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

• 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 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。
• 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。
• Ay me! but yet thou might'st my seat forbear.
  鸠占鹊巢抢我座不可以。
• You know I have power to do, and yet I forbear it.
  你一定晓得我是有这种权力的，然而我忍耐着不去做。
• 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。
• For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
  因为我必说实话。只是我禁止不说，恐怕有人把我看高了，过于他在我身上所看见所听见的。
• He forbear from take any further action.
  他克制自己不采取任何进一步的行动。
• Mature woman would forbear their own curiosity to preserve the family's integrity and spiritual calmness.
  成熟的女人会隐忍自己的好奇心保全家庭的完整和精神层面的平静。
• They all pinched me at once, and in a dreadfully expert way: screwing up such little pieces of my arms that I could hardly forbear crying out.
  他们一起来捏我，他们捏得很高明，把我胳膊上的肉一小片一小片地拧着，拧得我几乎叫出声来。