foregone

英 [ˈfɔːɡɒn]

美 [ˈfɔːrɡɔːn]

adj.  先前的，过去的，预知的
v.  （在位置时间或程度方面）走在…之前，居先( forego的过去分词 )

过去分词：foregone　

BNC.19944 / COCA.21504

习惯用语

adj.

a foregone conclusion
• 预料中的必然结局
  if you say that sth is a foregone conclusion , you mean that it is a result that is certain to happen

柯林斯词典

• 
  Foregoneis the past participle offorego.
• PHRASE 注定的结论;预料之中的必然结果
  If you say that a particular result isa foregone conclusion, you mean you are certain that it will happen.
  1. Most voters believe the result is a foregone conclusion...
     多数投票者认为这个结果是意料之中的。
  2. It's almost a foregone conclusion that you'll get what you want.
     你将得到你想要的，这几乎是确定无疑的。

英英释义

adj

• well in the past
  1. bygone days
  2. dreams of foregone times
  3. sweet memories of gone summers
  4. relics of a departed era
  Synonym:bygonebypastdepartedgone

双语例句

• The outcome is a foregone conclusion.
  大局已定。
• The outcome of both votes was assumed to be a foregone conclusion.
  两次投票的结果被认为是早成定局的事。
• The results of the general election next week now seem like a foregone conclusion.
  下周大选的结果似乎现在就已成定局了。
• Every decision means loss as well as gain& possibilities foregone as well as possibilities embraced.
  每个决定都会有得有失&你放弃一些机会的同时也抓住了另外一些。
• This outcome is hardly a foregone conclusion.
  这样的结果并不是未卜先知。
• A severe debt write-off by Greece and Portugal is a foregone conclusion; and in my view both countries would be better off without the euro.
  希腊和葡萄牙大笔勾销债务是预料中的必然结局；在我看来，如果退出欧元区，两国的境况将会更好。
• The measurements of the costs of health impairing pollution depends on the foregone earnings from increased morbidity and mortality.
  妨害健康之污染其成本的计量取决于因发病率和死亡率增高而损失的工资收入。
• It's almost a foregone conclusion that you'll get what you want.
  你将得到你想要的，这几乎是确定无疑的。
• A machine cannot and is unable to help the human reader& an important opportunity foregone.
  但机器则不能且无法帮助人类读者&逝去的一个重要机遇。
• Subsidies under paragraph 1 shall include both budgetary outlays and revenue foregone by governments or their agents.
  第1款下的补贴应包括政府或其代理机构的预算支出和放弃的税收。