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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The United Nations is endeavouring to establish peace.
  联合国正在致力确保和平。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• By endeavouring to reduce both short-term and long-term rates, the Fed has helped flatten the yield curve, restricting banks 'ability to make money by borrowing short-term – such as by taking deposits from individuals – and lending long.
  美联储努力同时降低短期和长期利率，从而拉平了收益率曲线，限制了银行借短（例如从个人手中吸收存款）贷长的能力。
• 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。