effort

effort

英[ˈefət]美[ˈefərt]

n.努力，吃力，有组织的行动，费力的事；

复数：efforts;

例句

It was Cage's own fault if she felt missed out at the party; she made no effort to be friendly to people.如果凯奇觉得在聚会上受到冷落那是她自己找的, 她没有对别人表示友好过。

The device will save much time and effort for us.这种装置会使我们节省大量时间和气力。

It will require a superhuman effort to get the job finished on time.要按时完成这项工作需要作出非凡的努力。

She made a feeble effort to get to school on time.她努力想按时赶到学校, 但未成功。

Not brilliant, Robyn, but I’ll give you ten out of ten for effort.做得不算很好，罗宾，可是要论努力的话我给你打满分。

He lifted the rock without effort.他毫不费力地举起了那块石头。

The success turns on our effort.胜利取决于我们的努力。

If you slap your face until it’s swollen in an effort to look imposing,you’ll suffer for sure.打肿脸充胖子,吃亏的是自己。

A happy home life needs the effort from both sides of the couple.美满的家庭生活要靠夫妻双方的努力。

That's a good effort.那事干得不错。

英语六级真题

The football team, the basketball team—that's our competition for resources, student time, attention, school dollars, parent efforts, school enthusiasm.

Morgan said those findings—which included data from the system's 13 community colleges, 27 technical colleges and six universities—were part of the decision not to move forward with Governor Bill Haslam's proposal to privatize management of state buildings in an effort to save money.

By making the effort to organize and label files so others can understand them, scientists become more organized and better disciplined themselves, thus avoiding confusion later on.

But efforts are in place to expose more black, Hispanic, and low-income students to advanced math, in the hope that the demographic pool of high-level contenders will eventually begin to shift and become less exclusive.

When the health insurance industry was still cooperating in reform efforts, its trade group offered to provide standardized forms for automated processing.

Powerful opposition to government's stimulus efforts.

One boy said, I'd rather be concentrating on artistic efforts than saving the world or something.

Is surgery, radiation or careful monitoring best for prostate ( ' , 前列腺) cancer? Is the latest and most expensive cholesterol-lowering drug any better than its common competitors? The pending bills would spend additional money to accelerate this effort.

A new effort led by Canoe Ventures, a coalition of leading cable providers, aims to make interactive advertising available across America later this year.

We need more funding and more effort to return these languages to everyday use, says Fred Nowuski of the National Museum of the American Indian, We are making progress but money needs to be spent on revitalising languages, not just documenting them.

South Korea, which operates state-of-the-art bases here, is increasing its fishing of krill ( ' , 磷虾), found in abundance in the Southern Ocean, while Russia recently frustrated efforts to create one of the world's largest ocean sanctuaries here.

Efforts to create one of the world's largest ocean sanctuaries failed because of Russia's obstruction.

Calling on all the nations concerned to make joint efforts.

At least three Russian stations are already operating in Antarctica, part of its effort to challenge the dominance of the American GPS, and new stations are planned for sites like the Russian base, in the shadow of the Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity.

It is most imperative to focus our efforts on the elimination of income inequality.

Inertia is the resistance of objects to efforts to change their state of motion.

Efforts to accelerate the current energy transitions didn't succeed as expected.

It is a society well worth studying,and its efforts to conquer the gender gap impart a vital lesson—though not the lesson the Swedes had in mind。

If supervisors do not acknowledge such outstanding performance, employees may either lose their enthusiasm and reduce their effort or search for a new job at a firm that will reward them for high performance.

Their solutions need joint efforts of the public and private sectors.

Thus, my IDP will be most effective when it's embedded in larger career-development efforts

Milkman says, "that these extracurricular jobs were an effort on the part of the workers to regain their dignity after suffering the degradation of repetitive assembly line work in the factory.

In face of global warming, much effort has been focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions through a variety of strategies.

And yet, the same motivation that can push people to exert more effort in a constructive way could also motivate people to be more likely to engage in unethical behaviors," says Maurice Schweitzer, an associate professor at Penn's Wharton School

The core objective for universities which are research-led must be to maximise the impact of their research efforts.

With effort and money, the graduation gap can be closed.

Barry Mills, the president of Bowdoin College, was justifiably proud of Bowdoin's efforts to recruit minority students.

In the decades to 2050, America will find itself playing an ever-increasing role in the developed world's defence effort.

to promote the teaching of literature and the arts in an effort to make the case for democratic freedoms

In the America of our own time, the great educational challenge has become an effort to strengthen the teaching of what is now known as the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and math).

His untiring effort to fulfill his potential

But even then there is no guarantee that their efforts will work.

You diligence is worthy of encouragement, but effort does not equal accomplishment.

The example of Rembrandt's painting suggests that a distinction should be made between effort and accomplishment

I made an effort to get my supervisor to transfer me to another department, but he urged me not to complain too loudly, because the administration is more likely to replace me than the X-ray equipment.

Put more effort into preparing for the presentation.

As an EU-funded effort, the search for salt-tolerant varieties of rice is taking place in all three countries.

At other times, we personify products in an effort to understand them.

I think she is to be commended for making an effort to include anecdotes about little known female scientist.

It's up to your own self-discipline, how much effort you put into study.

Maintaining relationships over the long term takes effort.

Morgan said those findings—which included data from the system's 13 community colleges, 27 technical colleges and six universities—were part of the decision not to move forward with Governor Bill Haslam's proposal to privatize management of state building

Of course you're going to want to work harder and put the time and effort into it.

Overall, the strike is an effort to provide more secondary compensation along with other concerns,such as transparency upon hiring talent and on-set safety precautions.

That's why, for example, may say they believe in the benefits of recycling or exercise, but don't behave in line with their views, because it takes awareness, effort and courage to go beyond merely stating that you believe something is a good idea.

The experiment is based upon the idea that farmers who're protecting their herd from lions would shoot and kill lions in an effort to protect their livestock.

The marketing is tempting: Get stronger muscles and healthier bodies with minimal effort by adding protein powder to your morning shake or juice drink.

The pending bills would spend additional money to accelerate this effort.

The scientists cite a definition of "workaholism" as "being overly concerned about work, driven by an uncontrollable work motivation, and vesting so much time and effort in work that it impairs other important life areas.

Under this scheme, the number of individual working hours is reduced in an effort to avoid layoffs.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-VAR

努力;气力；精力

If you make an effort to do something, you try very hard to do it.

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N-UNCOUNT

吃力;费力

If you say that someone did something with effort or with an effort, you mean it was difficult for them to do.

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N-COUNT

（为达到某一目的的）有组织的行动，一系列活动

An effort is a particular series of activities that is organized by a group of people in order to achieve something.

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N-SING

费力的事;困难的事;劳神的事

If you say that something is an effort, you mean that an unusual amount of physical or mental energy is needed to do it.

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PHRASE

尽力；尝试；勉为其难

If you make the effort to do something, you do it, even though you need extra energy to do it or you do not really want to.

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PHRASE

勇气;决心

If you do something difficult or painful by an effort of will, you manage to make yourself do it.

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PHRASE

值得努力去做

If you say that something is worth the effort, you mean that it will justify the energy that you have spent or will spend on it.

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英汉词典释义

n.

努力, 尽力

努力的结果, 成就

气力；费力的事

艰难的尝试；试图；尽力

有组织的活动

花费精力，费力

努力(或艰难尝试)的成果，结果，成就；(尤指文学、艺术的)作品

(为某种目的所进行的)全部努力；全部工作

【机械学】作用力

英英词典释义

Noun

1. earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something;

2. use of physical or mental energy; hard work;

3. a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end;

4. a notable achievement;

行业词典

计算机： 工作，研究计划；