词汇 | fore |
释义 | foreWord family adjectiveforemostforenounforebittforebitter fore1 /fɔː $ fɔːr/ noun → for, four to the fore IMPORTANTto or in a position of importance or influence 变得重要;突出 Environmental issues came to the fore in the 1980s. 20世纪80年代,环境问题成了热点。 The case brought to the fore a lot of racial tensions. 这起案件凸显出诸多种族矛盾。 Examples from the Corpus brought to the fore• During these years of continual warfare, religious questions were seldom if ever brought to the fore.• On the contrary, it brought to the fore her inner resilience. Examples from the Corpus fore• One of them assured us that as he went from fore to aft his shoes were well-nigh buried in blood and brains.• Muhammad Ali and Pelé are at the fore of the other.• Automatically, women's bodies are again to the fore.• The 1980s were a decade in which many social issues came to the fore.• No new politician has come to the fore, so others vie to fill the vacuum.• Passive smoking has come to the fore.• Instead, it was a real middle class, of diverse origins, pushed to the fore by changing conditions.• When they returned, thousands awaited them at the airport with Yamamoto to the fore. fore2 adjectiveadj [only before noun] technical FRONTthe fore parts of a ship, plane, or animal are the parts at the front 〔船、飞机或动物〕前部的 —fore adverbadv Examples from the Corpus fore• Three hundred metres from the end of the race, the horse stumbled and fractured its right fore cannon bone.• The fore part of the carcass provides the picnic shoulder and the Boston butt. fore- /fɔː $ fɔːr/ prefix 1 BEFOREbefore 预先;先,前 The enemy had been forewarned. → forewarned is forearmed at forewarn(2) 敌人已事先得到警告。 2 FRONTplaced at the front (在…)前面的 her forenames 她的名字 a horse’s forelegs 马的前腿 3 FRONTthe front part of something 〔某物的〕前部 his forehead 他的前额 Examples from the Corpus fore-• forethought• his strong forearms• in the foreground• the factory foreman• to forewarn someone Old English fore “before, previously” fore1 (1600-1700) → FORE2 fore2 (1400-1500) fore “before”; → FORE- |
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