forego

英 [fɔːˈɡəʊ]

美 [fɔːrˈɡoʊ]

v.  先行，在……前面，发生在……之前；放弃，摒弃；拒绝

过去分词：foregone　现在分词：foregoing　第三人称单数：foregoes　过去式：forewent　

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BNC.18748 / COCA.17333

柯林斯词典

• VERB 摒弃;摒绝;放弃
  If youforegosomething, you decide to do without it, although you would like it.
  1. Keen skiers are happy to forego a summer holiday to go skiing.
     滑雪爱好者乐于利用暑期假日去滑雪。

英英释义

verb

• lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime
  1. you've forfeited your right to name your successor
  2. forfeited property
  Synonym:forfeitgive upthrow overboardwaiveforgo
• do without or cease to hold or adhere to
  1. We are dispensing with formalities
  2. relinquish the old ideas
  Synonym:waiverelinquishforgoforesweardispense with
• be earlier in time
  1. Stone tools precede bronze tools
  Synonym:predateprecedeforgoantecedeantedate

双语例句

• Or else he would forego his mortal nature.
  又或者早早的结束。
• Since she's opted to forego all appeals.
  因为她选择了放弃上诉。
• In times of economic crisis, people tend to forego private care and make more use of publicly financed services.
  经济危机期间，人们往往放弃私人医疗服务，而更多地利用公立服务。
• Better to be safe and forego unwanted surprises when it's too late.
  最好现在就谨慎些，不要到为时已晚时再去表示震惊。
• Should you forego closing a million dollar deal to attend a ball game with your son?
  你是否应该为了和你儿子一起去打球而拒绝一个价值100万美元的合同？
• Political friendships he tells us are not the kind of thing that require us to forego our own individual identities in a way that one might find in?! passionate relations of love right?
  他告诉我们，政治友情并不需要我们，放弃自己的个人身分，就像有人可能会，在爱恋的激情中那么做一样，对吗？
• If North Korea wanted to deliver a message to us that they were prepared to forego nuclear weapons, there are a lot of places they could do that.
  他表示：如果朝鲜希望向我们传递信息，表示他们准备放弃核武器，那么他们有许多地方可以这么做。
• Does this mean the liberty will forego its Rubicon rating and become just another crossover?
  不知道这究竟意味着自由客将放弃强悍的越野能力，乖乖地变身成另一台跨界车？
• This makes it hard to generate enthusiasm for another round of lessons learned, and has been used as an argument to forego collecting any more data.
  这使得很难产生了解另一轮经验的热情，并且用作放弃收集更多数据的论点。
• But it also means we forego our chance to think twice and act differently.
  但是，这也意味着我们正在放弃三思而后行的选项。