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　

TEM8

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

• Buildings close at a reasonable hour, obliging salarymen to forego hours of masochistic overtime.
  写字楼在正常时间关闭，迫使工薪阶层放弃数小时的自虐式加班。
• They have people who over-consume health care, and pay too much for it, together with people who forego the most basic and essential care for financial and other reasons.
  有些人过多地利用卫生保健并为此支付过多的费用，还有一些人出于经济及其它原因放弃了最基本和必要的医疗。
• 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？
• If these things cannot be agreed, then it is best to forego the project and turn your attention to more worthy projects.
  如果这些事情不能达成一致，最好在项目开始之前就转移您的注意力到其它更有价值的项目上。
• 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。
• Mickey agreed to forego his holiday.
  米基同意放弃他的假期。
• Why it matters: Many singles forego pleasure and self-care for their jobs or career.
  为什么：很多单身人士为了工作和事业放弃了快乐和自我关怀。
• Its goal is to allow the parser to validate XML documents against the vocabulary definition so it can forego readability in favor of precision.
  它的目标是使解析器能够针对词汇表的定义验证XML文档，因此在保持可读性的同时更强调精确性。
• 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。
• 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？