| 单词 | forget |
| 释义 | forget (fəʳget ) Word forms: forgets , forgetting , forgot , forgotten 1. verb B1 If you forget something or forget how to do something, you cannot think of it or think how to do it, although you knew it or knew how to do it in the past. Sometimes I improvise and change the words because I forget them. [VERB noun] She forgot where she left the car and it took us two days to find it. [VERB wh] Synonyms: fail to remember, not remember, not recollect, let slip from the memory 2. verb B1 If you forget something or forget to do it, you fail to think about it or fail to remember to do it, for example because you are thinking about other things. She never forgets her daddy's birthday. [VERB noun] She forgot to lock her door one day and two men got in. [VERB to-infinitive] Don't forget that all dogs need a supply of fresh water to drink. [VERB that] She forgot about everything but the sun and the wind and the salt spray. [VERB + about] Synonyms: neglect, overlook, omit, not remember 3. verb A2 If you forget something that you had intended to bring with you, you do not bring it because you did not think about it at the right time. Once when we were going to Paris, I forgot my passport. [VERB noun] 4. verb B1 If you forget something or someone, you deliberately put them out of your mind and do not think about them any more. I hope you will forget the bad experience you had today. [VERB noun] I can't forget what happened. [VERB noun] I found it very easy to forget about Sumner. [VERB + about] She tried to forget that sometimes she heard them quarrelling. [VERB that] Synonyms: dismiss from your mind, ignore, overlook, stop thinking about 5. verb If you forget yourself, you behave in an uncontrolled or unacceptable way, which is not the way in which you usually behave. He was so fascinated by her beauty that he forgot himself and leaned across to touch her. [VERB pronoun-reflexive] 6. forget it convention B2 You say ' Forget it' in reply to someone as a way of telling them not to worry or bother about something, or as an emphatic way of saying no to a suggestion. [spoken, formulae] 'Sorry, Liz. I think I was a bit rude to you.'—'Forget it, but don't do it again!' 'You want more?' roared Claire. 'Forget it, honey.' 7. not forgetting phrase You say not forgetting a particular thing or person when you want to include them in something that you have already talked about. The first thing is to support as many shows as one can, not forgetting the small local ones. Quotations: An elephant never forgets Collocations: forget a name I ought never to forget a name or mispronounce a word in the company of the lexicographically elite. Christianity Today That moment when you forget the name of somebody you have just met happens to us all. Times, Sunday Times He would forget your name or simply mix names up. Times,Sunday Times We all forget a name, a date, or turn left instead of right or repeat ourselves. The Sun Even if an interview panel forget your name, they'll remember your outfit. The Sun Remember the formula and you need never forget a password again. The Sun This worked well, until you forgot the password. Times, Sunday Times The question and answer are then used to identify customers who have forgotten their password. Times, Sunday Times Musicians forget that lesson at their peril. Times, Sunday Times Neither as prince nor as king did he ever forget his lesson. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Yet for all the hand-wringing that followed that collapse in 1995, banks and regulators seem to have forgotten the lessons. Times, Sunday Times Maybe we all forget the lessons of history too quickly. Times, Sunday Times And it isn't only the transport authorities taken by surprise: drivers also seem to have forgotten the lessons so recently learnt. Times, Sunday Times Forget the past and focus on what's next. Times, Sunday Times Her life was hard and will remain hard because she cannot forget her past. Christianity Today Perhaps he was self-medicating his mania or perhaps he was just drinking to forget his past. Times, Sunday Times You have no future so forget the past. The Times Literary Supplement He said that it was time to forget the past and set hatred aside. Times, Sunday Times A gritty modern-day classic that won't be forgotten quickly. The Sun Yet the violence that has occurred will not be forgotten quickly. Times, Sunday Times It had a small crowd, little meaning and was forgotten quickly. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 忘记 Japanese: 忘れる |
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