forbear

英 [fɔːˈbeə(r) , ˈfɔːbeə(r)]

美 [fɔːrˈber , ˈfɔːrber]

v.  克制; 自制; 忍住(不说话或不做某事)
n.  祖先

复数：forbears　现在分词：forbearing　第三人称单数：forbears　过去式：forbore　过去分词：forborne　

TEM8

BNC.35523 / COCA.33036

牛津词典

verb

• 克制；自制；忍住（不说话或不做某事）
  to stop yourself from saying or doing sth that you could or would like to say or do
  1. He wanted to answer back, but he forbore from doing so.
     他想顶嘴，但是忍住了。
  2. She forbore to ask any further questions.
     她克制自己，不再进一步提问。

noun

noun

柯林斯词典

• VERB 忍耐;克制;避免
  If youforbeartodo something, you do not do it although you have the opportunity or the right to do it.
  1. I forbore to comment on this...
     我克制自己对此不予置评。
  2. Protesters largely forbore from stone-throwing and vandalism.
     抗议者绝大多数没有投掷石头和蓄意破坏。

英英释义

noun

• a person from whom you are descended
  Synonym:forebear

verb

• resist doing something
  1. He refrained from hitting him back
  2. she could not forbear weeping
  Synonym:refrain
• refrain from doing
  1. she forbore a snicker
  Synonym:hold back

双语例句

• And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear,( for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them.
  他们或听，或不听，（他们是悖逆之家），必知道在他们中间有了先知。
• Transported with this idea, she could not forbear acting with her head the thought that passed in her mind, when down came the can of milk!
  一般想着，一边运送（牛奶），正当这个想法刚好在她脑海中闪现的时候，她忍不住晃了下脑袋，这时候（她头顶的）那罐牛奶掉了下来！
• She could not forbear crying out.
  她禁不住叫喊出来。
• I think you must have remarked that I could not forbear a tribute to those charms when I put up the steps of the hackney-coach.
  我想，你一定注意到，当我把出租马车的踏板收起来的时候，我禁不住赞美起你的魅力来。
• And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.
  人子啊！要听我对你所说的话，不要悖逆象那悖逆之家，你要开口。
• Can't forbear criticizing their ineptitude.
  禁不住要批评他们的笨拙。
• I forbore to comment on this
  我克制自己对此不予置评。
• The organisation that had undertaken this bogus survey I forbear from mentioning its name did not disguise that it had done so in order to draw attention to the problem of abuse of children.
  进行这项伪调查的组织（我不想说出它的名字），没有假装自己的目的是为了让公众关注虐童行为。
• Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
  6我虽说话，忧愁仍不得消解。我虽停住不说，忧愁就离开我吗。22那少年人听见这话，就忧忧愁愁的走了。因为他的产业很多。
• His plan was such a success that even his original critics could scarcely forbear from congratulating him.
  他的计划获得如此巨大成功，就连他原来的批评者都几乎忍不住要祝贺他。