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

• The incident comes after other recent forays into the real world backfired.
  最近，在此事发生之前，首相就曾试图体察真实世界却反遭诟病。
• 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。
• 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。
• Perhaps we should limit the number of military forays into foreign countries and concentrate on domestic matters.
  或许我们应该限制对外国的军事偷袭的次数，把精力集中在国内事务上。
• I did not scan this, and frankly, I just stumbled across it in my internet forays.
  我没有扫描这一点，坦率地说，我只是偶然在它在我的互联网切入点。
• Probably most painfully, his forays into economics and philosophy often have met with considerable scepticism, especially from academia.
  或许，最痛苦的是，他对经济学和哲学的研究通常会碰到不少的怀疑，尤其是在学术界。
• 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”。
• Many of their forays into genuinely competitive sectors have ended in ignominious failure.
  他们很多进军真正有竞争性行业的尝试都以惨败而告终。
• Inevitably, such bold international forays have significant diplomatic implications.
  这种争夺国际能源的大胆举动，不可避免地会产生重大的外交影响。