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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He had endeavoured to procure them some assistance with their luggage.
  他尽力帮他们找人搬些行李。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。