1.[u][c]气力；努力；费力的事the physical or mental energy that you need to do sth; sth that takes a lot of energy
You should put more effort into your work.你应该更加努力地工作。
A lot of effort has gone into making this event a success.为使这次活动成功费了很大的劲。
It's a long climb to the top, but well worth the effort.爬到顶上路程很长，虽然费力却很值得。
Getting up this morning was quite an effort(= it was difficult) .今天早上起床相当费力。
With (an) effort(= with difficulty) she managed to stop herself laughing.她好不容易才忍住了笑。
2.[c]艰难的尝试；试图；尽力an attempt to do sth especially when it is difficult to do
a determined/real/special effort坚决的╱真正的╱特别的努力
to make an effort作出努力
I didn't really feel like going out, but I am glad I made the effort .我当时并不很想出去，不过我很庆幸还是出去了。
The company has laid off 150 workers in an effort to save money.公司为节省资金遣散了 150 名工人。
The local clubs are making every effort to interest more young people.地方俱乐部正在尽一切努力来吸引更多的年轻人。
We need to make a concerted effort to finish on time.我们需要通力合作才能按时完成。
I spent hours cleaning the house, but there isn't much to show for all my efforts .我花了几个小时来打扫房子，但费了这么大力气却看不到多少效果。
With an effort of will he resisted the temptation.他凭自己的意志顶住了这一诱惑。
The project was a joint/group effort.这项工程是共同╱集体努力的结果。
3.[c]有组织的活动a particular activity that a group of people organize in order to achieve sth
the Russian space effort俄罗斯航天计划
the United Nations' peacekeeping effort联合国的维和行动
4.[c]努力的结果；成就the result of an attempt to do sth
I'm afraid this essay is a poor effort.很抱歉，这篇文章写得不好。
"Pau had a fine game, " he said, referring to Pau Gasol's 25-point, 12-rebound effort. He mentioned no other names.
“加索尔打得不错，”杰克逊说。加索尔获得了25分和12个篮板，不过杰克逊并没有提及其他任何人。
Everybody seems to think art is spontaneous. But Tiger Mom, you taught me that even creativity takes effort.
看来所有人都认为艺术是自发的.但虎妈妈你教我们，即使创作也要付出努力.我想在小学我与其他孩子有些少不同，但谁说是坏事呢？
How much effort do you put into improving Gmail's speed and performance?
在改善Gmail速度和性能方面你们做了多少努力？
For her part, Jolie makes a modicum of effort with her cut-glass accent, but mostly lets her eyes, lips and hips do the work.
女主角，朱莉对她那种能“切碎玻璃”的口音做了微不足道的调整，不过大部分的工作都是靠她的眼睛，嘴唇和臀部来完成的。
But Jolin is not the same, she said " my greatest effort to try to complete. "
但蔡依林不一样，她说尽自己最大努力“试着去完成。”
"It appears that the heart is insulated from the intensity" of the intervals, she said, "because the effort is so brief. "
她说，“因为运动时间很短，心脏似乎完全没有受到这种高强度运动的影响”。
He said some opponents are trying to delay the process as much as they can, in hopes of killing the entire reform effort.
他说有些反对者正企图尽可能地拖延有关进程，想要阻止整个改革的努力。
To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, she asked the maintenance man to show the girls how much effort was required.
为了说明把镜子擦干净有多困难，校长让清洁工给女孩们演示这要花费多大的力气。
Odie, let's talk effort versus return here. you know , you can still lead a pointless life without all that running around.
（名字）我们谈谈努力与回报的问题吧。要知道，你用不着那样无头苍蝇的奔来跑去，也一样能过上毫无意义的生活。
For some technologies, the costs and trouble simply don't justify the resources and effort that go into generating a little bit of energy.
对于一些技术，相比实现它所需解决的困难，加之付出的精力和财力，所节约的能源不过只是九牛一毛。
Camera crews have been thrown out of a hospital in the Dadaab refugee camp, in Kenya, in an effort to preserve the dignity of the patients.
在一次努力保卫病人尊严的行动中，多家摄制组被从肯尼亚Dadaab难民营的一所医院里赶出。
But in an effort to allay public fears on the urban campus, police have said the killing was not a "random act" .
但是为了努力缓和公众对耶鲁大学的这一恐怖印象，警方表明，此事件绝非“随意行为”。
Patton says in the last five years, there has been an effort to clean up the air within the two ports, and they are not the only ones.
帕顿说，过去五年来，他们一直努力清洁这两座港口的空气。
The horse was not capable of any very sustained effort, and its gallop soon subsided into a trot, and its trot into an easy walk.
这马缺乏耐力，很快由奔驰变成小跑，由小跑变成便步。
No matter how much time and effort we lavish in making it look good, it'll leave us when we die.
无论我们浪费多少时间和精力装扮它，当我们死了，它还是会离开我们的。
After two month restless effort, the police finally tracked the criminal down in a southern city.
经过两个月的不懈努力，警方终于在一个南方城市找到了罪犯的踪迹。
The tentative and modest offers it has made so far look like an effort to find that middle ground.
到目前为止，中国所做援助承诺金额不大，且带有试探性，这似乎是在努力寻找一种平衡。
Focus: Effort, Attention, concentration, motivation, application, single mindedness emphasis, to name but a few of its synonyms.
专注的同义词很多，比如：努力，注意力，专心，自觉动力，勤勉，一心一意，等等不一而足。
He was obviously walking with great effort, trying to be as still as possible.
很显然，他走得很吃力，尽可能保持平稳。
But put in a bit of effort and you'll find a Keyholder with a bunch of keys to unlock the gates to the unknown.
但是只要更努力一点，就会发现一个有一串钥匙的钥匙扣，可以打开通往未知的大门。
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