| 釋義 |
forestallvt.
1. anticipate,prevent 搶先，阻止。
△Ham.3.3. 48:“And what’s in prayer but this twofold force,/ To beforestalled ere we come to fall,/Or pardoned beingdown?”i.e.to be prevented from falling into tempta-tion,or forgiven if we have fallen (into temptation)禱告不過有這兩重作用，或者預先防止我們墮落，或者失足后得到赦宥，此外還有什么意義？
△Ham.5.2.230 (217): “I willforestall their repair hither，”我可以先去阻止他們別來。
△L.L.L.5.2.473 (472): “and might not you / Fore-stall our sport,to make us thus untrue?”會不會就是你抵制了我們的把戲，使我們言而無信？
2. prevent by in terruption 打斷。
△2H.IV.4.5.137(138): “But for my tears,/ The moist impedimentsunto my speech,/ I had forestalled this dear and deeprebuke / Ere you with grief had spoke，”如果不是我的淚水阻擋住我無法開口，我決不會一直聽你悲痛地講到這里，早就把你這番嚴厲而痛切的斥責打斷了。 forestall[f?:?st?:l]v. 先發(fā)制人，預防，阻止，壟斷
‖ forestall the enemy 先發(fā)制人
forestall trouble 防止事故 |