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struggle
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈstrʌɡ.əl/ us /ˈstrʌɡ.əl/

strugglenoun[C] (EFFORT)

B2
a very difficult task that you can do only by making a great effort: （应对困难而需要的）挣扎;努力，奋斗
It was a terrible struggle for him to accept her death.他经过一番痛苦的挣扎才接受了她已死的事实。
The people of this country will continue in their struggle for independence.这个国家的人民将会继续为争取独立而奋斗。
[ + to infinitive ]She never gave up the struggle to have her son freed from prison.她从未放弃将儿子营救出狱的努力。
It's going to be an uphill struggle (= very difficult) to get your ideas accepted.要使人们接受你的想法将会非常困难。
It was a struggle just to keep my footing.我挣扎着想要站稳。
The film is about a young police-officer and his struggle to expose corruption in the force.影片讲述的是一个年轻警察的故事，表现了他是如何克服困难揭露警方内部腐败的。
Trying to change attitudes to disability is an uphill struggle.改变对待残疾的态度是一项艰巨的工作。
We managed to finish the work on time but it was a struggle.
It's a struggle, raising kids on your own.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Effort and expending energy
assiduity
assiduous
assiduously
assiduousness
be running on emptyidiom
burn
effort
effortful
effortfully
elbow grease
fight
hamster wheel
kill
perseverance
plough
plough through something
push
put something in/put something into something
rearguard action
swing

strugglenoun[C] (FIGHT)

B2
a physical or mental fight: （身体上或精神上的）争斗;搏斗;斗争
a struggle with an armed robber和持械劫匪的搏斗
the struggle between good and evil善恶之争
Clearly there will be a power struggle within the company.很明显，公司内将出现一场权力之争。

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

a fight
fightHe got into a fight in school.
fistfightHe was arrested for getting into a fistfight after the match.
brawlHe was injured in a brawl outside the stadium.
scuffleThere were a few scuffles between fans after the match.
clashFive people were injured in clashes between strikers and owners.
struggleHe managed to escape after a struggle.
a struggle for supremacy追求最好的努力
There is an eternal struggle between good and evil.
India attained independence in 1947, after decades of struggle.经过几十年的斗争，印度于1947年获得独立。
There is a furious struggle going on between the two presidential candidates.两位总统竞选人之间进行着激烈的争斗。
In the 80s he took centre stage in his party's struggle with the unions.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Fighting
armed combat
arms
array
bellicosity
blood diamond
bloodlessly
conflict
engage
firefight
gunfight
pick on someone your own sizeidiom
rabbit punch
refight
remobilization
remobilize
scuffle
see action
tilt at windmillsidiom
toe
tussle

struggle | American Dictionary

struggle
verb[ I ]
us/ˈstrʌɡ·əl/

struggleverb[I] (TRY HARD)

to work hard to do something:
We watched boys on skateboards struggle to keep their balance.

struggleverb[I] (FIGHT)

to fight, esp. physically:
He struggled with his cousin, and his uncle had to step in to calm things down.

struggleverb[I] (MOVE)

to move with difficulty:
She struggled out of her chair.
struggle
noun[ C ]
us/ˈstrʌɡ·əl/

strugglenoun[C] (FIGHT)

a fight:
Both men were arrested after their struggle in the street.

strugglenoun[C] (TRYING HARD)

a very great effort to do something:
Central banks everywhere are still fighting the struggle against inflation.

struggle | Business English

struggle
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈstrʌɡl/us
a hard effort or fight to do or get something:
a struggle for sthThere was a struggle for control of the company.
a struggle against sthThe struggle against drugs took up much of the police's time and manpower.
something that is extremely difficult to achieve:
We completed the project, but it was a struggle.
a struggle to do sthIt has been a struggle to make the business profitable.
struggle
verb[ I ]
uk /ˈstrʌɡl/us
to try or fight very hard in order to do or get something:
struggle with/against sthFor years she struggled with the department to get her ideas accepted.
struggle for sthWomen struggle for equal rights.
to find it extremely difficult to succeed or to achieve something:
In the current climate many small businesses are struggling.
struggle to do sthThe Government will struggle to achieve its target of 15% of electricity from renewables.
struggle along/throughThe company may struggle along on its own but a merger with a stronger company would be better for its pension holders.

Examples of struggle

struggle
In this institutional struggle, some groups will end up supporting their second preference in order to avoid an even worse outcome.
An ideology was needed to explain why it was that some people were not caught up in the neutralist struggle to avoid civil war altogether.
Contemporary social scientists struggle with the problem of being precise about that which defies precision : the cloudiness of our own lives.
If there was really so little to decide, what were the local struggles all about?
And so the spoken drama struggles, receiving little international or local community funding, nor extra government money to compensate.
Instead, it was a series of ad hoc measures implemented in a struggle to prevent chaos and to stop revolutionary turmoil.
They could not count on the same degree of popular support following any decision to start an armed struggle for power.
In these struggles the latter regularly appealed for support to a larger cultivated public.
Much archaeological research deals with periods and regions for which it is a real struggle to discern the agency of individuals.
Additionally, a dyad will only be classified as coercively attached if the attachment figure engages in the struggle which cannot be resolved.
They were also accounts of struggle and resistance, which included claims of worthiness and profound demands for life with dignity.
And energy recovered from the heterogeneous fuel of rubbish struggles to be economically competitive.
From a handful of scientific consultants and then the heads of struggling forestry administrations, the scientific enterprise had by the late 1940s enlarged considerably.
It reflected, moreover, political striving within the psychoanalytic movement and between it and its opponents and enemies in the struggle for recognition.
History is still ultimately a question of class struggle, and the developments of the nineteenth century are dominated by the machinations of bourgeois capital.
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Collocations withstruggle

struggle

These are words often used in combination with struggle.

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armed struggle
They could not count on the same degree of popular support following any decision to start an armed struggle for power.
bitter struggle
What will happen will be a bitter struggle, a fight, a race.
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