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

• The judge said he would forbear from sending her to prison, on condition that she promised not to steal again.
  法官说他可以不送她进监狱，条件是她必须保证以后不再偷窃。
• They all pinched me at once, and in a dreadfully expert way: screwing up such little pieces of my arms that I could hardly forbear crying out.
  他们一起来捏我，他们捏得很高明，把我胳膊上的肉一小片一小片地拧着，拧得我几乎叫出声来。
• Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
  避免走极端。容忍令人愤慨的伤害与中伤，只要你还认为它们是应得的。
• 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。
• Can't forbear criticizing their ineptitude.
  禁不住要批评他们的笨拙。
• The organisation that had undertaken this bogus survey I forbear from mentioning its name did not disguise that it had done so in order to draw attention to the problem of abuse of children.
  进行这项伪调查的组织（我不想说出它的名字），没有假装自己的目的是为了让公众关注虐童行为。
• Ay me! but yet thou might'st my seat forbear.
  鸠占鹊巢抢我座不可以。
• 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。
• I cannot forbear from expressing my opinion about your recent mistakes.
  对于你最近的一些错误我不能不表示我的意见。
• I forbear to tell his name.
  我不愿说出他的名字。