The Endeavour
a ship
TRANSLATION
The Endeavour = Segelschiff des Seefahrers und Entdeckers James Cook, mit dem dieser zwischen 1768 und 1771 seine erste Entdeckungsreise unternahm —— endeavour (noun) = die Bemühung, die Anstrengung, das Bestreben —— to endeavour (verb) = sich bemühen, sich anstrengen
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
“THE ENDEAVOUR became the first European ship to reach the east coast of Australia, with Cook going ashore at what is now known as Botany Bay.”
Ruth Scurr - “The Ship That Changed The World” (Guardian Review)
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“The YSI Economic History working group will make every ENDEAVOR to convince relevant senior speakers to attend the individual sessions and to give feedback to the students.”
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Did you
know?
endeavour (US endeavor)
noun = an effort or attempt to do something
verb = to try to do something
Cambridge Advanced English Dictionary
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ORIGIN
The verb endeavour dates from around the 14th century and is derived from the phrase ‘put in dever’, where ‘dever’ represents ‘duty’. This, in turn, was taken from the Latin ‘debere’ meaning ‘to owe’.
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CAPTAIN COOK MEETS KANGAROO
The word kangaroo is an Australian Aboriginal word from the Guugu Yimidhirr people of north Queensland and was recorded by Captain James Cook in August 1770. Cook’s ship, the HMS Endeavour, had been damaged on coral on the Great Barrier Reef. It took seven weeks for the ship to be repaired on the banks of a river, now the Endeavour River, at the site of the town of Cooktown.
During this time, James Cook, Joseph Banks and other crew members had time to explore the area and the plants and animals. The skin and skull of a kangaroo was taken back to England to be put on show. In James Boswell’s book “Life of Johnson” he describes Dr. Samuel Johnson in 1793 hopping around the room to explain to people how a kangaroo moved.
Source: Australian National Dictionary Centre (ANDC)
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SYNONYMS for best endeavour
bend over backwards, burn the candle at both ends, do one’s very best, do one’s damnedest, do one’s level best, do one’s utmost, give it one’s all, give it all one’s got, blood-sweat-and-tears, give it one’s best shot, give something a whirl, go all out for, go for broke, go hammer and tongs, go the limit, leave no stone unturned, make an all-out effort, make one’s BEST ENDEAVOR, move heaven and earth, move mountains, spare no effort, pull out all the stops, take special pains
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PRACTICE OWAD in an English conversation, share something like:
“The NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour was named after Captain Cook’s ship, as was the command module of Apollo 15, which took a small piece of wood from Cook’s ship into space.”
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