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

• 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。
• The acquisitions have generated less political controversy in Canada than forays by Chinese companies into the US.
  与中国企业在美国发起的收购相比，这些收购活动在加拿大引起的政治争议不大。
• 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。
• However, their increasing forays, which have lately included conventional fighter planes from regular air forces, have begun to get in the way of our daily scientific mission.
  然而，他们最近增加的包括传统的战斗机从常规的空中力量，已开始妨碍我们的日常工作和使命。
• 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。
• 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”。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。