endeavoured

英 [ɪnˈdevəd] 美 [ɪnˈdevərd]

v.  努力; 尽力; 竭力
endeavour的过去分词和过去式

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    in AM, use 美国英语用 endeavor

  1. VERB 努力;尽力
    If you endeavour to do 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。
  2. N-VAR (尤指新的或创造性事物的)努力，尝试
    An endeavour is 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
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双语例句

  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. Although he failed in the exam, he was not so sad because he had endeavoured.
    虽然他考试没及格，但他并不太伤心，因为他已尽力了。
  4. In an artIcle I endeavoured, about a year ago, to depIct some very remarkable features In the mental character of my frIend.
    一年前光景，我在一篇文章里，尽力描写我朋友智力上一些非常惊人的特点。
  5. I resolved to silence it, if possible; I endeavoured to unhasp the casement, but the hook was soldered into the staple.
    我决定把这声音止住，如果可能的话。我试着去打开那窗子，但窗钩给焊在钩环里了。
  6. I thought her conduct must be prompted by a species of dreary fun; and, now that we were alone, I endeavoured to interest her in my distress.
    我想她的行为一定是由于无聊闹着玩玩的。现在只有我们俩了，我想对她诉诉苦。
  7. My mother was in hysterics, and though I endeavoured to give her every assistance in my power, I am afraid I did not do so much as I might have done!
    妈那种歇斯底里的毛病又发作了，我虽然尽了我的力量去劝慰她，恐怕还是不有够周到的地方。
  8. She wished that she had not fallen in so readily with her mother's plans for'claiming kin ', and had endeavoured to gain assistance nearer home.
    她心里真希望她没有那样轻易就接受了母亲的“认亲”计划，而想法在自己的家门口找到了帮助。
  9. Walter, in the emotion of holding in his hand the means of releasing his good Uncle from his trouble, would have endeavoured to express something of his gratitude and joy.
    沃尔特手里拿着把他的善良的舅舅从灾难中解救出来的手段，心中无比激动，本想尽力说些表示感激与喜悦的话。
  10. We have endeavoured to make the vehicle environmentally friendly.
    我们尽力使车辆不污染环境。
  11. 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。
  12. I endeavoured to stop her thoughtless tongue. Don't prattle with this woman, he cautioned himself.
    我想止住她那毫不思索的饶舌。跟女的少那么饶舌，他训了自己一句。
  13. Jude, beginning to feel lonely, endeavoured to keep up with him.
    裘德因为那时开始觉得孤寂，所以就拼命地跟着那个人走。
  14. 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。
  15. He endeavoured to adopt a positive but realistic attitude.
    他力求采取一种积极而又现实的态度。
  16. He had endeavoured to procure them some assistance with their luggage.
    他尽力帮他们找人搬些行李。
  17. 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；
  18. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these states;
    他竭力抑制各州的人口增长；
  19. They endeavoured to legitimise that approach by invoking the concept of "substantial equivalence".
    它们试图通过运用“实质等同”（substantialequivalence）的概念将该方法合法化。
  20. 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。
  21. Whilst we have endeavoured to ensure the accuracy of this general information, no statement, representation, warranty or guarantee, express or implied, is given as to its accuracy or appropriateness for use in any particular circumstances.
    本网站虽已尽力确保该等资料的准确，但对于该等资料在任何特定情况下使用时的准确性或恰当性，并没有作出任何明示或隐含的陈述、保证或担保。
  22. She endeavoured to stir, but it was useless.
    她竭力想挪动一下，但是没有用。
  23. The papal captain have vainly endeavoured to induce his wife to remain behind him.
    教廷的队长曾白费力气地试图说服妻子留下不去。
  24. They endeavoured to erect the territory into an amusement park
    他们努力将这一地区建成了游乐
  25. 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。
  26. Like America, we haven't just practised free trade, we have endeavoured to promote it in the WTO and in APEC.
    像美国一样，我们不单单奉行自由贸易经济，我们锐意在世贸组织和亚太经合组织推广这个理念。
  27. 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。
  28. I have endeavoured to give in their briefest outline the reasons for my disaffection.
    我已经尽力简短地说明了我产生不满情绪的原因。
  29. The pastors of the early Christian Church in Rome endeavoured to do away with the pagan element in these feasts by substituting the names of saints for those of maidens.
    牧人的早期基督教教堂在罗马力图摆脱与异教的因素，这些节日即以姓名圣人对于那些少女。
  30. I had encouraged my husband, and endeavoured to support his spirits under his trouble.
    我曾经劝过我丈夫，当他在困难之中我曾极力鼓励过他的勇气。
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