forbears

英 [fɔːˈbeəz]

美 [fɔːrˈberz]

v.  克制; 自制; 忍住(不说话或不做某事)
forbear的第三人称单数

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。

双语例句

• And yet, the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forbears fought are still at issue around the globe.
  但我们的先辈为之奋斗的那些革命信念，在世界各地仍然有着争论。
• Her mother's forebears had come out of Britain by way perhaps of Connecticut generations back, and her father's forbears ultimately out of Holland.
  她母亲的祖先来自英国，在来到俄亥俄之前可能在康涅狄格生活了好几代，而她父亲的先祖则来自荷兰。
• They were also beginning to make, in addition to the chipped implements of their hunter forbears, implements of polished stone.
  除了他们那些以狩猎为生的祖先所用过的凿制器具外，他们还慢慢开始制作光滑的石器。
• A religious institute in which only simple vows, not solemn vows, are taken. For I have sworn before you, and almighty God, the same solemn oath our forbears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters ago.
  一个只进行简单宣誓而没严肃宣誓的宗教组织因为我已在你们和全能的上帝面前，宣读了我们的先辈在170多年前拟定的庄严誓言。
• A great man has two hearts; one bleeds and the other forbears.
  一个伟大的人有两颗心：一颗心流血，另一颗心宽容。
• We, the People, have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbears, and true to our founding documents.
  因为我们美国人民一直在坚守国家先驱者理想的信仰，以及忠诚于我们的建国宣言。
• It is the way our wiser and calmer forbears fed, not people, but hogs: as much as possible and as fast as possible, with no standard of quality.
  我们更加聪明和冷静的祖先喂养猪而不是人的方式：尽可能多，尽可能快，没有质量标准。