Engineers strive to design bridges that withstand both heavy traffic and extreme weather conditions.
工程师们努力设计能够承受重交通和极端天气条件的桥梁。
Which choice best defines “strive”?
B — Try hard. “strive” means try hard.
Which word means “try hard”?
A — strive. “strive” means try hard.
strive — try hard. In Chinese: 努力奋斗.
strive is pronounced /straɪv/.
Engineers strive to design bridges that withstand both heavy traffic and extreme weather conditions. (工程师们努力设计能够承受重交通和极端天气条件的桥梁。)
endeavor, struggle, labor — all close in meaning to strive (try hard).
neglect, yield — each the opposite of strive (try hard).
Yes. strive is on the SAT Prep Easy list — mid-frequency academic words that do get tested. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.
strive (endeavor, struggle)