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小词详解 | forgo
forgo 英 [fɔːˈɡəʊ] 美 [fɔːrˈɡoʊ]
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外刊例句
Governments will not want to forgo its benefits.
政府不会想放弃自己的利益。
——《经济学人》Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin deemed the comment a violation of the (PLO) Chairman’s pledge to forgo violence and threatened to stop the peace process.
以色列总理伊扎克·拉宾认为,这段话违反了巴解主席放弃暴力的承诺,因而扬言要中止和平进程。
——《时代周刊》
[动词] 未做或拒绝接受(令人愉快或有价值的事物)
那个疲惫不堪的旅人在城里四处寻觅,想找一家合适的旅馆。他为了完成一项工作而放弃了他的假期。
Theweary traveller roamed about the town trying to find a suitable hotel. He forwent his holiday in order to finish a job.
The beautiful weather seemed to mock them; Harry could imagine how it would have been if Dumbledore had not died, and they had had this time together at the very end of the year, Ginny's examinations finished, the pressure of homework lifted...and hour by hour, he put off saying the thing that he knew he must say, doing what he knew was right to do, because it was too hard to forgo his best source of comfort.
阳光明媚的天气似乎在嘲弄他们。哈利不禁想象,如果邓布利多没死该有多好。现在到了年末,金妮的考试已经结束,作业的压力减轻了,他们整天泡在一起……他知道自己必须说什么和应该做什么,但他一小时一小时地往后拖延,因为他实在舍不得放弃最能给他带来慰藉的东西。
eschew: deliberately avoid using; abstain from relinquish: voluntarily cease to keep or claim; give up renounce: refuse or resign a right or position, especially one as an heir or trustee