Endeavor
[ɪn'dɛvɚ]
解释:
(verb.) attempt by employing effort; 'we endeavor to make our customers happy'.
杰西卡校对--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.
(v. i.) To exert one's self; to work for a certain end.
(n.) An exertion of physical or intellectual strength toward the attainment of an object; a systematic or continuous attempt; an effort; a trial.
编辑:朱利叶斯
同义词及近义词：
n. Effort, attempt, essay, trial, struggle, exertion, aim.
v. n. Try, attempt, essay, labor, strive, aim, make an effort, make an attempt.
录入:勒达
同义词及反义词：
[See ATTEMPT]
整理:罗莎
例句:
- We should endeavor to secure an elevation in temperature of from 120 to 140 deg. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- This illusion, which created so much sensation in London and first known here as Pepper’s Ghost, I will endeavor to explain, and make the working of it as clear as I possibly can to the reader. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- We will endeavor to do such 'supposing' as is really necessary to be done. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- No packing down is needed except in the corners and along the walls; at these points we endeavor to firm the ensilage just as much as possible. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- She waits until her husband is asleep, and then she rushes down to endeavor to persuade them to leave her in peace. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- In his second endeavor Adams assumed that the unknown planet had an elliptical orbit. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Leaving the telephone, let us now turn our attention to the telegraph, and endeavor to show as best we can some idea of the measure to which it has been affected by Edison's inventions. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- I informed him that I would endeavor to hold the enemy in my front while he crossed the river. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Crook will have all cavalry, and will endeavor to get in about Saltville, and move east from there to join Ord. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- I naturally expected that Pemberton would endeavor to obey the orders of his superior, which I have shown were to attack us at Clinton. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Upon this background our activities focus at certain points in an endeavor to introduce needed changes. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Endeavor to have the inside of the silo smooth and perpendicular from top to bottom, with no jogs or shoulders upon which the ensilage can catch or drag. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- I cudgelled my brains until I fell asleep in the endeavor to find some explanation which would cover all these facts. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- It was quite in vain for me to endeavor to make him sensible that he ought to speak to Miss Havisham. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- It is equally true that in Edison and the many men who have graduated from his stern school of endeavor, America has had its foremost seat of electrical engineering. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- She asks for a hundred pounds, and endeavors to buy them off. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- He was acutely conscious that this was an enterprise too great for any one man, and he used his utmos t endeavors to induce James I to become the patron of the plan. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- It would have perceived that such disconnection, such rupture of continuity, denied in advance the possibility of success in their endeavors. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- For instance, at the time when he was making strenuous endeavors to obtain copper wire of high conductivity, strict laboratory tests were made of samples sent by manufacturers. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- As they originally existed they were indifferent to human endeavors. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- The experiments wer e now definitely abandoned, and the inventor was overwhelmed by the sense of failure, and still more by the skepticism with which the pu blic had regarded his endeavors. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
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