Endeavour

v.i. to strive to accomplish an object: to attempt or try.—v.t. to attempt.—n. an exertion of power towards some object: attempt or trial.—n. Endeav′ourment (Spens.) endeavour.—Do one's endeavour to do one's utmost.

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• Unable to rest or sleep, she quitted her asylum early, that she might again endeavour to find my brother. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• I am induced by what you said just now, said I, to hope that you have succeeded in your endeavour. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I might, perhaps, wish to be informed why, with so little _endeavour_ at civility, I am thus rejected. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• We will endeavour to do our duty by her, and she will, at least, have the advantage of companions of her own age, and of a regular instructress. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• I only doubted whether or not I should endeavour to see Idris again, before I departed. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• This was thrown out, and so too was a sentence about the British: we must endeavour to forget our former love for them . 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I will endeavour to take care, sir. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• My affections are wounded; it is impossible to heal them:--cease then the vain endeavour, if indeed that way your endeavours tend. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The teachers, animated solely by good intentions, had no idea of execution, and a lamentable jumble was the upshot of their kind endeavours. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I do my endeavours in my line of life, sir. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• These discoveries were made by Scheele in his endeavours to find in light the source of phlogiston--that _ignis fatuus_ of the chemists of the last century. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Every man endeavours to supply, by his own industry, his own occasional wants, as they occur. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I related my adventures of the night, my endeavours to find our lost one, and my disappointment. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Each turns her towards his companion, or endeavours to intercept her when his companion turns her towards himself. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Clara, though she endeavoured to give herself up to his amusement, often forgot him, as she turned to observe Adrian and me. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• For a year or more I had endeavoured to find a satisfactory answer to her often-repeated question, 'What I would like to be? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I shut my eyes involuntarily, and endeavoured to recollect what were my duties with regard to this destroyer. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• We endeavoured in vain to abstract Clara from this deplorable scene. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• In a few minutes after, I heard the creaking of my door, as if some one endeavoured to open it softly. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Other writers, of a different stamp, with great learning and gravity, endeavoured to prove to the English people that slavery was _jure divino_. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Carez, a printer of Toul, who, in 1791, endeavoured to obtain casts in lead from a page of type, by allowing it to drop on the fused metal when it was in a state of setting. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• You are endeavouring to disarm me by reason, and to convince me against my will. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• I, at least, was taken up with endeavouring to soothe Fifine; whose cries (for she had good lungs) were appalling to hear. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The reader must keep in mind that we are endeavouring to give him plain statements that he can take hold of comfortably. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I continued walking in this manner for some time, endeavouring, by bodily exercise, to ease the load that weighed upon my mind. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• The dog is let loose at night to prevent him from endeavouring to communicate with her. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Then, in endeavouring to do violence to my own disposition, I made all worse than before. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Merely to the illustration of _your_ character, said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.

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