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 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。
• 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 forbear from take any further action.
  他克制自己不采取任何进一步的行动。
• The consumption wants to know forbear;
  消费要知所节制；
• Ay me! but yet thou might'st my seat forbear.
  鸠占鹊巢抢我座不可以。
• Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
  6我虽说话，忧愁仍不得消解。我虽停住不说，忧愁就离开我吗。22那少年人听见这话，就忧忧愁愁的走了。因为他的产业很多。
• The wounded man could not forbear to cry out.
  受伤的人忍不住哭起来。
• 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。
• 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。
• For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
  因为我必说实话。只是我禁止不说，恐怕有人把我看高了，过于他在我身上所看见所听见的。