英语词汇effort怎么读，是什么意思，单词翻译、读音、固定搭配用法和短语词组及例句-英汉双解词典

effort

efəʳt  ˈɛfərt 

Word forms: plural efforts

1 N-VAR [oft NOUN to-infinitive] 努力;气力；精力 If you make an effort to do something, you try very hard to do it. 努力;气力；精力

He made no effort to hide his disappointment.

他毫不掩饰失望之情。
Finding a cure requires considerable time and effort.

找到治疗的办法需要大量的时间和精力。
...his efforts to reform Italian research.

他为改革意大利研究付出的努力
Despite the efforts of the United Nations, the problem of drug traffic continues to grow. [+ of]

尽管联合国作了努力，贩毒问题仍变得越来越严重。
But a concerted effort has begun to improve the quality of the urban air.

但是各方已经开始共同努力改善城镇空气质量。

SYN attempt, try, endeavour, shot [informal]

2 N-UNCOUNT [usu with N, oft a NOUN] 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. 吃力;费力 [written]

She took a deep breath and sat up slowly and with great effort.

她深吸一口气，费力地慢慢坐起身来。
With an effort she contained her irritation.

她努力强压住了怒火。

3 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. （为达到某一目的的）有组织的行动，一系列活动

...a famine relief effort in Angola.

在安哥拉进行的饥荒救济行动

4 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. 费力的事;困难的事;劳神的事

Even carrying the camcorder while hiking in the forest was an effort.

在森林中徒步旅行时，即便带的是便携式摄像机也非常费力。

5 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. 尽力；尝试；勉为其难

I don't get lonely now because I make the effort to see people.

我现在不觉得孤独了，因为我尝试着与人交往。

6 PHRASE 勇气;决心 If you do something difficult or painful by an effort of will, you manage to make yourself do it. 勇气;决心

It was only by a supreme effort of will and courage that he was able to pull himself together.

他全凭超凡的决心和勇气才使自己振作起来。

7 PHRASE [verb-link 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. 值得努力去做

Fortunately, the chore of leaf sweeping is well worth the effort.

幸运的是，干清扫落叶这个活儿是值得的。

Quotations

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt José Ortega y Gasset In Search of Goethe From Within, Letter to a German

Lovely it is, when the winds are churning up the waves on the great sea, to gaze out from the land on the great efforts of someone else Lucretius De Rerum Natura

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well Lord Chesterfield Letters to His Son

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might Bible: Ecclesiastes

Thesaurus

effort Also look up:

attempt 1

exertion, labour, work 2

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