striving

基本解釋

I am striving to explain explicitly.
我力爭做出詳盡的說明。
You will not be able to build self respect if you are permanently striving to impress others with outer displays.
如果你永遠(yuǎn)在努力用外在的顯示來加深別人對你的印象，你將不能夠建立自我尊重。
'When we are striving for development, we cannot be choosers─we have accepted what is best for the country, ' he said.
他說，我們在努力發(fā)展的時候，就不能挑三揀四，我們接受的是最有利於這個國家的東西。

Not having anything that they're striving for. Not going back to the moon or trying to go to Mars, or anything else."
The cave of Mammon is the home of Mammon, the money god, who stores in his cave all of the wealth and all of the honor that human beings spend so much energy striving for.
貪欲之神的洞穴是他的住所，這位掌琯錢財(cái)?shù)纳裨谒亩囱e藏著,人類耗費(fèi)大量精力想要求得的,所有財(cái)富和榮譽(yù)。
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And for two years, I locked myself in that garage and no one knew what I was striving for."

So one way we protect ourselves against not being good enough is by striving for perfection.
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If you strive to do something or strive for something, you make a great effort to do it or get it.