endeavoured

英 [ɪnˈdevəd]

美 [ɪnˈdevərd]

v.  努力; 尽力; 竭力
endeavour的过去分词和过去式

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

• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• She endeavoured to stir, but it was useless.
  她竭力想挪动一下，但是没有用。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。