endeavour

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en·deav·our1 British EnglishBrE, endeavor American English /ɪnˈdevə $ -ər/ verb [intransitiveI]

formalTRY TO DO OR GET something to try very hard 努力，奋力

endeavour to do something

We always endeavor to please our customers.

我们总是竭尽全力让顾客满意。

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endeavour• They endeavoured, on a number of levels, to make themselves more accountable than previous Labour councils had been.• It is very important that the two partners endeavour to: Agree on discipline.• Joan opened it, endeavouring to appear calm.• Auguste was endeavouring to be both detective and maîtred'hôtel for the matter of tea, torn as usual by twin loves.• Other churches have endeavoured to build effective congregational structures to express both homogeneity and heterogeneity.• The management control process should endeavour to measure whether predetermined goals are being achieved.• We will endeavour to sell your items for you.

endeavour to do something• We will endeavour to arrive in Scheffau before the shops close!• I remained for some time endeavouring to engage Mr Campbell in conversation.• After commencing retraining, the ex POWs, like most soldiers on a home posting, endeavoured to get home at weekends.• They also endeavour to increase the participation of local organizations in educational planning.• We always endeavour to provide our customers with the highest standards of service.• We will endeavour to sell your items for you.• In this care study I have endeavoured to show some aspects of the unique role of the nurse described by Salvage.• It is this cheapness which I am endeavouring to slough off.

endeavour2 British EnglishBrE, endeavor American English noun

[countableC, uncountableU] formalTRY TO DO OR GET something an attempt to do something new or difficult 尝试；努力

scientific/creative etc endeavour 科学的/创造性的等尝试

an outstanding example of human endeavor

人类努力进取的突出例证

endeavour to do something

They made every endeavour to find the two boys.

他们竭尽全力寻找那两个男孩。

Despite our best endeavours, we couldn’t start the car.

我们虽然尽了最大努力，但还是无法发动汽车。

Examples from the Corpus

endeavour• It was no accident that this was a major area of feminist endeavour.• Have you faced his challenges to great endeavour?• Attitudes were formed as much in shared leisure as by individual endeavour.• Yet here is a dark continent on our own doorstep, crying out for missionary endeavour.• They suspected they would gain little from this particular endeavour, but anything that supplemented their income was worthwhile.• She preferred laughter and skylarks to solid endeavour and while she could be noisy she shied away from being the centre of attention.• And they were eventually rewarded for their endeavour and spirit with a cracking goal.• Pride of place in this endeavour was given to systematic and properly grounded empirical investigation.

scientific/creative etc endeavour• For them pollution control work is a scientific endeavour.• But the records of this branch of scientific endeavour date back 7000 years.• Any form of scientific endeavour must attempt to transcend its time and place to sustain an independent, doubting stance.

Origin endeavour1

(1400-1500) dever “duty” ((13-17 centuries)), from Old French deveir

en·deav·our1 verbendeavour2 noun

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