forgo是什么意思，forgo怎么用
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📰 外刊例句
Governments will not want to forgo its benefits. 政府不会想放弃自己的利益。
—— 《经济学人》
—— 《时代周刊》
📖 基本释义
[verb] omit or decline to take (something pleasant or valuable)
[动词] 未做或拒绝接受（令人愉快或有价值的事物）
💡 深入解读
Forgo 是一个只比熟词 forgot 少了末尾字母 t 的单词，同时也与小站（微信公众号：田间小站）之前推送过的forge只隔最后一个字母不同。该词源自古英语forgan（戒绝、未做、忽略），相应也是用来表示“放弃、摒弃、弃绝”，常作正式用语使用，主要指决定不去做自己想做的事或拒绝接受令人愉快或有价值的东西，特别是为了原则、权宜之计或他人的福利等而放弃自己已经享受、沉迷或者触手可及的事物，
比如：
The weary traveller roamed about the town trying to find a suitable hotel. He forwent his holiday in order to finish a job.那个疲惫不堪的旅人在城里四处寻觅，想找一家合适的旅馆。他为了完成一项工作而放弃了他的假期。
值得注意的是， forgo 有时也拼作 forego ，不过后者并不太常见。
📚 名著用例
The beautiful weather seemed to mock them; Harry could imagine how it would have been if Dumbledore had not died, and they had had this time together at the very end of the year, Ginny's examinations finished, the pressure of homework lifted...and hour by hour, he put off saying the thing that he knew he must say, doing what he knew was right to do, because it was too hard to forgo his best source of comfort. 阳光明媚的天气似乎在嘲弄他们。哈利不禁想象，如果邓布利多没死该有多好。现在到了年末，金妮的考试已经结束，作业的压力减轻了，他们整天泡在一起……他知道自己必须说什么和应该做什么，但他一小时一小时地往后拖延，因为他实在舍不得放弃最能给他带来慰藉的东西。
— 出自《英国作家J·K·罗琳的奇幻小说《哈利·波特》系列的第六本《哈利·波特与混血王子》（ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ）。》
🔍 同近义词
- eschew: deliberately avoid using; abstain from
- relinquish: voluntarily cease to keep or claim; give up
- renounce: refuse or resign a right or position, especially one as an heir or trustee
