| 词汇 | effort |
| 释义 | effort noun uk /ˈef.ət/ us /ˈef.ɚt/ B1[ C or U ] physical or mental activity needed to achieve something: 气力;精力;努力 [ + to infinitive ]If we could all make an effort to keep this office tidier it would help.如果我们都努力保持整洁，那么办公室的面貌肯定会大有改观。 make the effortYou can't expect to have any friends if you don't make the effort with people.如果不努力去和人们交往，你就别想有朋友。 in someone’s effort toIn their efforts to reduce crime the government expanded the police force.为了减少犯罪，政府扩大了警察的队伍。 effort toHe's jogging around the park every morning in an effort to get fit.为了调整好身体状况，他现在每天早晨都绕着公园慢跑。 worth the effortIt takes a long time to prepare the dish but the results are so good that it's worth the effort.做这道菜很费时间，但结果大家都很爱吃，工夫真没白费。 [ C ] the result of an attempt to produce something, especially when its quality is low or uncertain: （尤指不理想的或难以确定的）结果 Do you want to have a look at his exam paper? It's a fairly poor effort.你想看看他的试卷吗？成绩可是不太好。 be an effort C2 to be difficult, tiring, or boring to do: 做…很难（费劲、乏味等） I'm exhausted all the time, and everything is a real effort.我总是觉得精疲力尽，无论做什么都很费劲。 A considerable amount of time and effort has gone into this exhibition.相当多的时间和精力被投入到这次展会上。 Everyone ought to make the effort to vote. It was a real team effort - everyone contributed something to the success of the project.这完全是集体努力的结果——每个人都为这个项目的成功作出了贡献。 He's obviously making a special effort to be nice to me at the moment. He hauled himself over the wall, grunting with the effort.他费力地翻过墙，累得直哼哼。 Effort and expending energy assiduity assiduous assiduously assiduousness be running on emptyidiom burn effortful effortfully elbow grease fight hamster wheel hard at itidiom kill plough plough through something push put something in/put something into something rearguard action set/put your mind to somethingidiom swing You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Trying and making an effort effort | American Dictionaryeffort noun[ C/U ] us/ˈef·ərt/ physical or mental activity needed to achieve something, or an attempt to do something: [ C ]They met again in an effort to end the strike and get people back to work. [ U ]It took years to write the book, but it was worth the effort. [ U ]He established the Help Committee to coordinate the relief effort. [ C ]Efforts to reach the senator for comment were not successful. effort | Business Englisheffort noun uk /ˈefət/us [ C or U ] a serious attempt to do something: an effort to do sthThis is part of an ongoing effort to develop the Asian debt market. The guidelines require that companies make an effort to engender a culture of ethical compliance. The new system has been introduced in an effort to improve customer care. Ensuring the product is launched on time will be a team effort. Over the past year, the combined efforts of the train companies has produced a 12% increase in passenger business and a 20% expansion of freight traffic. [ U ] physical or mental activity needed to achieve something, or energy used to do something: A number of returns which were prepared manually are now produced by the computer, resulting in saving of staff time and effort. take/require effortTaking the time to compare prices means that the purchase takes more effort, but it's usually worth it. Examples of efforteffort This section is meant to be a mutual effort. This reuse permits the effort required to develop sets of transformations to be amortized over a large number of derivations. Assisted by his pupils from the local school, he continued his efforts until 1933. The users of the water invested the communal power with the duty of protecting them against usurpers' efforts to divert the water. Their efforts reinforced local differences in the immediate post-war countrysides. Moreover, in a liberal democracy with a well-developed private sector, would-be hegemonic efforts to extend the party's influence through society can have unexpected results. Anxiety about the relativist abyss in which 'all pasts are equal' has thwarted efforts to evaluate alternatives to 'objective science'. The search took over five years of effort and co-operation by research, extension, growers and fabric manufacturers. This misuses the effort the target article took to reason carefully. I imagine myself in the coming decade celebrating and supporting others' efforts to do such things. Unlike the case of tree planting, however, fallowing of food crop fields does not require labor effort and, hence, tends to weaken land rights. The lack of records and sufficient tracking for antiquities also hampers efforts to control the problem. It is thus not too early to contemplate other such collaborative efforts. Ultimately, the effort to write a history of trades showed few results. Ideally the ultimate goal of any remediation effort will be to reduce the concentrations of contaminants at the site to those befitting a pristine ecosystem. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withefforteffortThese are words often used in combination with effort. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. advocacy effort In 2004, after decades of contamination in the village and advocacy efforts for health services, the government built a clinic on the other side of the village. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. all-out effort This was an all-outeffort by the regime, through the determination and initiative of the top leadership, to survive not only domestically but also internationally as an independent nation. ambitious effort In their mixture of amateurish incompleteness and ambitiouseffort, the pages bear witness to a conflict. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with effort |
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