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。

• effort相关词

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。

• effort使用方法
• effort详细辨析

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。

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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…

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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.

• effort剑桥字典
• effort柯林斯字典

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