In charge of the flowers and shrubs, and watching the growth of all the dumb excellences everywhere to be seen, could not he, like the man with the pruning-knife in his mouth, forego the days of his troubled life--forego them forgetting and forgotten? But by-and-by his Jewish nature began to stir within him. The charm might be sufficient for some people. Of what kind were they? Love is delightful--ah! how pleasant as a successor to wretchedness like his. But was it all there was of life? There was an unlikeness between him and those who buried themselves contentedly here.英文原著 · 《Ben-Hur》
"Those letters I ask you, my lord, to return." . Humph! Letters! the matter is worse than I guess'd; I have my misgivings--
ALFRED. Well, read out the rest, And advise. Where was I? (continues.) "Miss Darcy, perchance, Will forego one brief page from the summer romance Of her courtship." . a romance, for my part, I'd forego every page of, and not break my heart!英文原著 · 《Lucile》
I have done it, and if I hadn't been a fool and a coward I might have done it a week ago, and spared myself a good deal of delicious torment. I have just given two hours to a sketch of Addison's Walk and carried it to aunt Celia at the Mitre. Object, to find out whether they make a long stay in London (our next point), and if so where. It seems they go directly through. I said in the course of conversation, "So Miss Schuyler is willing to forego a London season? Marvelous self-denial!"英文原著 · 《A Cathedral Courtship》
Where we went, we twain, in time foregone,
Forth by land and sea, and cared not whether,
If I go again, I go alone.英文原著 · 《A Century of Roundels》
I recollect hardly one instance of a return to honest pursuits, and habits of industry, where this miserable perversion of our noblest and peculiar faculty was not previously conquered. Those persons to whom the inspection and management of our numerous and extensive prisons in England are committed will perform a service to society by attending to the foregoing observation. Let us always keep in view, that punishment, when not directed to promote reformation, is arbitrary, and unauthorised.英文原著 · 《A Complete Account of the Settlement》
"If 'twere not love," she cried--"if 'twere but ambition, I could defy it to the last; but 'tis love--love--love, and it will kill me to forego it."英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
And to prove it, we're gonna forego our usual fee, and return to you the money you've already paid.美剧 · 《Suits》
We have a lot of testimony focusing on whether there was a consensual act between Mr. McKeon and my client, but if Mr. McKeon is willing to stipulate there was, indeed, a consensual sexual act, we would forego this testimony.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
The Democratic Committee stands beside you, so isn't that a foregone conclusion?美剧 · 《The Good Wife》