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小词详解 | forfeit
forfeit 英 [ˈfɔːfɪt] 美 [ˈfɔːrfɪt]
The way to make supply chains more resilient is not to domesticate them, which concentrates risk and forfeits economies of scale, but to diversify them.
要让供应链更能抵抗风险,不应该将它迁回国内,因为这只会让风险集中并丧失规模经济;供应链多元化才是出路。
——《经济学人》In many cases, if you don’t spend the money by a certain deadline — often the end of the calendar year — you forfeit the cash in your account.
在很多情况下,如果你没有在某个截止日期前(通常是日历年结束时)花掉这笔钱,你就会丧失你账户中的现金。
——《纽约时报》
[动词] 失去或被剥夺(财产、权利或特权)以作为对不当行为的惩罚
他开车走了,没有注意到他所造成的附带损害。这是他必须付的罚金。
He drove off, oblivious of the collateral damage he had caused. That is the forfeit he must pay.
她因为说谎丧失了朋友们的尊重。
She forfeited the esteem of her friends by telling lies.
他主动放弃了可观的酬金,觉得自己的健康更加重要。
He has forfeited a lucrative fee but feels his well-being is more important.
她暗中兼差替企鹅人做事。她知道如果她不遵命就会丧命。
She moonlighted for the Penguin. She knew her life was forfeit if she did not do as she was told.
He had no rights at all where she was concerned; this afternoon he had forfeited them all, forever.
凡是有关她的事情,他都无权过问,当天下午他已经把这种权利彻底丧失了,永远丧失了。
relinquish: voluntarily cease to keep or claim; give up confiscate: to officially take sth away from sb, especially as a punishment renounce: formally declare one's abandonment of (a claim, right, or possession)