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

• I forbear to tell his name.
  我不愿说出他的名字。
• 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。
• My forbear was unremarkable, he says, a strange opening to a most remarkable tale.
  我的先祖是个普通人，他说，给这个颇具传奇的故事开了个奇怪的开场白。
• I forbore to comment on this
  我克制自己对此不予置评。
• Mature woman would forbear their own curiosity to preserve the family's integrity and spiritual calmness.
  成熟的女人会隐忍自己的好奇心保全家庭的完整和精神层面的平静。
• Can't forbear criticizing their ineptitude.
  禁不住要批评他们的笨拙。
• Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.
  但你多年宽容他们，又用你的灵藉众先知劝戒他们，他们仍不听从，所以你将他们交在列国之民的手中。
• He could not forbear from expressing his disagreement.
  他忍不住要表达不同意见。
• I think you must have remarked that I could not forbear a tribute to those charms when I put up the steps of the hackney-coach.
  我想，你一定注意到，当我把出租马车的踏板收起来的时候，我禁不住赞美起你的魅力来。
• 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！