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forswear(forswore pa.t.;forsworn pa. p.) vt.
1.renounce upon oath,swear to give up,swear to ab-andon 发誓与…断绝关系，发誓放弃，发誓抛弃。
△Tw.3.4.278 (252): “or forswear to wear iron about you.” 否则你只有发誓永不带剑。
△1H .IV.2.2.17 (15): “I have forsworn his company hourly any time this two andtwenty years,and yet I am bewitched with the rogue’scompany.”这二十二年以来，我时时都在发誓和他断绝来往，可还是中了魔似的离不开这个坏蛋。
△3H.VI.1.1. 251: “Thenorthern lords,that have forsworn thy colours,/ Willfollow mine if once they see them spread；” (thenorthern lords: Northumberland,Westmoreland,andClifford) 发誓与你的旗帜断绝关系的北方诸贵族一旦看见我的旗帜飘扬，一定要来追随我。
forswear arms: renounce the profession of arms 发誓抛弃武器，洗手不干舞刀弄剑这一行。
△1H.IV.1. 2. 206(184):“and for the third,if he fight longer than hesees reason,I’ll forswear arms.”至于第三个人，如果他见势不妙还肯多斗一会儿的话，我就从此洗手不干舞刀弄剑这一行。
2. renounce,give up,abandon 放弃，与…断绝关系，抛弃。
△2H.IV.2.4.218 (204):“I’ll forswear keeping houseafore I’ll be in these tirrits and frights.”我再不开这个酒店了，我可受不了这种恐怖和惊吓。
△Gent. 3. 1. 213:“Hathshe forsworn me?”她把我遗弃了吗？
△Shr.4. 2. 26:“Forswear Bianca and her love for ever.”永久放弃比恩卡和对她的这一段痴情。
△As. 3. 2. 446 (419): “to for-swear the full stream of the world，”抛弃了整个的人世生活，看破红尘。
△Tw.1.3. 95 (88):“An I thought that,I'd forswear it.” i.e. I would not eat it any more. 我要早知道，我就把它戒了。
△Oth. 4.2.159: “Comfort for-swear me!”愿我永远不得快乐！
△3H.VI.3.2. 153:“Why,Love forswore me in my mother’s womb；”嘿，我在娘胎里的时候，爱神就把我抛弃了。
3. have nothing to do with 不跟…来往。
△As.3.2.443(416): “then forswear him；”有时不理他。
4. swear to refuse发誓拒绝。
△Rom.1.1.229 (223):“She hath forsworn to love,and in that vow / Do Ilive dead that live to tell it now.”i.e. She has swornan oath not to love. and in that promise I live like adead man who lives only to tell it now. 她已经发誓永不恋爱，为了这一誓言，我虽然活着讲话，实在和死去一般。
5. deny on oath,deny with a false oath发誓否认，用一个假誓否认。
△1H.IV.5.2.36:“I told him gently of ourgrievances,/ Of his oath-breaking,which he mendedthus. / By now forswearing that he is forsworn. ”我温和地告诉他我们的委屈以及他的背誓，他这样弥补他的过错：竟然发誓否认他自己曾经违背过誓言。
△Com.5.1.11:“Whichhe forswore most monstrously to have.”他绝口否认把它拿去。
～ vb.refl. swear falsely,perjure oneself使发假誓，使违背（自己的）誓言。
△Wiv.4. 5. 104(101):“I never pros-pered since I forswore myself at primero.”我自从那次打牌赖了赌账之后，就一直没有交过好运。
△Gent.2.5.3: “Forswear not thyself,sweet youth，”你不要发伪誓，好孩子。
△3H.VI.5.5.75:“Ay,but thou usest to forswearthyself.”不错，但是你习惯于发假誓。
～ vi. swear falsely,commit perjury发假誓，违背誓言。
△Gent.2.6.6:“Love bade me swear,and Love bidsme forswear.”爱情叫我发誓，爱情又叫我违背誓言。 forswear[fɔ:ˈswɛə]v. 舍弃，放弃，作伪证
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