 告诉
医生再三关照不许你再抽烟。
The doctor ordered you again and again to stop smoking. 关照
学校规定不许抽烟。
The school made a regulation forbidding smoking. 规定
不许和奶奶还嘴,这不礼貌。
Don't answer back to your grandmother; it's not polite. 还嘴
看你那股埋汰劲,不许你进屋。
Look, how dirty you are! You can't go inside. 埋汰

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