"The sky is the limit" to the foreign-born who comes to America endowed with honest endeavor, ceaseless industry, and the ability to carry through. In any honest endeavor, the way is wide open to the will to succeed. Every path beckons, every vista invites, every talent is called forth, and every efficient effort finds its due reward. In no land is the way so clear and so free.英文原著 · 《The Americanization of Edward Bok》
As it was, he played at being an architect -- and succeeded in being a charming fellow. My sister Jessica never lost an opportunity of laughing at his endeavors as an architect.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
It is possible -- just barely possible -- that Waite, still drunk on his solitary dreams, knew what he was doing, and chose to bring his little chapter to an end while the lines were pleasant. At any rate, he rode straight forward, shouting and waving his arms in an insane endeavor to head off that frantic mob. The noise woke the children, and they peered from the window as the pawing and bellowing herd plunged by, trampling the young steers under their feet.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
Or--no --it was on that night that he began to defy it, to deny it, to endeavor to cast it out. For surely he must have known, he had known, what Vere and Gaspare innately knew. Surely his conscience had not slept while theirs had been awake. He did not know. It seemed to him as if he had not time to decide this now. Very rapidly his mind had worked, rushing surely through corridors of knowledge to gain an inner room. He had only stood at the foot of the crumbling staircase two or three minutes before he moved again decisively, called again, decisively:
"Hermione! Hermione!英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
"But I'm sure of it, my dear sir," cried my lord. "The audacity is his and his alone. I look no further than the fact of his honoring me on the one night of the year when I endeavor to entertain my brother Criminologists. That's no coincidence, sir, but a deliberate irony, which would have occurred to no other criminal mind in England."英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
Always. He needs to find at least a small win in every endeavor, every exchange.美剧 · 《Billions》
If my office undertook such a radical endeavor against a bedrock company that has been such a friend to the administration, we would only do so with the full support of the Attorney General's Office.美剧 · 《Billions》
I could use a hand--a financial hand--with my endeavor, is all.美剧 · 《Billions》
You are an integral part of this endeavor, Wendy.美剧 · 《Billions》