forswear

英 [fɔːˈsweə(r)]

美 [fɔːrˈswer]

v.  放弃; 发誓戒除

现在分词：forswearing　过去式：forswore　第三人称单数：forswears　过去分词：forsworn　

GRE

BNC.44466 / COCA.36477

牛津词典

verb

• 放弃；发誓戒除
  to stop doing or using sth; to make a promise that you will stop doing or using sth
  1. The group forswears all worldly possessions.
     这个团体放弃一切尘世财物。
  2. The country has not forsworn the use of chemical weapons.
     该国并未保证禁用化学武器。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 发誓抛弃;承诺放弃
  If youforswearsomething, you promise that you will stop doing it, having it, or using it.
  1. The party was offered a share of government if it forswore violence.
     该党如果宣誓放弃暴力就可以参与执政。

英英释义

verb

• formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
  1. He retracted his earlier statements about his religion
  2. She abjured her beliefs
  Synonym:abjurerecantretractresile

双语例句

• The priests of some religions must forswear wealth and marriage.
  有些宗教的祭司必须宣誓放弃财富和婚姻。
• The government is surely strong enough to forswear the facile popularity that others seek when hammering a foreign firm.
  在打击外国公司时，印度政府当然已足够强大，有资本抛弃其他国家追求的那种肤浅的拥戴。
• Accuse some innocent and forswear myself.
  让某个无辜的人背黑锅啦。
• Without serious global co-ordination, in which the US and Europe forswear protectionism in exchange for significant appreciation of undervalued currencies, rising tariffs appear inevitable.
  如果没有真诚的全球协作美国和欧洲放弃保护主义，以换取被低估货币的大幅升值关税的不断提高似乎无可避免。
• The solution, of course, is not to forswear financial technology but to develop more advanced technology – so advanced that it becomes foolproof and invisible to the human operator.
  当然，解决之道并非戒掉金融技术，而是开发出更加先进的技术&先进到简单明了，不出差错，让人类操作者驾驭自如。
• You must tell the truth to the judge, because if you forswear yourself you could go to prison.
  你必须向法官说老实话，因为你如果作伪证就可能坐牢。
• The young senator pledged to forswear private money in the general election if his opponent did likewise.
  这名年轻的参议员当时承诺，如果他的对手在总统大选中承诺放弃私人捐助，他也会照做。
• Ignoring their city's renowned dustiness, Beijingers adore wearing white, and winter is no time to forswear it.
  不理睬他们城市著名的尘土，北京人爱穿白色，连冬天的时候也一样。
• The party was offered a share of government if it forswore violence.
  该党如果宣誓放弃暴力就可以参与执政。
• Oath of abjuration Some priests have to forswear marriage.
  有些祭司必须宣誓放弃婚姻。