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

• The United Nations is endeavouring to establish peace.
  联合国正在致力确保和平。
• Romeo and benvolio were endeavouring to part the two combatants.
  罗密欧和班伏里奥正竭力把两个格斗者分开。
• Well, you will have opportunities enough of endeavouring to recommend yourself, for we are a great deal together.
  好了，你有的是机会讨她的欢心了，因为我们经常在一起。
• By endeavouring to reduce both short-term and long-term rates, the Fed has helped flatten the yield curve, restricting banks 'ability to make money by borrowing short-term – such as by taking deposits from individuals – and lending long.
  美联储努力同时降低短期和长期利率，从而拉平了收益率曲线，限制了银行借短（例如从个人手中吸收存款）贷长的能力。
• Rendered too certain of her sister's misfortune, Jeanie had now the dreadful alternative of communicating her ruin to her father, or of endeavouring to conceal it from him.
  珍妮现在明知妹妹遭到不幸，怎么也拿不定主意：是把妹妹不幸的遭遇告诉父亲，还是设法把事情隐瞒过去。
• 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。
• 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。
• All the while Hurstwood was endeavouring to formulate his plea in such a way that it would strike home and bring her into sympathy with him.
  赫斯渥则一直在煞费苦心地求情，想使她受到感动而同情他。
• 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。
• "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。”