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

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