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

• And as we have said in many international forays, we in Ireland have great confidence in his capacity and your capacity to see this through.
  就像我们在许多国际场合下所说的，我们爱尔兰对他的能力，对你们解决这个问题的能力非常有信心。
• For this reason, I do not expect my theoretical forays into these neglected areas to compete with or replace extant linguistic theories of language development.
  因此，当我的理论所谈到的内容涉及了其它那些被忽视的领域时，我并不想以我的理论来和现有的语言发展理论竞争或取代它们。
• 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。
• North Korea, which called the meeting on Saturday, warned that its forces would take "decisive steps" if US troops continued to make what it called provocative forays up to the military demarcation line, the border between the Koreas.
  上星期六要求召开此次会议的朝鲜警告说，如果美军继续在韩国和朝鲜之间的军事分界线做出它所称的挑衅行为，它的部队将采取“果断行动”。
• 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。
• Compared with earlier forays by China in Africa, this is a very public deal with transparent terms and conditions.
  与此前中国对非洲突然的交易不同，这是一宗非常公开的交易，条款和条件都很透明。
• 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。
• Local banks are increasingly being favoured by Chinese companies, even in their forays offshore to raise money and make acquisitions.
  中国本土银行日益受到本国企业青睐。它们即使是在前往海外攻城略地，进行融资和收购的时候，也日益喜欢与本土银行合作。
• 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。
• 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。