英语词汇“strive”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINstrive

Origin:

1100-1200 Old French estriver

VERB TABLE

strive

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	strive
	he, she, it	strives
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	strove
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have striven
	he, she, it	has striven
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had striven
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will strive
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have striven

Continuous Form
Present	I	am striving
	he, she, it	is striving
	you, we, they	are striving
Past	I, he, she, it	was striving
	you, we, they	were striving
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been striving
	he, she, it	has been striving
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been striving
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be striving
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been striving

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

The company must constantly strive for greater efficiency.
Toni has been striving to achieve musical recognition for the past ten years.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Even when the judicial structure does strive to maintain some political independence, it still might respond to political pressure.
Indeed the Customer Service Charter featured below sets out the level of service we strive to sustain.
It defines what is important, worthwhile and worth striving for.
She strove daily to be the perfect wife.
The film strives for a surface kind of cynicism, only to invoke the Love Conquers All escape clause in the end.
The many affirmations are either on what the self or others should strive for-to do or to become.
They commit themselves to strive for its elimination.
Which - she strove to be positive - left her the whole day in which to take her ease in Mariánské Láznë.

THESAURUS► try

to take action in order to do something that you may not be able to do: · I tried to explain what was wrong.· He tries hard in class, but he’s finding the work difficult.

► attempt

to try to do something, especially something difficult. Attempt is more formal than try and is used especially in written English: · Any prisoner who attempts to escape will be shot.· He was attempting to climb one of the world’s highest mountains.

► do your best

to try as hard as you can to do something: · We will do our best to help them.

► make an effort to do something

to try to do something, when you find this difficult: · It is worth making an effort to master these skills.· She made a big effort to be nice to him.

► struggle

to try very hard to do something that is very difficult, especially for a long time: · She’s still struggling to give up smoking.· Many of these families are struggling to survive.

► strive

formal to try very hard to achieve something: · The company must constantly strive for greater efficiency.

► endeavour

British English, endeavor American English formal to try hard to do something: · Each employee shall endeavour to provide customers with the best service possible.

► have a go/try

informal to try to do something, especially when you are not sure that you will succeed: · I’m not very good at fixing taps, but I’ll have a go.· Do you want to have another try?

► see if you can do something

spoken to try to do something – used when offering to do something, or suggesting that someone should do something: · I’ll see if I can get you a ticket.· See if you can persuade her to come.

Longman Language Activatorto try very hard to do something► try hard

to make a lot of effort, because you want very much to do something: · No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get the window to open.try hard to do something: · I was trying hard not to laugh.· You must try harder to get your homework done on time.

► make an effort

to try hard to do something, especially something you do not want to do but you think you should do: · Can't you make more of an effort?make an effort to do something: · I made an effort to sound interested in what he was saying.· I wish you'd make an effort to get on with my friends.make no effort to do something: · She makes absolutely no effort to see the other person's point of view.

► strive

formal to try hard to achieve something, especially when this is difficult: strive to do something: · Toni has been striving to achieve musical recognition for the past ten years.strive for: · The company must constantly strive for greater efficiency.

► be at pains to do something

to make a lot of effort to do something, especially to explain something people do not understand correctly: · Mrs Henessy was at pains to say that she was fighting for a principle, not just for financial compensation.

► go to great lengths to do something

to be willing to use any method that is necessary in order to achieve something, even if this involves being dishonest, breaking the law etc: · Health professionals have gone to great lengths to reassure patients that the treatment is safe.· Some firms will go to great lengths, including spying, to obtain information about their competitors.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► always

· We always strove to get a solution that was acceptable all round.· Artists in this tradition have always striven to celebrate the present by prolonging it into the future.· This is the nature of sciences and pseudo-sciences, always striving for a set of rules and final solutions.

► constantly

· Governments are constantly striving to create equality thus avoiding conflict and hardship such as this Court ruling has done.· Moreover, the struggling organization should strive constantly to legitimize its policies and procedures, and the decisions and beliefs behind them.· In this way the film strives constantly to dispossess the characters.· Equilibrium is a necessary condition toward which the organism constantly strives.· We are constantly striving to improve and to do this, we need to know what you think.· Commitment to the health service means constantly striving for better ways forward.· Since those early days, telecommunications Companies have been striving constantly to make the network intelligent once again.· A charity such as ours must constantly strive for greater efficiency, to put every penny of your subscription to good use.

► for

· It defines what is important, worthwhile and worth striving for.· Within their own group there was little to strive for since there were no clearly identifiable roles available.

NOUN► customer

· Indeed the Customer Service Charter featured below sets out the level of service we strive to sustain.· So while businesses strive to please customers, government agencies strive to please interest groups.· He strives to please his customers.

► government

· Here and elsewhere, the government strove to identify itself with new themes.· So while businesses strive to please customers, government agencies strive to please interest groups.

► man

· I was now just impersonally a man, striving against the elements.· He said a man strives, a woman maintains.· In most societies men strive to be polygamists but few succeed.

► people

· We also see many people striving to improve these conditions.· The Hebrew people did not strive to read and write in order to decipher technical instructions.· There was much activity at Brooklands as people strove to get ready for their attempts.· On the contrary, this book is for people who strive to do that.· Here were young people striving for the noblest ideals.· The province of the mind. People strove to be free of Nature, seeing it as something outside of themselves.