endeavoured是什么意思？

endeavoured

• v. 努力，尽力，竭力( endeavour的过去式和过去分词 )；

例句

• Jude , beginning to feel lonely, endeavoured to keep up with him. 裘德因为那时开始觉得孤寂, 所以就拼命地跟着那个人走.
• Heaven only aided those who endeavoured to help themselves. 老天爷只帮助那些自力更生的人.
• I have endeavoured to give in their briefest outline the reasons for my disaffection. 我已经尽力简短地说明了我产生不满情绪的原因.
• He endeavoured to extricate the car, digging with his hands in the blazing sunshine. 他在烈日下用手挖着，拼命想要把那辆汽车弄出来。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  努力;尽力
  If you endeavour to do something, you try very hard to do it.
  例句
  I will endeavour to arrange it... 我会尽力安排。 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
  An endeavour is an attempt to do something, especially something new or original.
  例句
  His first endeavours in the field were wedding films. 他初涉这个领域时做的是婚礼摄影。 ...the benefits of investment in scientific endeavour. 在科学领域投资的收益