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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。