endeavour

1. V-T If you endeavour to do something, you try very hard to do it. 努力[正式]

They are endeavouring to protect trade union rights. 他們正在努力保護工會權(quán)利。

2. N-VAR An endeavour is an attempt to do something, especially something new or original. 嘗試[正式]

The company's creative endeavours are thriving. 該公司的創(chuàng)新嘗試蓬勃興旺。

Extracting information about the large-scale composition of a planet from a sample weighing a millionth of a gram was a fascinating example of scientific endeavour. 從重量爲百萬分之一尅的樣品中提取有關(guān)行星宏觀組成的信息是一個極爲有趣的科學嘗試實例。