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ENDEAVOUR

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Traducere în limba română

endeavour I. verb tranzitiv

a se strădui, a se sforţa, a se căzni, a se sili; a încerca, a căuta.

endeavour II. substantiv

sforţare, efort, silinţă, străduinţă, încercare;

I made it my endeavour to please m-am străduit să le intru în voie.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I retired to a window-seat, and taking a book from a table near, endeavoured to read.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

We must endeavour to change it for you.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

She endeavoured to be composed, and to be just.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

At last it was agreed that they should endeavour to determine the dimensions of the wood by walking a little more about it.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

“Government,” said Henry, endeavouring not to smile, “neither desires nor dares to interfere in such matters. There must be murder; and government cares not how much.”

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Now I could only answer my father with a look of despair and endeavour to hide myself from his view.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She asks for a hundred pounds, and endeavours to buy them off.

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

Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the shutter open, but without success.

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

I will endeavour to do so.

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

Command yourself enough to say no more, and I will endeavour to forget it.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

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