Tra từ strive - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

strive/straɪv/ verb (past tense strove /strəʊv $ stroʊv/, past participle striven /ˈstrɪvən/) [INTRANSITIVE] formal
[date : 1100-1200; Language : Old French; Origin : estriver]
to make a great effort to achieve something
strive to do something
　 ▪ I was still striving to be successful.
strive for/after
　 ▪ We must continue to strive for greater efficiency.

—striving noun [UNCOUNTABLE AND COUNTABLE]
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THESAURUS
▪try to take action in order to do something that you may not be able to do :
　 ▪ I tried to explain what was wrong.
　 ▪ He tries hard in class, but he’s finding the work difficult.
▪attempt to try to do something, especially something difficult. Attempt is more formal than try and is used especially in written English :
　 ▪ Any prisoner who attempts to escape will be shot.
　 ▪ He was attempting to climb one of the world’s highest mountains.
▪do your best to try as hard as you can to do something :
　 ▪ We will do our best to help them.
▪make an effort to do something to try to do something, when you find this difficult :
　 ▪ It is worth making an effort to master these skills.
　 ▪ She made a big effort to be nice to him.
▪struggle to try very hard to do something that is very difficult, especially for a long time :
　 ▪ She’s still struggling to give up smoking.
　 ▪ Many of these families are struggling to survive.
▪strive formal to try very hard to achieve something :
　 ▪ The company must constantly strive for greater efficiency.
▪endeavour British English, endeavor American English /ɪnˈdevə $ -ər/ formal to try hard to do something :
　 ▪ Each employee shall endeavour to provide customers with the best service possible.
▪have a go/try informal to try to do something, especially when you are not sure that you will succeed :
　 ▪ I’m not very good at fixing taps, but I’ll have a go.
　 ▪ Do you want to have another try?
▪see if you can do something spoken to try to do something – used when offering to do something, or suggesting that someone should do something :
　 ▪ I’ll see if I can get you a ticket.
　 ▪ See if you can persuade her to come.

verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
always
▪ We always strove to get a solution that was acceptable all round.
▪ Artists in this tradition have always striven to celebrate the present by prolonging it into the future.
▪ This is the nature of sciences and pseudo-sciences, always striving for a set of rules and final solutions.
constantly
▪ Governments are constantly striving to create equality thus avoiding conflict and hardship such as this Court ruling has done.
▪ Moreover, the struggling organization should strive constantly to legitimize its policies and procedures, and the decisions and beliefs behind them.
▪ In this way the film strives constantly to dispossess the characters.
▪ Equilibrium is a necessary condition toward which the organism constantly strives.
▪ We are constantly striving to improve and to do this, we need to know what you think.
▪ Commitment to the health service means constantly striving for better ways forward.
▪ Since those early days, telecommunications Companies have been striving constantly to make the network intelligent once again.
▪ A charity such as ours must constantly strive for greater efficiency, to put every penny of your subscription to good use.
for
▪ It defines what is important, worthwhile and worth striving for.
▪ Within their own group there was little to strive for since there were no clearly identifiable roles available.
NOUN
customer
▪ Indeed the Customer Service Charter featured below sets out the level of service we strive to sustain.
▪ So while businesses strive to please customers, government agencies strive to please interest groups.
▪ He strives to please his customers.
government
▪ Here and elsewhere, the government strove to identify itself with new themes.
▪ So while businesses strive to please customers, government agencies strive to please interest groups.
man
▪ I was now just impersonally a man, striving against the elements.
▪ He said a man strives, a woman maintains.
▪ In most societies men strive to be polygamists but few succeed.
people
▪ We also see many people striving to improve these conditions.
▪ The Hebrew people did not strive to read and write in order to decipher technical instructions.
▪ There was much activity at Brooklands as people strove to get ready for their attempts.
▪ On the contrary, this book is for people who strive to do that.
▪ Here were young people striving for the noblest ideals.
▪ The province of the mind. People strove to be free of Nature, seeing it as something outside of themselves.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The company must constantly strive for greater efficiency.
▪ Toni has been striving to achieve musical recognition for the past ten years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even when the judicial structure does strive to maintain some political independence, it still might respond to political pressure.
▪ Indeed the Customer Service Charter featured below sets out the level of service we strive to sustain.
▪ It defines what is important, worthwhile and worth striving for.
▪ She strove daily to be the perfect wife.
▪ The film strives for a surface kind of cynicism, only to invoke the Love Conquers All escape clause in the end.
▪ The many affirmations are either on what the self or others should strive for-to do or to become.
▪ They commit themselves to strive for its elimination.
▪ Which - she strove to be positive - left her the whole day in which to take her ease in Mariánské Láznë.