英 [fɔːˈbeə(r)] 美 [fɔːrˈber]
vt. 忍耐；克制
vi. 忍耐；克制
n. 祖先
复数forebears
第三人称单数forbears
现在分词forbearing
过去式forbore
过去分词forborne
forbear /fɔːˈbɛə/ [ forbearing forbore forborne forbears ]
及物动词/不及物动词 If you forbear to do something, you do not do it although you have the opportunity or the right to do it. 忍住
I forbore to comment on this.
我不欲评论它
Protesters largely forbore from stone-throwing and vandalism.
绝大多数抗议者忍住没扔石块和破坏公物
forbear /ˈfɔːˌbɛə/
→a variant spelling offorebear
权利的暂不行使
克制
祖先
... ◎ [defeat;overcome;capture] 攻下;战胜;打败 ◎ [restrain;forbear] 克制 ◎ [damage] 迷信说法。认为人生下来有属相相克,有五行相克,命硬的又克父母;害,损伤 ...
... vermin害虫 disdainful轻蔑的，鄙视的 forbear忍耐，克制，容忍 ...
... brook 对别人的容忍 forbear 对自己的克制 allow for 允许 ...
forbear(隐忍), 此释义来源于网络辞典。
forbearing 宽容的；忍耐的
forbearance 自制，忍耐；宽容
forbearing 克制（forbear的现在分词）
Forbear to worsen our chances with dangerous speech.
不要用危险的语言让我们的机会更渺茫。
It is often difficult to forbear from expressing one's opinion.
克制自己不发表意见通常是非常困难的。
It is often difficult to forbear from expressing one's opinion.
克制自己不发表意见常常是很难的。
It was a quaint forbear to today's industry paranoia over CD-burning and Internet downloading.
The classic theory of deterrence presupposes a calculating evildoer who can evaluate the cost-benefits of proposed actions and will act and forbear from acting on the basis of these calculations.
" But perhaps the philosopher who best understood the transcendental possibilities of play was Epicurus' forbear, Plato, who wrote: "Man is made God's plaything and that is the best part of him.