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

• In fact, after seven years as a pedestrian and several forays as a driver, I have not yet figured out exactly what they are& but they seem to work.
  实际上，在中国当了7年行人并尝试开了几次车以后，我仍然没弄明白这些规则到底是什么&但这些规则好像还挺管用。
• Intel has made unsuccessful forays into communications and consumer electronics markets over the past decade before retreating.
  过去十年里，英特尔曾进军通信市场和消费电子市场，但未获成功，后来只得撤出。
• But its size means that, these days, its forays are also occasionally treated with suspicion.
  但如今，谷歌的一些初步尝试偶尔也会招来质疑，这都是其公司规模造成的。
• We are already beginning to see worrying early forays into protectionism.
  我们已开始看到令人担忧的保护主义抬头迹象。
• We understand that exploration involves inevitable forays into blind alleys and down dead ends.
  我们知道，探索包括不可避免地遇到死胡同和封闭的峡谷。
• 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。
• 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。
• Their own forays are following the same logic.
  它们投资外国金融机构也遵循了同样的逻辑。
• CIC shied away from high-profile investments last year as the global financial crisis worsened but the fund is now primed to make more aggressive forays abroad.
  去年，随着全球金融危机恶化，中投公司回避了令人瞩目的投资，但该基金现已准备好进行更为激进的海外投资行动。
• 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。