forbear

英 [fɔːˈbeə(r) , ˈfɔːbeə(r)]

美 [fɔːrˈber , ˈfɔːrber]

v.  克制; 自制; 忍住(不说话或不做某事)
n.  祖先

复数：forbears　现在分词：forbearing　第三人称单数：forbears　过去式：forbore　过去分词：forborne　

TEM8

BNC.35523 / COCA.33036

牛津词典

verb

• 克制；自制；忍住（不说话或不做某事）
  to stop yourself from saying or doing sth that you could or would like to say or do
  1. He wanted to answer back, but he forbore from doing so.
     他想顶嘴，但是忍住了。
  2. She forbore to ask any further questions.
     她克制自己，不再进一步提问。

noun

noun

柯林斯词典

• VERB 忍耐;克制;避免
  If youforbeartodo something, you do not do it although you have the opportunity or the right to do it.
  1. I forbore to comment on this...
     我克制自己对此不予置评。
  2. Protesters largely forbore from stone-throwing and vandalism.
     抗议者绝大多数没有投掷石头和蓄意破坏。

英英释义

noun

• a person from whom you are descended
  Synonym:forebear

verb

• resist doing something
  1. He refrained from hitting him back
  2. she could not forbear weeping
  Synonym:refrain
• refrain from doing
  1. she forbore a snicker
  Synonym:hold back

双语例句

• Ay me! but yet thou might'st my seat forbear.
  鸠占鹊巢抢我座不可以。
• And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear.
  我对他们说，你们若以为美，就给我工价，不然，就吧了。
• For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
  因为我必说实话。只是我禁止不说，恐怕有人把我看高了，过于他在我身上所看见所听见的。
• I forbear to tell his name.
  我不愿说出他的名字。
• I cannot forbear from expressing my opinion about your recent mistakes.
  对于你最近的一些错误我不能不表示我的意见。
• The wounded man could not forbear to cry out.
  受伤的人忍不住哭起来。
• He could not forbear from expressing his disagreement.
  他忍不住要表达不同意见。
• The earth shall soon dissolve like snow, The sun forbear to shine;
  大地即将，如雪消融；太阳亦会，黯淡陨没。
• The organisation that had undertaken this bogus survey I forbear from mentioning its name did not disguise that it had done so in order to draw attention to the problem of abuse of children.
  进行这项伪调查的组织（我不想说出它的名字），没有假装自己的目的是为了让公众关注虐童行为。
• Transported with this idea, she could not forbear acting with her head the thought that passed in her mind, when down came the can of milk!
  一般想着，一边运送（牛奶），正当这个想法刚好在她脑海中闪现的时候，她忍不住晃了下脑袋，这时候（她头顶的）那罐牛奶掉了下来！