Effort

Definition

effort /'efǝt/ n ၁။ [U] ကိုယ္စြမ္းဉာဏ္စြမ္းထုတ္ျခင္း။ လံု႔လ။ a waste of time and effort ❍ A lot of effort has gone into/has been put into making this event a success. ❍ Their players attack with an economy of effort which few sides will be able to match. သူတို႔ရဲ႕ကစားသမားေတြဟာ တျခား ဘယ္အသင္းမွ် မမီႏိုင္ေလာက္ေအာင္ သက္သက္သာသာ မပင္မပန္း တိုက္စစ္ဆင္ ကစားၾကတယ္။ ၂။ [C] (က) ~ (to do sth) အားထုတ္ႀကိဳးပမ္းမႈ။ လံု႔လစိုက္မႈ။ make a special/determined/real effort to finish on time ❍ It was a group effort. ❍ Don't bother trying to persuade her; it's not worth the effort. ❍ The local clubs are making every effort/making a concerted effort to interest more young people. ❍ Union leaders have been invited to a meeting in an effort to head off any furtherdisputes. (ခ) ဦးတည္ႀကိဳးပမ္းေဆာင္ရြက္ခ်က္။ the Russian space effort ❍ the success of the government's publicity effort. ၃။ [C] ႀကိဳးစားမႈ၏ ရလဒ္။ I was quite pleased with my efforts. ❍ That's a good effort (ie That has been well done). ❏ effortless adj အားထုတ္မႈမပါသေယာင္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ မပင္မပန္း။ သက္ေသာင့္သက္သာ။ She plays with seemingly effortless skill. effortlessly adv : He talked on smoothly and effortlessly.

Examples

1. [an effort to do something] : The restructuring was part of an effort to boost company profits.
2. [in an effort to do something] : Detectives are talking to other witnesses in an effort to corroborate her confession.
3. [make an effort to do something] : I’ve made an effort to drink less tea and coffee.
4. [make little/no effort] : The drivers made no efforts to check their vehicles.
5. [an effort of will/imagination/memory] : She was trembling violently
6. but with a determined effort of will she stopped.
7. [despite someone’s efforts] : The man died despite the doctors’ efforts to revive him.
8. [a concerted/joint effort] : A concerted effort by the nations of the world to protect our environment
9. The aim is to obtain maximum reward for minimum effort.
10. [physical/mental effort] : The sheer physical effort of shopping is a burden to most of us.
11. [take/require effort] : Writing a book requires a lot of time and effort.
12. [put effort into something] : Mary put a lot of effort into this project.
13. [with an effort] : Nathan controlled his temper with an effort.
14. International relief efforts
15. His first effort in 1991 was a collection of short stories.
16. As smiles went it was a poor effort.