endeavor是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 努力， 尽力， 力图，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cheerfully, most cheerfully, will Cora and I keep the vigils, while you and all these brave men endeavor to snatch a little sleep!'
-- It is true, they endeavor to make truces to the wicked one as who would not with an enemy he can-not conquer!but they look up for favor and assistance to the Great and Good Spirit only.'
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They writhed, clawed their hair, scratched their chins, bit their fingers, and beat their temples in the endeavor to give the right answer before Angus Duer should read it to them out of the textbook.
-- Gottlieb lost his temper: "Do you make an endeavor to find positions for teachers, or do you merely send out circulars to amuse yourself?
-- It was agreed that if Martin could find in St. Hubert a district which was comparatively untouched by the plague, he should there endeavor to have test cases, one half injected with phage, one half untreated.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That is why I am following her, and I will be near her, and will endeavor to relieve her condition as far as I am able."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was quite in vain for me to endeavor to make him sensible that he ought to speak to Miss Havisham.
-- But after I had had my new suit on some half an hour, and had gone through an immensity of posturing with Mr. Pumblechook's very limited dressing-glass, in the futile endeavor to see my legs, it seemed to fit me better.
-- said Herbert, getting up with a lively shake as if he had been asleep, and stirring the fire, "now I'll endeavor to make myself agreeable again!"
-- He added that he did not pretend to say what he might or might not have done to Compeyson, but that, in the moment of his laying his hand on his cloak to identify him, that villain had staggered up and staggered back, and they had both gone overboard together, when the sudden wrenching of him (Magwitch) out of our boat, and the endeavor of his captor to keep him in it, had capsized us.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I will endeavor to climb to the summit of Sneffels, and, if possible, will descend into its crater."
-- We will now tranquilly resume our journey by land, and once again endeavor to dive into the centre of the earth."
-- Still, we will endeavor to approximate to the truth.
-- "Calm yourself, my dear boy, and endeavor to use your reason.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They did not forget their motto, but hoping and keeping busy seemed to grow easier, and after such tremendous exertions, they felt that Endeavor deserved a holiday, and gave it a good many.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No possible endeavor then could enable her commander to make the great passage southwards, double Cape Horn, and then running down sixty degrees of latitude arrive in the equatorial Pacific in time to cruise there.
-- But by desperate endeavor we at last shot into a temporary opening; then giving way rapidly, and at the same time earnestly watching for another outlet.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She took the first opportunity of affronting her mother-in-law on the occasion, talking to her so expressively of her brother's great expectations, of Mrs. Ferrars's resolution that both her sons should marry well, and of the danger attending any young woman who attempted to DRAW HIM IN; that Mrs. Dashwood could neither pretend to be unconscious, nor endeavor to be calm.
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