effort
常用用法
- 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(shí)只用作單數(shù)形式,引申表示“努力”“奮斗”,指費(fèi)力做某事或艱苦的嘗試,作此解時(shí)是可數(shù)名詞。effort還可表示“努力的事例”“努力的成果”,即“作品”“成就”,為可數(shù)名詞。
- effort表示“努力”時(shí),其后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后面常接動詞不定式,表示“努力做某事”,接an effort時(shí)表示“做一番努力”; 接efforts時(shí)表示“作出多次努力”,接every effort表示“每做一次努力”。
- effort指“努力”時(shí)，后面跟不定式。His effort to reform her at length succeeded. 他為改變她作出努力最后取得了成功。
- effort指“作品”時(shí)，后面跟at和動名詞或名詞。This is his effort at depicting the peasants. 這是他描繪農(nóng)民的一幅作品。
- effort指“努力”時(shí)，是抽象名詞，不可直接用于make后。只能以an effort，efforts，every efforts等形式出現(xiàn)；
- 表示相反的狀態(tài)時(shí)，用without effort或without great effort中，注意是單數(shù)effort；
- effort可用于以下句型中：Effort has been made to...（不定式），Effort has been directed to...（介詞）或make special effort to...（不定式）等。 返回 effort
n. (名詞)
詞語辨析
- 這組詞都可作“努力”解。其區(qū)別是：
- effort(s)著重指動作的本身; endeavour(s)著重作出努力的認(rèn)真和決心; exertion(s)著重于動作的積極性或劇烈性; bid著重于為達(dá)到某種企圖而作出的努力; pain(s)側(cè)重為完成某事花費(fèi)氣力。例如:
- I will make a great effort to master English我會努力掌握英語。
- The cabinet is making all possible endeavours to bring about national economic stabilization.政府內(nèi)閣將盡最大努力使國家經(jīng)濟(jì)趨于穩(wěn)定。
- I was quite hot and tired after all my exertions.用力干后,我又熱又累。
- Our Department is making a bid for the interdepartmental basketball championship.我們系正力求奪取系際的籃球賽冠軍。
- For thirty years,Teacher Liu has been taking great pains in educating us.30年來,劉教員一直勞心努力地教育我們。 返回 effort