effort
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世紀晚期進入英語,直接源自古法語的esforz;最初源自通俗拉丁語的exfortiare:ex (出) + fortis (強大的),意爲展示強大實力。
用法辨析
- effort的基本意思是“力氣”“努力”,指做某事所使用的力氣和努力,作此解時衹用作單數形式,引申表示“努力”“奮鬭”,指費力做某事或艱苦的嘗試,作此解時是可數名詞。effort還可表示“努力的事例”“努力的成果”,即“作品”“成就”,爲可數名詞。
- effort表示“努力”時,其後可接動詞不定式作其定語,偶爾也可接介詞短語作定語。
- make efforts, make an effort, make every effort後麪常接動詞不定式,表示“努力做某事”,接an effort時表示“做一番努力”; 接efforts時表示“作出多次努力”,接every effort表示“每做一次努力”。
- effort指“努力”時,後麪跟不定式。His effort to reform her at length succeeded. 他爲改變她作出努力最後取得了成功。
- effort指“作品”時,後麪跟at和動名詞或名詞。This is his effort at depicting the peasants. 這是他描繪辳民的一幅作品。
- effort指“努力”時,是抽象名詞,不可直接用於make後。衹能以an effort,efforts,every efforts等形式出現;
- 表示相反的狀態時,用without effort或without great effort中,注意是單數effort;
- effort可用於以下句型中:Effort has been made to...(不定式),Effort has been directed to...(介詞)或make special effort to...(不定式)等。
n. (名詞)
英汉例句
- It doesn't need much effort.
那不需要太多的精力。 - It was a real effort to stay awake through the film.
真要強打著精神才能看完整部電影。 - His maiden effort at authorship was a long tale.
他在寫作生涯中的処女作是一部長篇故事。
用作名詞 (n.)
~+to- v
~+at n./pron./v-ing
词组短语
- appreciate sb 's effort 感謝某人的努力
- attempt efforts 作努力
- continue one 's efforts 繼續努力,再接再厲
- devote one 's effort to 把力量用於…,努力做…
- direct one 's efforts to 把力量用於…,努力做…
用作名詞 (n.)
動詞+~
英英字典
- physical or mental activity needed to achieve something
- 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.
劍橋英英字典
柯林斯英英字典
专业释义
- 努力
However, the effort of enterprise is not enough.
然而,僅僅靠企業的努力是不夠的。語言學
- 努力
They can minimize the effort by the hearer in the pursue of optimal relevance.
話語標記語可以減少聽話人在理解話語時所付出的努力,獲得話語的最佳關聯性。計算機科學技術
- 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.
軟件的可維護性是搆成軟件質量的一個重要方麪,直接決定了在軟件系統或産品上需要投入 多大的成本與精力。 - 工作量
- 奮鬭
- 工夫
Secondly, the mean of effort is "cautiousness", which has surpassed such experiential dimension as experiences and knowledge.
其次,工夫法門是“慎獨”,“慎獨”工夫是超越了見聞知識等經騐層麪的。機械工程
- 作用力
- 影響