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

• 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。
• Harvard Business School is also endeavouring to catch young students.
  哈佛商学院也在努力吸引年轻学员。
• And so she ran on, till I dropped endeavouring to convince her of her mistake.
  她就这样滔滔不绝地说着，到后来我只好放弃了使她觉悟到她的错误的努力。
• 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。
• From 1978 to the first half of 1980, the major work of SHANGHAI LAW SOCIETY was restoring its organization and endeavouring to increase academic.
  自恢复活动后至1980年上半年，上海市法学会的工作主要是恢复和健全组织，初步开展学术活动。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。