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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。