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n. 努力,奋斗

  1. Striving to overcome in argument; combative.
    好争议的努力争取在争论中获胜的;好战的
  2. The aspect of mental processes or behavior directed toward action or change and including impulse, desire, volition, and striving.
    意动引起包括冲动、欲望、暴力和奋斗等外在行动或变化的心理方面的活动或行为


striving
[ noun ]
an effortful attempt to attain a goal
<noun.act>


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.


Striving \Striv"ing\,
a. & n. from {Strive}. -- {Striv"ing*ly}, adv.

  1. You see people there striving less to be cool than people here."
  2. Now, instead of following other makers, Matsushita is striving to become a leading marketer of high-definition television, the next major advance in audio-visual equipment, expected to go on sale next year.
  3. And speaking of trends, the most interesting one this season is how many shows are striving to be politically correct.
  4. Now, he's striving to be a model of rectitude after a life of booze and women.
  5. It also allows them to forge associations nationally and internationally. Surely an enlightened electorate and responsive global democracy is worth striving for. But the era of increased interactivity poses two main challenges to government and the media.
  6. The Soviet legislature approved a 1990 budget yesterday that halves its huge deficit with cuts in defense spending and capital outlays while striving to improve supplies to frustrated consumers.
  7. Coaches and trainers striving to keep their players fit and keep injuries to a minimum have added wireless heart rate monitoring units to their list of equipment.
  8. Mr. Fukuyama acknowledges the danger, but argues that liberal democracy nonetheless will best fulfill mankind's striving for respect.
  9. Vietnam is striving to solve the Kampuchean (Cambodian) issue." He said if possible, Vietnam will withdraw all its estimated 120,000 soldiers before 1990, its self-imposed deadline for a total pullout.
  10. Both will be striving for a $36 billion package that, in the Senate, consists at least one-third of tax increases and, in the House, at least one-half of tax increases.
  11. The Foreign Office was also striving to head off the breakdown in trade relations. The sanctions are similar to those imposed under Malaysia's 'Buy British Last' policy in the early 1980s after Britain withdrew subsidies for foreign students.
  12. Quaker Oats, whose annuals are among the world's best, "is on record as planning to continue holding nothing back from the annual report and to keep striving for greater readability and more graphic comprehensibility.
  13. Chinese officials are striving to hold down a population of 1.1 billion, the largest in the world.
  14. It is expressed in a new and intense striving of many Bulgarians, particularly from the younger generations, to find the moral foundations of their existence, to rediscover age-old values and ideals.
  15. In an Oct. 13 meeting, Gorbachev reportedly accused Afanasyev and two economists of joining with Communist legislator Boris N. Yeltsin to form "a fascist clique striving for power." They men belong to a parliamentary opposition group.
  16. The government and the central bank are at one in striving towards this goal, believing that in the long term a single European market without a single currency is not workable.
  17. But supporters say Uno's high-ranking Cabinet posts in a country striving for a stronger international role have made him a familiar figure to the Japanese public.
  18. Their behaviour contrasts starkly with the continued striving of large Japanese companies, even in their current straitened circumstances, to hang on to the employees in which they have invested so much.
  19. We know full well what we are striving for," he said.
  20. Barth also said asset levels and deposit flows in September show that S&Ls are striving to meet tough new capital standards, announced Monday and effective Dec. 7, by shrinking their portfolios rather than by raising new capital.
  21. The opposition was shown that relentlessness in striving for freedom has got to be combined with political realism." Solidarity had called on factories nationwide to sound sirens at noon in memory of the day still vividly and painfully remembered.
  22. Vietnam is striving to solve the Cambodian issue." Do Muoi, 71, was elected on Wednesday.
  23. However, international companies striving for a global market presence cannot ignore it. The growing pace of trade with Chile and economic integration with Brazil through the Mercosur customs union make the regional dimension increasingly important.
  24. They say the main motive is that S&Ls are striving now to compete with commercial banks, offering consumer services like checking accounts and car loans, and it's believed that most people think such services come from banks rather than thrifts.
  25. Previously, women weren't striving toward such jobs, program officials say.
  26. Thus, only 5% of the people in Mr. Hart's part of the study think that American business is listening to them and striving to do its best.
  27. Leaving aside the primitive historicizing, how does such a glib equation fit into a context striving for fine discriminations?
  28. Other countries move forward, embracing new concepts and approaches, Britain does not. A strange gene in the British make up produces a distaste for striving too hard - it is better to hold something back than go for broke.
  29. Bush was asked if he would be willing to consider emergency food aid for Eastern Germany, whose citizens are among millions in Eastern Europe striving for greater freedoms after four decades of communist rule.
  30. A 38-year-old Alabama native with a polite Southern manner, Mr. Johnson is striving to achieve credibility in the financial markets, where confidence in the central bank is essential.
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