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单词 forth
释义
forth
(fɔːʳθ )
In addition to the uses shown below, forth is also used in the phrasal verbs 'put forth' and 'set forth'.
1. adverb [ADVERB after verb]
When someone goes forth from a place, they leave it. [literary]
Go forth into the desert.
I came forth to take the air.
Synonyms: forward, out, away, ahead  
2. adverb [ADVERB after verb]
If one thing brings forth another, the first thing produces the second. [literary]
Nature herself brings forth new forms of life.
My reflections brought forth no conclusion.
3. adverb [ADVERB after verb]
When someone or something is brought forth, they are brought to a place or moved into a position where people can see them. [literary]
Pilate ordered Jesus to be brought forth.
He brought forth a small gold amulet from beneath his robe.
Synonyms: out, into the open, out of concealment  
4. back and forth phrase B2
If someone moves back and forth, they repeatedly move in one direction and then in the opposite direction.
He paced back and forth.
Two boys were in the street, tossing a baseball back and forth.
5. to hold forth phrase
If you hold forth on a subject, you speak confidently and for a long time about it, especially to a group of people.
Barry was holding forth on politics.
Synonyms: speak, go on, discourse, lecture  
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Collocations:
gush forth
Her words gush forth, full of confidences, laughter and, occasionally, tears.
Times, Sunday Times
Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
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The fare, five kopecks, stayed the same for fifty years, and the coins gushed forth with a pleasing ka-ching.
The Times Literary Supplement
I thought blood was gushing forth.
Christianity Today
In this postseason, finally free of blister and elbow problems, it all gushed forth.
Globe and Mail
pour forth
The words will pour forth in a torrent.
Christianity Today
Paint on the wall behind him seems to pour forth from his head like fire.
The Times Literary Supplement
He may have had a fiction gap, but the nonfiction has continued to pour forth.
Times, Sunday Times
But the lucky thing was you knew when the rage was about to pour forth, because she would start to smell weird.
Times, Sunday Times
On brass, piano and woodwind, the actors pour forth a welter of emotion in riotous sound.
Times, Sunday Times
spew forth
I could feel my mind grinding through the events of the day, chaotically analysing, spewing forth senseless questions, spurious connections.
Hugo Wilcken THE EXECUTION (2002)
Her gob was certainly open, but there was just noise spewing forth.
The Sun (2009)
The silly side of me pictures a rabid white foam spewing forth when I speak.
Goshgarian, Gary Exploring language (6th edn) (1995)
spill forth
It was a moment of high drama as plastic bags with old labels spilt forth.
Times, Sunday Times
Then, as now, platitudes spilled forth from top brass and politicians.
The Sun
The young man's lips spilled forth words that were realistic without being dour, full of sly humour and beautifully observed detail.
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spring forth
This leaves room for many ministries to spring forth from one need.
Christianity Today
When you unscrew the lids, those smells spring forth.
Times, Sunday Times
In the apse six ribs, resting on a clustered column, spring forth from the keystone.
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Such experiences are reduced to a seed form, to spring forth again into existence, becoming memories or patterns of behavior.
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From this point, he stated, doubts began to spring forth unrelentingly.
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venture forth
It was one of those days on which the sea co-operated with those who wish to venture forth on it.
Times, Sunday Times
We venture forth in order to secure provisions and reinforcements for our castles.
Times, Sunday Times
A marginally flintier personality has started to venture forth, one more jealous of the nation's (empty) coffers.
Times,Sunday Times
Yet now events demand you venture forth with insufficient or unreliable facts yourself.
Times, Sunday Times
His encouragement, his wisdom, and his incredible poems fired up his audiences to venture forth as poets.
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