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

• 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。
• 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。
• The United Nations is endeavouring to establish peace.
  联合国正在致力确保和平。
• They are endeavouring to protect trade union rights.
  他们在竭力捍卫工会的权利。
• No, I thank you; she replied, endeavouring to recover herself.
  她竭力保持镇静，回答他道：不要，谢谢你。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。