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effort

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音标发音

  • 英式音标 [ˈef.ət]
  • 美式音标 [ˈef.ɚt]
  • 国际音标 ['efət]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • n.努力；努力的成果

词源解说

  • 15世纪晚期进入英语，直接源自古法语的esforz；最初源自通俗拉丁语的exfortiare：ex (出） + fortis (强大的），意为展示强大实力。

同根派生

  • adj性质的同根词
    effortless：容易的；不费力气的。
    effortful：需要努力的；显示努力的；充满努力的。

用法辨析

    n. (名词)

  • effort的基本意思是“力气”“努力”,指做某事所使用的力气和努力,作此解时只用作单数形式,引申表示“努力”“奋斗”,指费力做某事或艰苦的尝试,作此解时是可数名词。effort还可表示“努力的事例”“努力的成果”,即“作品”“成就”,为可数名词。
  • effort表示“努力”时,其后可接动词不定式作其定语,偶尔也可接介词短语作定语。
  • make efforts, make an effort, make every effort后面常接动词不定式,表示“努力做某事”,接an effort时表示“做一番努力”; 接efforts时表示“作出多次努力”,接every effort表示“每做一次努力”。
  • effort指“努力”时，后面跟不定式。His effort to reform her at length succeeded. 他为改变她作出努力最后取得了成功。
  • effort指“作品”时，后面跟at和动名词或名词。This is his effort at depicting the peasants. 这是他描绘农民的一幅作品。
  • effort指“努力”时，是抽象名词，不可直接用于make后。只能以an effort，efforts，every efforts等形式出现；
  • 表示相反的状态时，用without effort或without great effort中，注意是单数effort；
  • effort可用于以下句型中：Effort has been made to...（不定式），Effort has been directed to...（介词）或make special effort to...（不定式）等。

英汉例句

    用作名词 (n.)

  • It doesn't need much effort.
    那不需要太多的精力。

    • ～+to- v

  • It was a real effort to stay awake through the film.
    真要强打着精神才能看完整部电影。

    • ～+at n./pron./v-ing

  • His maiden effort at authorship was a long tale.
    他在写作生涯中的处女作是一部长篇故事。

词组短语

    用作名词 (n.)

    动词+～

  • appreciate sb 's effort 感谢某人的努力
  • attempt efforts 作努力
  • continue one 's efforts 继续努力,再接再厉
  • devote one 's effort to 把力量用于…,努力做…
  • direct one 's efforts to 把力量用于…,努力做…

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • physical or mental activity needed to achieve something

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you make an effort to do something, you try very hard to do it.
  • If you say that someone did something with effort or with an effort, you mean it was difficult for them to do.
  • An effort is a particular series of activities that is organized by a group of people in order to achieve something.
  • If you say that something is an effort, you mean that an unusual amount of physical or mental energy is needed to do it.
  • 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.

专业释义

    经济学

  • 努力

    However, the effort of enterprise is not enough.
    然而，仅仅靠企业的努力是不够的。

    语言学

  • 努力

    They can minimize the effort by the hearer in the pursue of optimal relevance.
    话语标记语可以减少听话人在理解话语时所付出的努力,获得话语的最佳关联性。

    计算机科学技术

  • 精力

    Software maintainability is a key aspect of quality to software, which directly impact how much effort and cost will be spent on related systems or productions.
    软件的可维护性是构成软件质量的一个重要方面,直接决定了在软件系统或产品上需要投入 多大的成本与精力。

  • 工作量

    • 艺术学

  • 奋斗

    • 哲学

  • 工夫

    Secondly, the mean of effort is "cautiousness", which has surpassed such experiential dimension as experiences and knowledge.
    其次,工夫法门是“慎独”,“慎独”工夫是超越了见闻知识等经验层面的。

    机械工程

  • 作用力

    • 水利工程

  • 影响