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The forefront is the leading, most important, or most noticed position - being 'at the forefront' of something means you're right at the front of it, among the first and most advanced. It's mostly used about progress, research, or attention, not physical position: 'at the forefront of medical research' means leading the way in that field.
最前線;領先地位
組成fore- (front, before) + front
同家族的字
- frontforefront is built directly from 'front', with 'fore-' added for emphasis
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
forefrontnoun/ˈfɔːfɹʌnt/
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The leading position or edge.
- That laboratory researches topics at the forefront of technology.
- Today, the pocket calculator is a dying product, a casualty of digitization, which has been relegated to the role of a graphic icon on phone and computer screens rather than an object in its own right, but back in the early 1970s, it was at the forefront of consumer technology.
forefrontverb/ˈfɔːfɹʌnt/
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To bring to the forefront; to emphasize, or focus on.
- The impact of austerity and economic circumstances were forefronted in the more economically deprived countries of the partner countries (BG, GR) and seen as producing a fateful impact on access to diet and healthy lifestyle options.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。