endeavouring

英 [ɪnˈdevərɪŋ]

美 [ɪnˈdevərɪŋ]

v.  努力; 尽力; 竭力
endeavour的现在分词

柯林斯词典

in AM, use 美国英语用 endeavor


• VERB 努力;尽力
  If youendeavour todo something, you try very hard to do it.
  1. I will endeavour to arrange it...
     我会尽力安排。
  2. They are endeavouring to protect trade union rights.
     他们在竭力捍卫工会的权利。
• N-VAR (尤指新的或创造性事物的)努力，尝试
  Anendeavouris an attempt to do something, especially something new or original.
  1. His first endeavours in the field were wedding films.
     他初涉这个领域时做的是婚礼摄影。
  2. ...the benefits of investment in scientific endeavour.
     在科学领域投资的收益

双语例句

• "Very agreeable indeed," she replied, vainly endeavouring to hide a great yawn.
  “的确很愉快，”莫兰小姐答道，尽管想憋住，但还是打了个大呵欠。
• It struck me soon, however, there would be more sense in endeavouring to repair some of his wrongs than shedding tears over them: I got up and walked into the court to seek him.
  然而，很快我就明白过来，与其为他们流泪，不如帮他改掉一些坏毛病。我站起身来，到院子里去找希斯克利夫。
• I have been endeavouring to utterly crack English everyday. I hope I am gonna make it in the coming year.
  我一直在尽全力来彻底攻克英语，我希望可以在明年可以彻底实现。
• Catherine frowned, and retreated to the window-seat chewing her lip, and endeavouring, by humming an eccentric tune, to conceal a growing tendency to sob.
  凯瑟琳皱眉了，退到窗前的座位上，咬着她的嘴唇，试着哼起怪调儿来掩盖越来越想哭的趋势。
• They are endeavouring to protect trade union rights.
  他们在竭力捍卫工会的权利。
• Engineers are therefore endeavouring to redesign transistors yet again, so that Dr Moore's prediction can remain true a little longer.
  因此电子工程师们必须重新设计晶体管，这样也许能使摩尔定律不那么快失效。
• Before this world-old proposition we stand, serious, interested, confused; endeavouring to evolve the true theory of morals& the true answer to what is right.
  我们面对着这个古老的问题认真思索，既感兴趣又觉困惑，努力想找出道德的真谛，寻求正确行为的真正答案。
• It's only a week till the elections, so the candidates are endeavouring to whip up some support.
  距选举只有一周了，因此竞选者正在努力激起一些人的支持。
• "Merely to the illustration of your character," said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity." I am trying to make it out. "
  她竭力装出若无其事的神气说：“只不过为了要解释解释你的性格罢了，我想要把你的性格弄个明白。”
• You are endeavouring to disarm me by reason, and to convince me against my will.
  你是在设法说服我，让我违心地接受你的看法。