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

• 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。
• Or else he would forego his mortal nature.
  又或者早早的结束。
• 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。
• Second, other major economies, starting with the G7, should agree to forego currency intervention, except in rare circumstances agreed to by others.
  其次，其它主要经济体（从G7成员国开始）应同意放弃干预汇率的做法，除非是在其它国家一致赞同的极少数情况下。
• 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。
• 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？
• Since she's opted to forego all appeals.
  因为她选择了放弃上诉。
• She said she would forego the farmer's debt if she could marry his son.
  她说，如果她能够嫁给他的儿子，她将放弃农夫的债务。
• This point puts the lie to one of the sillier reactions from investors: that by leaving China, Google would needlessly forego zillions in future revenues from the world's biggest internet growth market.
  这一点揭示了投资者一种愚蠢反应的错误所在：他们以为，谷歌离开中国，就等于告别全球增长最快的互联网市场，毫无必要地放弃这个市场将产生的天文数字般的收入。
• 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。