to decide not to have or do sth that you would like to have or do
No one was prepared to forgo their lunch hour to attend the meeting.
谁都不愿意放弃午餐时间出席会议。
1.摒绝,放弃,对...断念;谢绝
2.〈古〉从...离开
1.to decide not to do or not to have something
1.The cause of the suicide was that the girl's head teacher asked her to forgo the college entrance exam.
自杀的原因是女孩的班主任让她放弃参加大学入学考试。
2.George Osborne, shadow chancellor, is refusing to rule out his own windfall tax and demanding that banks forgo their tax losses.
影子财相乔治-奥斯本（GeorgeOsborne）拒绝取消他自己提出暴利税方案，并要求银行放弃税损。
3.I admit I do not weigh the damage done to the environment when planning my breaks, and am not ready to forgo them.
我承认我在计划旅行时没有考虑对环境的危害，但也没打算放弃计划。
4.The day turned out overcast and windy, and secretly Hanfeng hoped that the wind would not die down, so they could forgo the romantic walk.
瀚峰私下希望风不要停下来，那样就不至于再去进行这浪漫的散步了。
5.Panama is one of only a few countries that recognize Taiwan and therefore forgo relations with its neighbor and traditional rival China.
巴拿马是少数承认台湾并抛弃与中国建立邦交的国家之一。
6.In exchange, workers would forgo cost-of-living increases that, until recently, had long been a way of life for Detroit's auto workers.
作为交换，工人要放弃增加生活费的要求。就在不久前，要求增加生活费一直是底特律汽车工人的一种生存方式。
7.But this time he would forgo the device of a fictional character with a right to his idiosyncracies.
但是这一次他塑造一个虚幻人物的特质，拥有怪癖的权利。
8.About all those, the last person who uttered silent implication to me was my departed mother, how can I forgo the long-cherished wish?
关于那一切，最后对我发出无言暗示的人是我已故的母亲，我怎么可能放弃夙愿呢？
9.For others, I imagine, a proposal is an unnecessary formality that's easy to forgo.
我猜，对于其他人来说，求婚只是个可有可无的形式，完全可以忽略。
10.But what would help me do that would be if my boss decided that he would rather forgo his giant salary for an awful lot longer.
但如果我的老板愿意放弃丰厚薪水的时间要长得多，那会更有说服力。