effort

英[ˈefət]
美[ˈefərt]

基本释义

  • n.努力; 吃力; 有组织的行动; 费力的事

词性变化

实用例句

I'm afraid this essay is a poor effort.

很抱歉,这篇文章写得不好。

牛津词典

the United Nations' peacekeeping effort

联合国的维和行动

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

With an effort of will he resisted the temptation.

他凭自己的意志顶住了这一诱惑。

牛津词典

The project was a joint/group effort.

这项工程是共同 / 集体努力的结果。

牛津词典

the Russian space effort

俄罗斯航天计划

牛津词典

to make an effort

作出努力

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

Getting up this morning was quite an effort (= it was difficult) .

今天早上起床相当费力。

牛津词典

a determined/real/special effort

坚决的 / 真正的 / 特别的努力

牛津词典

(British English) With (an) effort (= with difficulty) she managed to stop herself laughing.

她好不容易才忍住了笑。

牛津词典

You should put more effort into your work.

你应该更加努力地工作。

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

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。

真题例句

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

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

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.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

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.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

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.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

To show its effort to overcome complacency.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

optimistic about Obama's effort to reduce CO2 emissions

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

It will force them to pull their efforts together

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

make efforts to reach agreement on their family budgets

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

People must make more efforts to study nature.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2012年6月听力原文

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

出自-2011年6月听力原文

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

出自-2011年6月听力原文

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

出自-2011年6月听力原文

A lot of effort is made in vain

出自-2011年6月听力原文

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

2016年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A

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.

2018年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

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.

2019年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

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

2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

So I have to make a real effort to practice.

2016年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

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.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

The football team, the basketball team—that's our competition for resources, student time, attention, school dollars, parent efforts, school enthusiasm.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

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.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

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.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

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.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

When the health insurance industry was still cooperating in reform efforts, its trade group offered to provide standardized forms for automated processing.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Powerful opposition to government's stimulus efforts.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

One boy said, I'd rather be concentrating on artistic efforts than saving the world or something.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Is surgery, radiation or careful monitoring best for prostate 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.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

A new effort led by Canoe Ventures, a coalition of leading cable providers, aims to make interactive advertising available across America later this year.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

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.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

South Korea, which operates state-of-the-art bases here, is increasing its fishing of krill , found in abundance in the Southern Ocean, while Russia recently frustrated efforts to create one of the world's largest ocean sanctuaries here.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Efforts to create one of the world's largest ocean sanctuaries failed because of Russia's obstruction.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Calling on all the nations concerned to make joint efforts.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

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.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

It is most imperative to focus our efforts on the elimination of income inequality.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Inertia is the resistance of objects to efforts to change their state of motion.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Efforts to accelerate the current energy transitions didn't succeed as expected.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

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。

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

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.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Their solutions need joint efforts of the public and private sectors.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Thus, my IDP will be most effective when it's embedded in larger career-development efforts

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

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.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

In face of global warming, much effort has been focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions through a variety of strategies.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

The core objective for universities which are research-led must be to maximise the impact of their research efforts.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

With effort and money, the graduation gap can be closed.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

Barry Mills, the president of Bowdoin College, was justifiably proud of Bowdoin's efforts to recruit minority students.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

In the decades to 2050, America will find itself playing an ever-increasing role in the developed world's defence effort.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

to promote the teaching of literature and the arts in an effort to make the case for democratic freedoms

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

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).

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

His untiring effort to fulfill his potential

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

But even then there is no guarantee that their efforts will work.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

You diligence is worthy of encouragement, but effort does not equal accomplishment.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

The example of Rembrandt's painting suggests that a distinction should be made between effort and accomplishment

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

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.

出自-2012年12月听力原文

Put more effort into preparing for the presentation.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

As an EU-funded effort, the search for salt-tolerant varieties of rice is taking place in all three countries.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

At other times, we personify products in an effort to understand them.

2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A

I think she is to be commended for making an effort to include anecdotes about little known female scientist.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

It's up to your own self-discipline, how much effort you put into study.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

Maintaining relationships over the long term takes effort.

2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

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

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Of course you're going to want to work harder and put the time and effort into it.

2016年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

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.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

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.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

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.

2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

The marketing is tempting: Get stronger muscles and healthier bodies with minimal effort by adding protein powder to your morning shake or juice drink.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

The pending bills would spend additional money to accelerate this effort.

2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

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.

2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Under this scheme, the number of individual working hours is reduced in an effort to avoid layoffs.

2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

A winner is one with a great effort of will.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 选项

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

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

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

2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

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.

2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

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.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文

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

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读表达 原文

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

2017年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文

Her efforts made her a famous person.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

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

2019年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

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.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

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

2015年高考英语湖南卷 单项选择 原文

It saves time and effort in cooking.

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

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

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Many scholars are making efforts to rescue disappearing languages.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 题设

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

2016年高考英语江苏卷 单项填空 原文

One can find his way out of difficulties with efforts.

2015年高考英语重庆卷 阅读理解 阅读A 选项

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.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 完形填空 原文

People make themselves into winners by their own efforts.

2018年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

People's efforts have been materially rewarded.

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项

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

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

She was highly rewarded for her efforts.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

So save yourself the effort for a future meal.

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 原文

The efforts to fuel the growth of phytoplankton.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

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

2019年高考英语全国卷I 完形填空 原文

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

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 题设

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

2016年高考英语北京卷 单项选择 原文

Their efforts have been proven fruitful.

2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

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

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

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

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 填空题 原文

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

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 七选五 原文

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.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 语法填空 原文

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

2019年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文

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.

出自-2011年考研翻译原文

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.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

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.

出自-2012年考研翻译原文

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.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

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.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

“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.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

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.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

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.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

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.

2013年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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

2014年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

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.

2018年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

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.

2012年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

It requires minimal effort and goes a long way.

2020年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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.

2014年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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

2020年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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.

2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Noun
  • 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"

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。