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striving for sth
striving 作名词时通常不可数；表示具体某方面的努力时后接 for。
Their striving for peace continued for decades.
他们为和平而奋斗持续了几十年。
努力；奋斗
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努力；奋斗
Effort; the act of one who strives.
Their striving for peace continued for decades.
他们为和平而奋斗持续了几十年。
努力；奋斗的行为
Effort; the act of one who strives.
Her constant striving for excellence made her a role model for the team.
她不断追求卓越的努力使她成为团队的榜样。
After years of striving, he finally achieved his dream of becoming a pilot.
经过多年的奋斗，他终于实现了成为飞行员的梦想。
The charity's success was the result of the collective striving of many volunteers.
该慈善机构的成功是许多志愿者集体努力的结果。
striving 作名词时通常不可数；表示具体某方面的努力时后接 for。
Their striving for peace continued for decades.
他们为和平而奋斗持续了几十年。
后接不定式说明努力的目标，比 for 更侧重动作本身。
Her striving to learn Chinese inspired her classmates.
她努力学习汉语的行动激励了同学。
复数形式 strivings 常见于文学或正式文体，指多次或多人各自的努力。
The strivings for justice are recorded in history.
历史上记载着为正义所做的种种努力。
Not this
Her strive for perfection never stops.
Use this
Her striving for perfection never stops.
strive 是动词，不可直接充当名词；此处需要名词形式 striving，表示‘努力、奋斗’。
Not this
I admire his striving to success.
Use this
I admire his striving for success.
名词 striving 表‘为…努力’时，后接 for 引出目标，不用 to；若用 to，则后面应接动词原形，如 striving to succeed。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
不断的努力
Her constant striving for better results earned her the team's respect.
她为取得更好成绩而不断努力，赢得了团队的尊重。
人类的奋斗
The novel reflects on human striving and the search for meaning.
这部小说反思了人类的奋斗与对意义的追寻。
追求卓越
Their striving for excellence is evident in every project they deliver.
他们对卓越的追求体现在所交付的每一个项目中。
为成功而奋斗
Continuous striving for success can sometimes lead to burnout.
不断为成功而奋斗有时会导致倦怠。
集体的奋斗
The community's collective striving brought about meaningful change.
社区的集体奋斗带来了有意义的改变。
寻找人生意义的奋斗是人的首要动力。
In his book Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl describes the striving to find meaning as the primary motivation in human life.
维克多·弗兰克尔在《活出意义来》一书中将寻找意义的奋斗描述为人类生活中的主要动力。
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记忆联想：striving 由 strive 加 -ing 构成，想象逆水行舟拼命划桨，就是努力奋斗。
语域：formal 常见场景：学术写作、评论或哲理性文章、正式演讲 作名词时通常用于书面或较正式的语境，多出现在哲理性、评论性或学术性表述中；日常口语较少直接说 striving。
These words all rhyme with striving: the stressed vowel /aɪ/ is followed by /vɪŋ/. Beware lookalikes: giving /ˈɡɪvɪŋ/ and living /ˈlɪvɪŋ/ share the spelling -iving but have a short /ɪ/, and starving /ˈstɑːrvɪŋ/ differs in its vowel; none of them rhymes with striving. Also, do not confuse striving with striven /ˈstrɪvən/.
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