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A forge is a hot workshop where a heats metal until it's soft, then hammers it into shape - making things like horseshoes or swords; as a verb, 'to forge' metal means to shape it this way. Separately, 'to forge' a document, signature, or means to illegally copy or fake it in order to trick people. As an idiom, 'to forge ahead' means to keep moving forward steadily and with determination, even when progress is slow or difficult.
鍛造、打鐵(金屬)/偽造(文件、簽名)/穩步前進(forge ahead,片語)
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- forgerythe crime of forging something is named directly from this word
原始詞典資料11 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。
Forgename
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A surname from Old French.
forgenoun詞源 1/fɔːd͡ʒ/
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A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
- Close to the hump-backed bridge on the lane leading into the Hambleden Valley is a mid-19th-century smithy, its inside walls hung with tools of the blacksmith's trade, though decorative wrought-ironwork is now the main product from its glowing forge.
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A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
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The act of beating or working iron or steel.
- In the greater bodies the forge was easy.
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computingengineeringmathematicsA web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.
- If the project uses a forge like GitLab, GitHub, or BitBucket, it can be very easy to search all past commit logs […]
forgeverb詞源 2/fɔːd͡ʒ/
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artscraftsengineeringTo shape a metal by heating and hammering.
- On Mars's armor forged for proof eterne
- Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
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To form or create with concerted effort.
- The politician's recent actions are an effort to forge a relationship with undecided voters.
- Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use.
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To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
- He had to forge his ex-wife's signature. The jury learned the documents had been forged.
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To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
- That paltry story is untrue, / And forged to cheat such gulls as you.
forgeverb詞源 3/fɔːd͡ʒ/
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To move forward slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily, especially in the face of resistance or difficulty.
- The party of explorers forged through the thick underbrush.
- And off she [a ship] forged without a shock.
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To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.
- With seconds left in the race, the runner forged into first place.
- Let's forge past that runner on the inside.
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。