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1be at/in/to the forefront (of something)IMPORTANTto be in a leading position in an important activity that is trying to achieve something or develop new ideas 位于(某事物的)最前列,处于(某事物的)领先地位
The company has always been at the forefront of science and technology.
该公司在科学技术方面始终处于领先地位。
Prison conditions have been pushed to the forefront of public debate.
监狱条件问题已被推到公众讨论的风口浪尖。
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be at/in/to the forefront (of something)• The brothers were at the forefront of the story from the beginning.• He is at the forefront of the campaign to save the Elephant from extinction.• The company's main business is in sheetfedoffset and it is at the forefront of printing on recycledpaper.• Through their own efforts, deaf people were in the forefront of Glasgow society.• The mill was never to be in the forefront of industry.• You have to be willing to be in the forefront.• Meleager slays his uncles, who are in the forefront of those who would destroy Atalanta.• Everywhere in the world, it was women who were in the forefront of campaigning.
2be in/at/to the forefront of somebody’s mind/attention etcto be what someone is thinking about most, because it is very important to them 是某人首先考虑/注意到等的事情 → at the back of somebody’s mind
Fear of unemployment was at the forefront of everyone’s minds.
失业是每个人心中最大的担忧。
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be in/at/to the forefront of somebody’s mind/attention etc• This meant that fund-raising news and any other news about the deafwas in the forefront of everyone's attention.• The risks of a courtcase also have to be in the forefront of your mind.
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forefront• You have to be willing to be in the forefront.• Admittedly, few people think of pentecostalism as being in the forefront of feminism.• As always, Rodrigo del Bivar was in the forefront of the action.• It has the effect too of keeping to the forefront the meaningsrecognized by participants.
the forefrontVERB + THE FOREFRONT | PREPOSITION | PHRASESVERB + THE FOREFRONT➤remain at, remain in仍然在最前列◇Education remains at the forefront of the state's planning.教育在國家規劃中仍處於優先地位。➤keep sb/sth at, keep sb/sth in, keep sb/sth to (BrE) 使⋯保持在最前列▸➤come into, come to躍居最前列◇She came to the forefront as governor after the political change.這次政治變動後,她接任了州長這一要職。➤push sb/sth into, push sb/sth to, thrust sb/sth into, thrust sb/sth to將⋯推上最前列◇His new job thrust him to the forefront.新工作將他推上要職。➤bring sb/sth to, place sb/sth at, place sb/sth in, put sb/sth (back) at, put sb/sth (back) in把⋯帶到最前列;把⋯安置在最前列;把⋯放回最前列◇The new factory could put the town back at the forefront of steel manufacture.這家新工廠能使這個城鎮恢復煉鋼重鎮的地位。PREPOSITION➤at the forefront (of), in the forefront (of)處在(⋯的)最前列◇issues at the forefront of government policy政府政策中首當其衝的問題PHRASES➤at the forefront of sb's mind, in the forefront of sb's mind, to the forefront of sb's mind在某人頭腦裏佔據第一位◇This question remained at the forefront of her mind.這個問題仍舊是她最關切的。