1.foraging n.覓食(the act of searching for food and provisions)
聯想記憶:來自forage(n.飼料;v.搜尋)
例:They cannot be replenished through foraging.
2.forecast v./n.預測,預報(to foretell)
詞根記憶:fore(預先)+cast(計算)--預先計算出--預測,預報
例:Weather forecasts are more detailed today than they were 36 years ago.//People could not forecast the weather with real precision.
派生詞:forecaster(n.預報員)
3.foreclosure n.取消抵押品贖回權(a legal proceeding that bars or extinguishes a mortgagor's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate)
詞根記憶:fore(預先)+closure(關閉)葉預先關閉了--取消抵押品贖回權
例:Foreclosures on these types of loans could double over the next three years.
同根詞:disclosure(n.公開;揭發)
4.foresee v.預見(to see or know beforehand)
詞根記憶:fore(預先)+see(看見)--預先看見--預見
例:How comparable worth will affect the hierarchy of wages is difficult to foresee.
5.foreseeable adj.可預知的(being such as may be reasonably anticipated);能預測的
詞根記憶:fore(預先)+see(看見)+able(有能力的)--有能力預先看見的--可預知的
例:Teruvia's total rice acreage will not be expanded in the foreseeable future, nor will rice yields per acre increase appreciably.
6.foreshadow v.成為先兆,預示( to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand)
詞根記憶:fore(預先)+shadow(影子)--影子先來--預示
例:Given this failure, Duverger's study foreshadowed the enduring limitations of the behavioralist approach to the multinational study of women's political participation.
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss.
生活的悲劇不在于人們受到多少苦,而在于人們錯過了什么。
——英國散文家、歷史學家卡萊爾(Thomas Carlyle, British essayist and historian)