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foray v.突袭；侵略；劫掠n.突袭；尝试 (1) 他们对敌军领土进行了突袭。(2) 这是该公司打入计算机市场的首次尝试。 This word derives from the Latin fuerre 'straw', which led into Old French as fourager 'forage,' or search for food. Think of soldiers stealing food from the enemy as maybe how this word first came to be used. Even if that is historically inaccurate, your foray into amateur word-sleuthing will help you remember this word.

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英 ['fɒreɪ] 美 ['fɔːreɪ] (1) They forayed into enemy territory.(2) This is the company's first foray into the computer market. Foray means brief excursion. If you're in the army, that's a literal excursion into enemy territory. For the rest of us, it means trying something out. "My foray into rugby ended with my spending a week in the hospital." 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]初次尝试；涉足 If you make a foray into a new or unfamiliar type of activity, you start to become involved in it.   [oft poss N]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。...her first forays into politics.她首次涉足政界2[N-COUNT 可数名词]短暂旅行；闪电造访 You can refer to a short journey that you make as a foray if 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.   [usu N into/to n]Most guests make at least one foray into the town...多数客人至少去过一次城里。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。3[N-COUNT 可数名词]突袭；闪电式袭击 If a group of soldiers make a foray into enemy territory, they make a quick attack there, and then return to their own territory.   [oft N into n]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。

英语单词	foray
英美音标	英 ['fɒreɪ] 美 ['fɔːreɪ]
中文释义	v.突袭；侵略；劫掠 n.突袭；尝试
英语例句	(1) They forayed into enemy territory. (2) This is the company's first foray into the computer market.
中文例句	(1) 他们对敌军领土进行了突袭。 (2) 这是该公司打入计算机市场的首次尝试。
vocabulary简明	Foray means brief excursion. If you're in the army, that's a literal excursion into enemy territory. For the rest of us, it means trying something out. "My foray into rugby ended with my spending a week in the hospital."
vocabulary扩展	This word derives from the Latin fuerre 'straw', which led into Old French as fourager 'forage,' or search for food. Think of soldiers stealing food from the enemy as maybe how this word first came to be used. Even if that is historically inaccurate, your foray into amateur word-sleuthing will help you remember this word.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]初次尝试；涉足 If you make a foray into a new or unfamiliar type of activity, you start to become involved in it. [oft poss N] 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。 ...her first forays into politics. 她首次涉足政界 2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]短暂旅行；闪电造访 You can refer to a short journey that you make as a foray if 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. [usu N into/to n] Most guests make at least one foray into the town... 多数客人至少去过一次城里。 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。 3 [N-COUNT 可数名词]突袭；闪电式袭击 If a group of soldiers make a foray into enemy territory, they make a quick attack there, and then return to their own territory. [oft N into n] 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。

Foray Make Enemy Territory N Count 可数名词 N Means