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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I was endeavouring to put off one sort of life for another sort of life.
  我那是想要脱离一种生活，改换另一种生活。
• 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。