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

• 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 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。
• Mr Yau is endeavouring to make money, while helping his ancestral country develop.
  Yau先生在努力赚钱，同时帮助他的祖国发展。
• She is now at Lushan sanatorium and endeavouring to pull round.
  她目前在庐山休养所，力图把身体养好。
• 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。
• The back of the settle and Earnshaw's person interposed between me and him: so instead of endeavouring to reach me, he snatched a dinner knife from the table and flung it at my head.
  高背椅子的椅背和恩萧本人把我和他隔开了；因此他也不想走到我面前：只从桌上抓把餐刀往我头上猛掷过来。
• Mr Martin is one of a vanguard of senior teachers endeavouring with support from Michael Gove, the education secretary to put discipline at the heart of teaching.
  马丁是高级教师中致力于将纪律性的培养置于教学中心地位的先锋，并得到了教育部长迈克尔·戈夫的支持。
• "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。”
• 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。
• There is no doubt that the Japanese imperialists and the pro-Japanese group are still endeavouring to prolong civil war in China.
  没有问题，日本帝国主义和亲日派还在企图使中国继续内战。