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)
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  1. N-COUNT 初次尝试;涉足
    If you make a foray into a 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
  2. N-COUNT 短暂旅行;闪电造访
    You can refer to a short journey that you make as a foray if 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。
  3. N-COUNT 突袭;闪电式袭击
    If a group of soldiers make a foray into enemy 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。
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双语例句

  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。
  2. 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。
  3. Unlike my meek, hopeful forays, she began to demand it, urgently and often and in places I never dared.
    与我温柔、充满希冀的心血来潮不同，她开始迫切地、频繁地需求性爱，甚至在一些我从来不敢尝试的场所也如此。
  4. 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。
  5. 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。
  6. 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。
  7. This wave of deals follows two previous forays overseas.
    这是日本公司继前两次进军海外后的第三次收购热潮。
  8. 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。
  9. 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。
  10. 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。
  11. But after some early loss-making forays, mainly through investments in US and European financial companies, China has become more cautious about where it places its money.
    但在经历了早期一些赔钱的尝试主要是针对美国和欧洲金融机构的投资之后，中国在资金投向方面已变得更为谨慎。
  12. 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。
  13. 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。
  14. 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”。
  15. 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。
  16. Glen Matten is an enthusiastic young nutritionist and writer who has made forays into TV.
    格伦·曼登是一个热活力四射的年轻营养学家兼作家，已将自己的作品搬上了电视银幕。
  17. 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。
  18. Local banks are increasingly being favoured by Chinese companies, even in their forays offshore to raise money and make acquisitions.
    中国本土银行日益受到本国企业青睐。它们即使是在前往海外攻城略地，进行融资和收购的时候，也日益喜欢与本土银行合作。
  19. It began with a light grazing and tender tentative forays that secreted the unique flavour of our skins.
    轻轻的揉擦抹拭，温柔的试探进袭。我们的皮肤发散出独特的芳香。
  20. 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。
  21. More recently, Chinese food aid has helped prop up the regime of Kim Jong-il, who recently made one of his occasional forays out of the country with a visit to Beijing and several other northern Chinese cities.
    近年，中国的粮食援助帮助支撑起金正日政权。最近，金正日进行了少见的出国旅行，访问了北京和其它几个中国北方城市。
  22. This may explain why many traditional British private schools are planning to make their first foreign forays into other countries.
    这可能解释了，为何许多传统的英国私立学校正在计划把首所分校设在其它国家。
  23. 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。
  24. 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。
  25. 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。
  26. 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。
  27. 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。
  28. 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。
  29. And as we have said in many international forays, we in Ireland have great confidence in his capacity and your capacity to see this through.
    就像我们在许多国际场合下所说的，我们爱尔兰对他的能力，对你们解决这个问题的能力非常有信心。
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