EFFORT

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effort substantiv

1. efort, sforţare; trudă, caznă;

to make an effort a face un efort, a se sforţa;

he spares no effort nu cruţă nici un efort, nu-şi cruţă forţele;

he does everything as if it were an effort totul este o corvoadă pentru el.

2. (fam.) realizare; rezultat (în artă, sport);

have you seen his latest effort? ai văzut ultima lui lucrare?

that’s not a bad effort nu-i (un rezultat) prea rău.

3. (tehn.) efort (de tracţiune etc.); travaliu.

Our first effort must be to find who are the tenants of Charlington Hall.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was worth an effort to preserve it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To write such an article was the conscious effort by which he freed his mind and made it ready for fresh material and problems.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

It was worth an effort to find out, and for that object we all went up to the house.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you will not help us in our effort to choose the wisest course, how can we perform the duty which you yourself put upon us?

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

For she made no effort to proceed.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I felt quite stiff across the small of the back, so much so that I straightened up with an effort and with pain.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

His voice became fainter as he spoke, and at length, exhausted by his effort, he sank into silence.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Then with one mighty effort, he called up all his strength for a single minute.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No, no; I shall make the effort.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)