endeavoured

英 [ɪnˈdevəd]

美 [ɪnˈdevərd]

v.  努力; 尽力; 竭力
endeavour的过去分词和过去式

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

• They endeavoured to erect the territory into an amusement park
  他们努力将这一地区建成了游乐
• I have endeavoured to defend it from the point of view of the existing population, and I have shown-i hope with some effect-that their prosperity also is intimately bound up with the success of zionism.
  我也曾争取从巴勒斯坦现在的居民的角度来辩护，但愿我的话不无效果。我已经指出，他们的繁荣兴盛也是和犹太复国主义的成功息息相关的。
• Mr. Slope had endeavoured to strengthen his cause by calling Mr. Arabin an owl.
  斯洛普先生试图加强他的理由，称阿拉宾先生为一只猫头鹰。
• What they wanted however of the sublime they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole;
  他们努力通过夸张得手法填补他们所缺乏的崇高性；
• They endeavoured to present the mixed economy us an ideal.
  他们力图把多体制混合经济说成是一种理想的经济。
• He endeavoured to extricate the car, digging with his hands in the blazing sunshine.
  他在烈日下用手挖着，拼命想要把那辆汽车弄出来。
• China has long been endeavoured to boost consumption to ensure a sustainable economic development.
  中国一直致力于通过刺激消费保持经济的持续发展。
• Like his contemporaries in the Southwest, Zhang Xiaogang in this period endeavoured to establish a new aesthetic standard and style, to explore the spirit of his era.
  这个时期，张晓刚与其他西南艺术家一样，致力于创造崭新的审美观和美感形式，探寻时代精神。
• He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these states;
  他竭力抑制各州的人口增长；
• Hearing this news, he endeavoured to control his emotions.
  听到这个消息，他竭力控制住自己的感情。