| 词组 | strive |
| 释义 | strive Strive is most often followed by to and the infinitive: • ... they strove to establish the sense of their identity —Oscar Handlin, The American People in the Twentieth Century, 1954 • ... perhaps it is for them that he has so rigorously strived "to be exact" —John Irving, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 12 Aug. 1979 • ... the limitations of background that, subconsciously rather than consciously perhaps, he had striven to overcome —Norman Cousins, Saturday Rev., 6 Apr. 1974 Once in a while, to is followed by a noun object: • ... women have either borne the moral burden, or shared it, or striven, through the self-love Trilling denies them, to the autonomous condition that might redeem the earth —Carolyn Heilbrun, Saturday Rev., 29 Jan. 1972 Strive is also frequently used with for: • With all his will Venters strove for calmness —Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage, 1912 • ... each national group, striving for greater freedom, has the support of its neighbors —Henry C. Atyeo, Current History, November 1952 • We have strived for reform of the chaotic and unworkable welfare system —John Gardner, Common Cause, 9 Jan. 1973 Other prepositions used with strive include after, against, at, in, into, toward, towards, with, and within: • ... apartments that have exceeded mere functional-ism and now strive after taste —Anthony Austin, N.Y. Times Mag., 9 Mar. 1980 • "... Though we strive against butchers, let us not wet our hands in butchery " —Irwin Shaw, The Young Lions, 1948 • ... he strove at his seemingly endless task —American Guide Series: Texas, 1940 • The San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders have striven mightily in football, without success — Springfield (Mass.) Union, 23 Oct. 1972 • ... the farmers roll from their bunks, strive into their jeans, and fall out for morning roll-call —Century Mag., April 1919 • ... two sentences which state beautifully what many educators have been striving toward —Sim O. Wilde, Jr., Center Mag., May 1969 • ... some curious region where the spirit strives towards an unseen God —Virginia Woolf, The Second Common Reader, 1932 • ... a figure that had striven with the generations who found Chicago a swamp mudhole and saw it made into an audacious metropolis —Dictionary of American Biography, 1936 • He guessed at the grief and perplexity that must strive within her —Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl, 1924 |
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