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词汇 endeavouring
释义 endeavouring
present participle ofendeavour
endeavour
verb[ I+ to infinitive ]
UK(USendeavor)uk /enˈdev.ər/ us /enˈdev.ɚ/
C1
to try to do something: 努力;奋力
endeavour toEngineers are endeavouring to locate the source of the problem.工程师们正竭尽全力查找问题的根源。
Synonyms
attempt
strive
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to try to do something
tryI'll try to call her again.
attemptI have never attempted to run a marathon.
endeavourUKEngineers are endeavouring to locate the source of the problem.
seekThey sought to reassure the public.
battleHe was battling to fix the roof in the rain.
striveWith limited resources, they are striving to make the school a better one.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Trying and making an effort
A game
all out
assault
attempt
attempted
commitment
crack
go after someone
go all outidiom
go down swinging/fightingidiom
go for itidiom
go for someone
nose
seek
shoot the worksidiom
smarten (someone/something) up
smarten up your actidiom
spare
square the circleidiom
step on the gasidiom

Examples of endeavouring


endeavouring

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


It is an ambitious combination endeavouring to reveal both the objective and subjective contexts of construction in a manner accessible to practitioners, teachers, and students.
In the third level, the co-ordinator and the facilitators validated the results by endeavouring to capture the momentum of the workshops in the final report.
Testing and endeavouring to transcend these comfortable polarities is essential if we are to reach a nuanced understanding.
The pull of value itself is infinite, but by endeavouring to pursue it infinitely one may well serve it less.
This indicates that long-time integration is difficult and this can be confirmed by endeavouring to solve (11.17) with any popular, general-purpose solver.
Some reforms can be seen as endeavouring to replace multilevel governance structures with principal-agent relationships, so that the government is more clearly in control.
Endeavouring to undertake this task clearly exceeds the modest goals of this squib.
We cannot escape the fact that we are heirs and prisoners of the past we are endeavouring to excavate, or avoid the long shadows it casts.
In endeavouring to put that so-called chemistry into practice, my evidence would be that it has been singularly and almost totally unsuccessful.
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In endeavouring to be fair, we often leaned over backwards and hammered our own supporters.
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I am endeavouring to obtain information as to dates on which the principal consignments were received.
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I am endeavouring to do a service to my fellow countrymen in asking them what they want.
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I was endeavouring to go back over the years to show why the giro system had not been introduced.
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Secondly, which is perhaps even more important, urge the textile trade forward in their work of endeavouring to find a non-inflammable treatment for clothing.
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We are endeavouring to catch up with errors committed in past years when we allowed these fellows to get ahead of us.
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