strive的意思|strive的解释-里氏词典

strive [straɪv]

vi. 努力, 奋斗, 斗争

strive
striven, strove

[ verb ]

attempt by employing effort

<verb.social>

endeavor

endeavour

we endeavor to make our customers happy

to exert much effort or energy

<verb.competition>

reach

strain

straining our ears to hear

Strive \Strive\, n.
1. An effort; a striving. [R.] --Chapman.

2. Strife; contention. [Obs.] --Wyclif (luke xxi. 9).

Strive \Strive\, v. i. [imp. {Strove}; p. p. {Striven}(Rarely,
{Strove}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Striving}.] [OF. estriver; of
Teutonic origin, and akin to G. streben, D. streven, Dan.
str[ae]be, Sw. str["a]fva. Cf. {Strife}.]
1. To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with
earnestness; to labor hard.

Was for this his ambition strove
To equal C[ae]sar first, and after, Jove? --Cowley.

2. To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute;
to contend; to contest; -- followed by against or with
before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against
temptation; strive for the truth. --Chaucer.

My Spirit shall not always strive with man. --Gen.
vi. 3.

Why dost thou strive against him? --Job xxxiii.
13.

Now private pity strove with public hate,
Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate. --Denham.

3. To vie; to compete; to be a rival. --Chaucer.

[Not] that sweet grove
Of Daphne, by Orontes and the inspired
Castalian spring, might with this paradise
Of Eden strive. --Milton.

Syn: To contend; vie; struggle; endeavor; aim.

Bush also backs expanded aid for magnet schools, which strive for excellence through academic specialties.
But although artifice plays a major role in property design, theater professionals strive to make their fake edibles look real.
But Mr. Whitmore has calmed concerns, for now, by saying Kodak will strive to be leaders in both areas.
The cartel should strive, instead, to foster stability in world oil markets by keeping prices balanced with production, Saudi Arabia and its allies said.
Mr Cedric Brown, senior managing director, said: 'We have a good record but are not complacent and must continually strive to improve.' Sir James said the Citizen's Charter would increase British Gas's obligations to customers.
Tudjman said his party would strive to "enlist other democratic forces" in forming Croatia's new government.
On Lithuania's strive for independence from the Soviet Union, the two countries agree on the need for restraint.
'It must strive to keep hopes of further interest rate cuts alive.
The head of OPEC said Tuesday the cartel will strive toward price stability and review its petroleum production at a summer meeting.
Just as an actor playing a drunk must do everything possible to strive for sobriety, so good farce should tether itself to seriousness.
Thus, it is not necessarily true that raising capital standards for banks will leave them stronger; in fact, if banks must strive to meet higher capital requirements they may weaken themselves by increasing the relative riskiness of their portfolios.
Bowlers such as Andrew Caddick who strive to find an edge go from strength to strength.
The politicians and other secular powers should strive by their measures to bring out the good in people and to fight down the bad; but they can't create the one or abolish the other.
Six educational testing organizations on Monday unveiled a new code of practices that commits them to strive for fairness in tests given students of different races, sex or ethnic backgrounds.
This is not about Allen and his troubles; it is about all of us and our troubles. As the camera judders and pans around the chic New York sitting rooms, lives strive to stay upright in the hurricane.
Hoist a frothy stein to Siebel Institute of Technology _ Brewmaster U. _ where all the students strive for better beer.
Aspirin makers, of course, will strive to differentiate their brands in consumers' minds.
"We will strive to improve Yugoslavia's relations with the developed nations, particularly with Europe," Drnovsek said in his inaugural speech.
We must strive to put the country at the cutting edge of economic innovation and the global economy.
It was the result of hard work _ and of resolve and sacrifice on the part of those who love freedom and dare to strive for it.
As supply increases, Mr. Mathews of Van Kampen Merritt says he will strive to be selective and increase the amount of smaller issues he holds in the portfolio.
She does strive to impart some real information, as befits the creative director of Bride's magazine.
As companies strive to ensure their high-tech products turn out to be hits rather than embarrassments, they have to take considerable risks.
A toaster factory can't waste time making extra knobs when it must strive to meet the total toaster target.
He said in the October 1992 Equity News that, 'While I believe that publicly funded projects should strive to reflect the values that most communities share, I strongly support and will defend freedom of speech and artistic expression.'
Only strong incentives for success and penalties for failure will force schools to strive for the management restructuring and renewal that many U.S. corporations had to undertake to survive foreign competition in the 1980s, Mr. Shanker argues.
"This report will be very helpful for us as we continually strive to improve our performance," said Ted Feigenbaum, president of New Hampshire Yankee, the plant's operator.
That's the ideal we strive for." A convict and his girlfriend united their palms to protest the man's robbery conviction and stuck together for 21 hours.
"We will never catch up with them and never leave them behind and we do not need to strive for this.
"This does not mean we are returning to the situation of March 10," she told reporters, underlining Lithuania's determination to strive for independence.

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