Mrs. Hurstwood was the type of woman who has ever endeavoured to shine and has been more or less chagrined at the evidences of superior capability in this direction elsewhere.

赫斯渥太太是那种爱出风头的女人,不过多多少少总有一些懊丧,因为总是发现某人在某方面比她更胜一筹。

That seeing my self nearer the main land than I expected, I got upon my feet, and endeavoured to make on towards the land as fast as I could, before another wave should return, and take me up again.

见到自己已靠近陆地,就立即爬起来拼命向陆上奔去,以免第二个浪头打来时再把我卷入大海。

The papal captain have vainly endeavoured to induce his wife to remain behind him

教廷的队长曾白费力气地试图说服妻子留下不去。

Although, by a seemingly careless arrangement of his heterogeneous garb, he had endeavoured to conceal or abate the peculiarity, it was sufficiently evident to Hester Prynne, that one of this man’s shoulders rose higher than the other.

尽管他似乎是漫不经心地随便穿了件土人的衣服,其实是要遮掩或减少身体的怪异之处,但海丝特·白兰仍一眼便看出那个人的两肩并不一般高。

The bar tender endeavoured to persuade the lad to drink some whisky, but he was as firm as a rock against the temptation

酒吧间招待员拼命劝那小伙子喝点威士忌酒,但那小伙子十分坚定,不为所动。

Shell, as a well-known multinational group, has always endeavoured to be a welcomed presence wherever it operates.

壳牌作为国际知名的跨国集团,一直努力成为其投资所在地受欢迎的公民。

Morton endeavoured to fortify the minds of the common people by pointing out the probable exaggeration of these reports.

莫顿极力设法坚定一般人民的信心,他指出这些报告很可能是虚张声势。

jude, beginning to feel lonely, endeavoured to keep up with him

裘德因为那时开始觉得孤寂,所以就拼命地跟着那个人走。

Mr. Slope had endeavoured to strengthen his cause by calling Mr. Arabin an owl.

斯洛普先生试图加强他的理由,称阿拉宾先生为一只猫头鹰。

She instantly endeavoured , by a thousand kindness, to atone for such ebullitions of spleen

随后她又千娇百爱地想弥补刚才发的脾气。

They endeavoured to make her happy but in vain.

他们尽量使她快乐,却徒劳无功.

They endeavoured to erect the territory into an amusement park

他们努力将这一地区建成了游乐场。

They have constantly endeavoured to unleash an anti-Communist civil war which, once started, would naturally make resistance to Japan impossible, leaving capitulation as the only alternative

他们时刻企图策动反共内战,只要内战一开,抗日自然就不可能,只有投降一条路走。

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions

他在我们之间煽动内乱,并竭力挑动我们的边疆居民、那些残酷无情的未开化的印第安人;而印第安人的著名的作战原则是不分男女老幼、不论何种情况,一概格杀勿论。

He endeavoured that his ordinances should be within the compass of the man and not unpalatable to the gentleman

他总尽力使他的法令让一般人都能办到,而又不让上流社会的先生感到讨厌。

Hop-Frog endeavoured , as usual, to get up a jest in reply to these advances from the king; but the effort was too much.

跳蛙照例想打个诨,报谢卸赐;无奈脑筋动过了头,反而想不出。

I have endeavoured , in the fourth book, to explain, as fully and distinctly as I can, those different theories, and the principal effects which they have produced in different ages and nations

我将尽我所能,在本书第四篇详细明确地解释这些不同学说,并说明它们在各时代和各国中所产生的重要影响。

I have endeavoured to defend it from the point of view of the existing population, and I have shown-I hope with some effect-that their prosperity also is intimately bound up with the success of Zionism

我也曾争取从巴勒斯坦现在的居民的角度来辩护,但愿我的话不无效果。我已经指出,他们的繁荣兴盛也是和犹太复国主义的成功息息相关的。

I have endeavoured to give in their briefest outline the reasons for my disaffection

我已经尽力简短地说明了我产生不满情绪的原因。

In an article I endeavoured , about a year ago, to depict some very remarkable features in the mental character of my friend

一年前光景,我在一篇文章里,尽力描写我朋友智力上一些非常惊人的特点。

It is endeavoured to obtain a certain degree of freedom when positioning the suction mufflers in the case of the compressor.

本发明试图在将吸气口消声器放置在压缩机的壳中时获得一定的自由度。

In this connection it is endeavoured to reduce the risk of an increase in voltage in a circuit with several direct voltage sources.

在这方面，试图减少在具有几个直流电压源的电路中产生电压升高的风险。