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

• 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。
• The incident comes after other recent forays into the real world backfired.
  最近，在此事发生之前，首相就曾试图体察真实世界却反遭诟病。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。