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行星宏觀組成的信息是一個極爲有趣的科學嘗試實例。