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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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”。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。