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

• Although he failed in the exam, he was not so sad because he had endeavoured.
  虽然他考试没及格，但他并不太伤心，因为他已尽力了。
• 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。
• 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。
• She endeavoured to stir, but it was useless.
  她竭力想挪动一下，但是没有用。
• 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。
• Like his contemporaries in the Southwest, Zhang Xiaogang in this period endeavoured to establish a new aesthetic standard and style, to explore the spirit of his era.
  这个时期，张晓刚与其他西南艺术家一样，致力于创造崭新的审美观和美感形式，探寻时代精神。
• 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 resolved to silence it, if possible; I endeavoured to unhasp the casement, but the hook was soldered into the staple.
  我决定把这声音止住，如果可能的话。我试着去打开那窗子，但窗钩给焊在钩环里了。
• He endeavoured to adopt a positive but realistic attitude.
  他力求采取一种积极而又现实的态度。
• 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。