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 foray ['fɔre]   添加此单词到默认生词本
vi. 侵略, 劫掠, 袭击

n. 侵掠, 侵略, 攻击


  1. An actor's foray into politics.
    一演员对政治的尝试性介入
  2. He might foray our lands.
    他可能会夺占我们的田地。
  3. So why does Shih Ming-deh again want to foray into political action?
    那为何施明德突然要再次付诸政治行动呢？


foray
[ noun ]
  1. a sudden short attack

    2. <noun.act>
  2. an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence)

    3. <noun.act>
    scientists' forays into politics
[ verb ]
  1. steal goods; take as spoils

    2. <verb.possession> despoil loot pillage plunder ransack reave rifle strip
    During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners
  2. briefly enter enemy territory

    3. <verb.contact>


Foray \For"ay\ (f[o^]r"[asl] or f[-o]*r[=a]"; 277), n. [Another
form of forahe. Cf. {Forray}.]
A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any
irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid. --Spenser.

The huge Earl Doorm, . . .
Bound on a foray, rolling eyes of prey. --Tennyson.


Foray \For"ay\, v. t.
To pillage; to ravage.

He might foray our lands. --Sir W.
Scott.

  1. After the shock of a civil war or large-scale repression, a move to reclaim strategic depth in Central Europe might not seem especially daunting, and ruined oil and coal production might be the cause of a foray south.
  2. Top Bush strategists stalked reporters on Quayle's campaign plane as the Indiana senator made his first foray into Texas, the state where Bentsen was born and Bush had made his home.
  3. They insist they have learned some hard lessons from the company's disastrous 1983 foray into PCs with overpriced computers that weren't compatible with emerging standards.
  4. Republican vice presidential candidate Dan Quayle was making his first foray into Texas, with stops in Houston and El Paso.
  5. The government probably wouldn't give in readily to a hostile foray by Ford, however.
  6. "We will make this much better than Mr. Isutani's ownership," said Masatsugu Takabayashi, president of Taiheiyo, which is making its first investment foray into the troubled U.S. real estate market.
  7. But to carp is unworthy, for any such deficiency is immediately obviated by a short foray into the city. The show itself is the thing, and the scale and physical power of it are set from the very start.
  8. Today, Salomon has little to show from its foray into LBOs and, indeed, might have done better if it had used the LBO money to trade bonds.
  9. His most recent foray into carpentry was about a year ago when he built a bed for his 3-year-old son, Malcolm.
  10. The Horn & Hardart investment represents the first major foray outside the natural resources field for NAR, which beat out two other investor groups.
  11. Bush campaigned in New York and New Jersey and planned a Monday foray into Connecticut, Maine and Vermont.
  12. But this time the company's pursuit of things British is less whimsical and prospectively more profitable than its foray into publishing.
  13. BCE also abandoned a disastrous foray into the real estate business earlier this year when it wrote off its stake in BCE Development Corp.
  14. Bush flew to this resort town from Miami, where he made a one-day campaign foray in behalf of Republican congressional candidate Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who is vying against Democrat Gerald Richman to succeed the late Democratic Rep. Claude Pepper.
  15. But today, Mr. Beckett has misgivings about his foray into journalism.
  16. Nevertheless, the foray into Iranian territory is an important symbolic victory for the mujahedeen, which formed its army only a year ago.
  17. Barnett Banks of Florida Inc. said it received final regulatory clearance to acquire First City Bancorp, based in Marietta, Ga., its first foray into regional interstate banking.
  18. The acquisition marks First Commercial's first foray into the northwestern Arkansas market.
  19. The creation of the unit trusts, which are similar to mutual funds, will mark state-owned Bank of China's first major foray into investment management.
  20. The opening of the Nordstrom store at the Garden State Plaza shopping mall in Paramus, N.J., marks the retailer's first foray into the fiercely competitive Northeast.
  21. Exploiting these opportunities will require patience, but quick-fix efforts at diversification can easily end in tears, as Abbey National's humiliating foray into French commercial lending shows.
  22. Revco marked the investment banking firm's initial foray into the big leagues of the lucrative buy-out game.
  23. Both were to debut Thursday night, joining a host of other Dukakis ads in the campaign's largest advertising foray to date.
  24. They have persisted for many months now - and every time the clouds start to lift, a new storm seems to come along. To recap, back in the 1980s WMC made a disastrous foray in to the North American mining sector.
  25. Aetna Life & Casualty Co. became a casualty itself when it made its first foray into network television in May with "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" on CBS.
  26. Hospital Corp. of America has ended its main foray into insurance (it still has a passive interest in an insurer), and last month it sold 104 of its hospitals to focus on running the other 132 more proficiently.
  27. But some bankers and analysts say this foray not only is in character for NCNB, but also isn't so far-fetched.
  28. Aside from the BP foray, he adds, the Kuwaitis generally have been passive, long-term investors.
  29. And, using Japan's technological skill for a foray into fundamental research, they are trying to automate the attempt to map human genes.
  30. Southeast's own foreign foray was no picnic, either; in 1987, the bank took a $95.5 million loan-loss provision on Latin American loans.
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