0 to be unable to remember a fact, something that happened, or how to do something -- 忘記,遺忘
This is where we keep all the books, not forgetting the magazines and newspapers. 這是我們放書的地方,包括雜誌和報紙。
I never forget a face (= I'm good at remembering people). 我記人很在行。
[ + question word ] I've forgotten what you do next/how to do it. 我忘了你下一步做甚麽/怎麽做。
[ + -ing verb ] She would never forget seeing the Himalayas for the first time. 她永遠也不會忘記第一次看到喜馬拉雅山時的情景。
I'm sorry, I was forgetting (= I had forgotten) (that) you would be away in August. 抱歉,我忘了你八月不在。
[ + (that) ] We had forgotten (that) she doesn't come on Thursdays. 我們都忘了,她星期四都是不來的。
I completely forgot about Jenny's party. 我完全忘記了珍妮的派對。
Let me write down that date before I forget it. 在我忘記之前,讓我把日期寫下來吧。
1 to not remember to do something -- 忘記做
2 to not bring something with you because you did not remember it -- 忘記帶
I forgot my keys. 我忘了帶鎖匙。
4 to act in a socially unacceptable way because you have lost control of your emotions -- 舉止不得體,失態
An elderly woman, aged 72 years, had clearly forgotten that the practice was nurse-led.
But he forgets that almost all these landscapes are pictured after a code that was produced by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
It is simply the forgetful functor that forgets about the structure of families.
At the same time it should not be forgotten that these statements are only half the story.
She does have a point when she stresses that 'the flexibility built into the original "massive retaliation" doctrine' (p. 272) was soon forgotten.
When one sees the great and glorious fields of ice and snow one soon forgets the discomfort one have to put up with.
At the least, the par tial exhumation demonstrates that the ancestor buried therein had not been forgotten.
But to look into his countenance was to forget all this.