foray
foray 英 [ˈfɒreɪ] 美 [ˈfɔreɪ]
n. 涉足，初次尝试；突袭；侵略；攻击 vi. 袭击 vt. 劫掠
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- Foray means brief excursion. If you're in the army, that's a literal excursion into enemy territory. For the rest of us, it means trying something out. "My foray into rugby ended with my spending a week in the hospital."
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- n. 涉足，初次尝试；突袭；侵略；攻击
- vi. 袭击
- vt. 劫掠
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1. This foray on to the traditional turf of the Times seems to be working: the Journal's circulation is rising.
这一向纽约时报的传统报道领域突袭的策略似乎开始奏效:华尔街日报的发行量在上升。
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2. Will the American taxpayer—and voter—countenance yet another American land-based foray into the Arab Middle East?
美国纳税人——和选民——会支持另一次美国在阿拉伯中东地区的地面突袭吗？
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3. Though a federal cap-and-trade system for carbon would largely be a foray into the unknown, we can examine how the idea is working in the states, many of which are far ahead of Washington.
尽管联邦的碳排放总量管制与排放交易系统可能会是一个冒险，但我们可以考察一下这一理念在各州是如何发挥作用的，有很多州的作法已经遥遥领先于华盛顿。
- foray (n.) late 14c., "predatory incursion," Scottish, from the verb (14c.), perhaps a back-formation of Middle English forreyer "raider, forager" (mid-14c.), from Old French forrier, from forrer "to forage," from forrage "fodder; foraging; pillaging, looting" (see forage (n.)). Disused by 18c.; revived by Scott. As a verb from 14c.
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