forays

英 [ˈfɒreɪz]

美 [ˈfɔreɪz]

n.  (改变职业、活动的)尝试; 突袭; 闪电式袭击; 短途(寻物); 短暂访问(新地方)
foray的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 初次尝试;涉足
  If you make aforayintoa new or unfamiliar type of activity, you start to become involved in it.
  1. Emporio Armani, the Italian fashion house, has made a discreet foray into furnishings.
     意大利时装品牌安普里奥·阿玛尼谨慎进入家居用品市场。
  2. ...her first forays into politics.
     她首次涉足政界
• N-COUNT 短暂旅行;闪电造访
  You can refer to a short journey that you make as aforayif it seems to involve excitement or risk, for example because it is to an unfamiliar place or because you are looking for a particular thing.
  1. Most guests make at least one foray into the town...
     多数客人至少去过一次城里。
  2. A foray to your supermarket will supply all the ready-made foods for an excellent picnic.
     去一趟超市就可以将一次完美野餐所需的现成食物置办妥当。
• N-COUNT 突袭;闪电式袭击
  If a group of soldiers make aforayintoenemy territory, they make a quick attack there, and then return to their own territory.
  1. These base camps were used by the PKK guerrillas to make forays into Turkey.
     这些基地训练营被库尔德工人党游击队用于对土耳其实施突袭行动。

双语例句

• The acquisitions have generated less political controversy in Canada than forays by Chinese companies into the US.
  与中国企业在美国发起的收购相比，这些收购活动在加拿大引起的政治争议不大。
• Perhaps we should limit the number of military forays into foreign countries and concentrate on domestic matters.
  或许我们应该限制对外国的军事偷袭的次数，把精力集中在国内事务上。
• The incident comes after other recent forays into the real world backfired.
  最近，在此事发生之前，首相就曾试图体察真实世界却反遭诟病。
• There have been some forays into the trade by small companies.
  有些小公司在这门生意上作了一些尝试。
• This may explain why many traditional British private schools are planning to make their first foreign forays into other countries.
  这可能解释了，为何许多传统的英国私立学校正在计划把首所分校设在其它国家。
• In fact, after seven years as a pedestrian and several forays as a driver, I have not yet figured out exactly what they are& but they seem to work.
  实际上，在中国当了7年行人并尝试开了几次车以后，我仍然没弄明白这些规则到底是什么&但这些规则好像还挺管用。
• Inevitably, such bold international forays have significant diplomatic implications.
  这种争夺国际能源的大胆举动，不可避免地会产生重大的外交影响。
• We understand that exploration involves inevitable forays into blind alleys and down dead ends.
  我们知道，探索包括不可避免地遇到死胡同和封闭的峡谷。
• Unlike my meek, hopeful forays, she began to demand it, urgently and often and in places I never dared.
  与我温柔、充满希冀的心血来潮不同，她开始迫切地、频繁地需求性爱，甚至在一些我从来不敢尝试的场所也如此。
• However, their increasing forays, which have lately included conventional fighter planes from regular air forces, have begun to get in the way of our daily scientific mission.
  然而，他们最近增加的包括传统的战斗机从常规的空中力量，已开始妨碍我们的日常工作和使命。