首页英语词典efforteffort的意思

effort

英 ['efət] 美['ɛfɚt]

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近义词endeavor undertaking attempt fling exertion try

n. 努力；成就

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复数: efforts;

中文词源

effort 努力

ef-, 向外。-fort, 力量，词源同fort, fortify.

英英释意

1. earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something;: "made an effort to cover all the reading material"; "wished him luck in his endeavor"; "she gave it a good try"

2. use of physical or mental energy; hard work;: "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion"

3. a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end;: "he supported populist campaigns"; "they worked in the cause of world peace"; "the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant"; "the movement to end slavery"; "contributed to the war effort"

4. a notable achievement;: "he performed a great deed"; "the book was her finest effort"

英文词源

effort: effort: [15] Etymologically, effort is the ‘putting out’ or ‘showing’ of ‘force’. It comes ultimately from Vulgar Latin *exfortiāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and the adjective fortis ‘strong’. This passed into Old French as esforcier ‘force, exert’, from which was derived the noun esforz. English borrowed it in its later form effort.
=> force
effort (n.): late 15c., "laborious attempt, strenuous exertion," from Middle French effort, from Old French esforz "force, impetuosity, strength, power," verbal noun from esforcier "force out, exert oneself," from Vulgar Latin *exfortiare "to show strength" (source of Italian sforza), from Latin ex- "out" (see ex-) + Latin fortis "strong" (see fort).
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. [Ortega y Gasset, 1949]
Related: Efforts "voluntary exertion," also "result of exertion."

同义词辨析

effort, trouble, pains, endeavour, struggle

这些名词均表示"努力"之意。

effort：通常指完成某特定任务所需付出的或大或小的努力，可指一次的努力，也可指坚持不懈的努力。

trouble和pains均侧重在面临困难或阻力时所作的努力，但强调在努力时的细心和谨慎，相比之下，pains更适合表示尽力的努力。

pains：

endeavour：指持久的，坚持不懈的，甚至是终身的努力，强调努力的认真与决心。

struggle：指为克服困难或阻力所作的努力，也指因决心、意志或干劲而产生的极大努力。

考试真题

This means they often have to make a special effort to lay the past to rest.

People with HSAM often have to make efforts to avoid focusing on the past.

Food-import anxiety is even leading to new efforts by food-importing countries to buy or lease farmland in other countries.

When I told a group of school children who displayed helpless behavior that a lack of effort led to their mistakes in math, they learned to keep trying when the problems got tough.

They had negative views of effort, believing that having to work hard was a sign of low ability.

These experiments indicated that a focus on effort can help resolve helplessness and generate success.

Over the past three decades, the industry has made some efforts to improve the quality of its offerings.

In particular, attributing poor performance to a lack of ability depresses motivation more than does the belief that lack of effort is to blame.

Focusing on effort is effective in helping children overcome frustration and achieve success.

Rescue efforts were underway Thursday morning for 17 miners who were stuck in an elevator below ground at Cargill rock salt mine near Lansing, New York, according to Marcia Lynch, Public Information Officer at Tompkins County’s Emergency Response Department.

There have been half-hearted but well-publicized efforts by some food companies to reduce calories in their processed foods, but the Standard American Diet is still the polar opposite of the healthy, mostly plant-based diet that just about every expert says we should be eating.

To show its effort to overcome complacency.

optimistic about Obama's effort to reduce CO2 emissions

What we are suggesting is that a population-wide effort to reduce salt intake, even slightly, will have health benefits.

It takes efforts to build each book," Maclnnis tells me.

It will force them to pull their efforts together

make efforts to reach agreement on their family budgets

People must make more efforts to study nature.

Since this realization, I have begun to make an even more determined effort to find friends in unexpected people and places.

I keep mentioning how much effort it takes to keep going.

The peacefulness of cross-country skiing is the kind you earn by effort

He can't decide whether to include the effort part of skiing.

A lot of effort is made in vain

Along with this effort, we're working with animal advocates and state and federal lawmakers to strengthen anti-cruelty laws across the country, as well as supporting laws and policies that assist overburdened animal shelters that care for animal fighting

Clearly, there are plenty of ways to keep track of your job search and making the effort to simplify your job search will pay off.

For more than a decade, FedEx has supported the American Red Cross in its effort to get emergency supplies to areas affected by disasters, both domestically and internationally.

In an effort to understand the matter further, I spoke with doctors Mark Beckhoff a researcher and former professor of animal behavior.

So I have to make a real effort to practice.

That's what—six to eight hundred pounds! So this time I'll need to make a lot more effort and hopefully will be successful the first time.

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.

A winner is one with a great effort of will.

Another possibility is that when there is a lot of talent on a team, some players may make less effort.

As writer Caroline Alexander makes clear in her forceful and well-researched story the endurance, adventuring was even then a thoroughly commercial effort.

Because of our efforts, our daughter Georgia did decide to donate a large bag of toys to a little girl whose mother was unable to pay for her holiday due to illness.

But before they can be assured, more efforts must be made, because the population of the crane in the wild is on the decline, and many other species appear headed toward extinction.

Deliberate practice activities require effort, produce no immediate rewards, and are motivated by the goal of improving performance rather than the goal of enjoyment.

For example, she received the 2007 Brick Award recognizing the efforts of young people to change the world.

Her efforts made her a famous person.

His effort to reunite families with lost medals began with a christmas gift from his mother, a purple heart with the name corrado.

In an effort to prevent language loss, scholars from a number of organizations—UNESCO and national geographic among them—have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect.

It is important to remember that success is a sum of small efforts made each day and often takes years of achieve.

It saves time and effort in cooking.

Keep track of your efforts and write down how you feel.

Many scholars are making efforts to rescue disappearing languages.

More efforts, as reported, will be made in the years ahead to accelerate the supply-side structural reform.

One can find his way out of difficulties with efforts.

One thing is for certain—Larry went above and beyond the call of duty by getting so close to the burning vehicle! His efforts most likely saved the woman's life.

People make themselves into winners by their own efforts.

People's efforts have been materially rewarded.

Points were awarded for part-time jobs, housework, effort in school, and ability to deal with problems.

She was highly rewarded for her efforts.

So save yourself the effort for a future meal.

The efforts to fuel the growth of phytoplankton.

The environmental challenges are significant but the efforts made by the tanzania national park authority seem to be paying off.

The passage shows that the efforts to protect condors have brought good results.

The students have been working hard on their lessons and their efforts will be rewarded success in the end.

Their efforts have been proven fruitful.

These results, once again, lead to concrete advice: "once an individual begins volunteering, continued efforts might focus on developing a volunteer role identity.

Ways of arts' promoting our economy arts activity demands an joint/collective effort.

Whether you're looking at wallpaper or paint, the time, effort and relative expense put into it are significant.

While there are amazing stories of instant transformation, for most of us the changes are gradual and require a lot of effort and work, like cleaning up a polluted river.

With their patience and efforts, they successfully developed a combination of artificial breeding and natural reproduction.

In fat， circumstances seem to be designed to bring out the best in us and if we feel that we have been “wronged” then we are unlikely to begin a conscious effort to escape from our situation.

Toyota Motor, for example, alleviated some of the damage from its recall crisis earlier this year with a relatively quick and well-orchestrated social-media response campaign, which included efforts to engage with consumers directly on sites such as Twitter and the social-news site Digg.

The most famous of these efforts was initiated by Noam Chomsky, who suggested that humans are born with an innate language-acquisition capacity that dictates a universal grammar.

Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not challenge the constitutionality of Vermont’s rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

Though several fast-fashion companies have made efforts to curb their impact on labor and the environment – including H&M, with its green Conscious Collection line –Cline believes lasting change can only be effected by the customer.

“We’re doing these things because we know they help people stay off benefits and help those on benefits get into work faster” Help? Really? On first hearing, this was the socially concerned chancellor, trying to change lives for the better, complete with “reforms” to an obviously indulgent system that demands too little effort from the newly unemployed to find work, and subsidises laziness.

The policy follows similar efforts from other journals, after widespread concern that basic mistakes in data analysis are contributing to the irreproducibility of many published research findings.

But policymakers who refocus efforts on improving well-being rather than simply worrying about GDP figures could avoid the forecasted doom and may even see progress.

But on the more important matter of the Constitution,the decision was an 8-0 defeat for the Administration's effort to upset the balance of power between the federal government and the states.

However, because these connections are made through effort and practice, scientists believe that intelligence can expand and fluctuate according to mental effort.

In a series of four experiments, behavioral scientists at the University of Chicago and the Wisconsin School of Business tested students' willingness to expose themselves to unpleasant stimuli in an effort to satisfy curiosity.

Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not: challenge the constitutionality of Vermont's rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

It requires minimal effort and goes a long way.

On first hearing, this was the socially concerned chancellor, trying to change lives for the better, complete with "reforms" to an obviously indulgent system that demands too little effort from the newly unemployed to find work, and subsidises laziness.

Restrictions that keep highly polluting cars out of certain areas - city centers, school streets", even individual roads - are a response to the absence of a larger effort to properly enforce existing regulations and require auto companies to bring their

When you meet a person for the first time, make an effort to find the things which you and that person have in common so that you can build the conversation from that point.

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I'm afraid this essay is a poor effort.: 很抱歉，这篇文章写得不好。

the United Nations' peacekeeping effort: 联合国的维和行动

The local clubs are making every effort to interest more young people.: 地方俱乐部正在尽一切努力来吸引更多的年轻人。

We need to make a concerted effort to finish on time.: 我们需要通力合作才能按时完成。

I spent hours cleaning the house, but there isn't much to show for all my efforts .: 我花了几个小时来打扫房子，但费了这么大力气却看不到多少效果。

With an effort of will he resisted the temptation.: 他凭自己的意志顶住了这一诱惑。

The project was a joint/group effort.: 这项工程是共同 / 集体努力的结果。

the Russian space effort: 俄罗斯航天计划

to make an effort: 作出努力

The company has laid off 150 workers in an effort to save money.: 公司为节省资金遣散了150名工作人员。

I didn't really feel like going out, but I am glad I made the effort .: 我当时并不很想出去，不过我很庆幸还是出去了。

Getting up this morning was quite an effort (= it was difficult) .: 今天早上起床相当费力。

a determined/real/special effort: 坚决的 / 真正的 / 特别的努力

(British English) With (an) effort (= with difficulty) she managed to stop herself laughing.: 她好不容易才忍住了笑。

You should put more effort into your work.: 你应该更加努力地工作。

A lot of effort has gone into making this event a success.: 为使这次活动成功费了很大的劲。

It's a long climb to the top, but well worth the effort.: 爬到顶上路程很长，虽然费力却很值得。

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。

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。

...a famine relief effort in Angola.: 在安哥拉进行的饥荒救济行动

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。

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。

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。

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。

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