| 单词 | least effort |
| 例句 | From their own standpoint, the organelles might be viewed as having learned early how to have the best of possible worlds, with least effort and risk to themselves and their progeny. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I look like I've made the least effort for this party compared to my sisters, who are dressed like they're heading to prom. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z These days, I find myself swinging from wanting to cook beyond the boundaries of my routine and wanting to cook whatever requires the least effort. Low Effort, Big Reward 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z “She knew the body and how to carry your weight with the least effort and no strain,” her former husband, the actor Joseph Ragno, wrote to a neighbor of hers, Arthur Wolf. Maggie Black, Esteemed Ballet and Modern Dance Teacher, Dies at 85 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Museum curators agree that clothing exhibitions are increasingly likely to include a technological component, or at least efforts to create an ambience to amplify the experience of seeing the outfits. Adding Technology to Museum Costume Displays 2012-03-15T00:21:11Z Amana, a group that supports and funds unauthorized settlements, described the shepherd outposts as a way for Israelis to take over the most land with the least effort at a conference in 2021. 3 small Palestinian villages emptied out this summer. Residents blame Israeli settler attacks 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z TikTok’s recommendation algorithms are constantly creating cultural trends, sometimes fueled by accounts that know how to maximize attention with the least effort possible. The children’s show ‘Bluey’ is a balm for stressed, child-free adults 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z What scientists call the “law of least effort” seems to apply to animals as well. The brain loves a challenge. Here’s why. 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z The local garden experts interviewed all agreed that growing microgreens delivers the biggest harvest for the least effort indoors. Cold-weather crops: How to grow herbs, microgreens and sprouts indoors for garden-fresh flavor, even in winter | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z While many of his friends were interested in getting the most views with the least effort, he wanted to convey to the audience how hard he was working. The North Carolina kid who cracked YouTube’s secret code 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z Profit-maximizing capitalism is thus justified, as "efficient" society gets the most return for the least effort. COVID-19 exposes the weakness of capitalism 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z It’s important to keep the measures going that yield the biggest bang for the buck, or the most information for the least effort and lowest cost. Safely conducting essential research in the face of COVID-19 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z At least effort hasn’t been a problem, with Fedora noting: “I’ve told them I can’t ask them to work any harder.” Fedora, Tar Heels trying to reverse program’s 2-year slide 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z For doors with latches, levers require the least effort. Decorating Strategies to Live at Home—Stylishly—Into Your 80s 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Rural land is often the most desirable for solar developers, because it requires the least effort to prepare for an array of panels. Maryland opens solar-power subscriptions to all 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z But their record of collaboration — or at least efforts to avoid conflict — in the war in Syria is far more mixed. American-Russian Relations in Syria? Less Rosy Than Trump and Putin Claim 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z What could be less conservative and less moral than being afraid to make the least effort to tighten up gun laws after a gruesome string of massacres, including a literal slaughter of innocents? Opinion | The Pigs of Liberalism 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z But horse-trading, or at least efforts at it, will dominate the congressional agenda when lawmakers return to work on Tuesday. A critical month looms for the Trump administration 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Green said he was the kind of kid who saw high school as a game, where the winner got the best grades with the least effort. Meet Hank Green, one of America’s most popular science teachers 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z I’ve spent a long time looking for an app that will help guide me to the best meal possible with the least effort. Two Apps to Guide You to Good Food 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z It's ironic that Lansbury's greatest hit, "Murder, She Wrote," the work that finally brought her global recognition, in some ways, took the least effort. At 89, enigmatic Angela Lansbury is back in the 'Spirit' 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z She felt that it would take but the least effort of will to light in one swoop upon the Sierra Nevada and from those bastions storm ... what? The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z The noise of approaching footsteps was distinctly heard; but before they could make the least effort at concealment, the door opened, and Cross entered. I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success 2012-04-18T02:00:11.437Z "Just one moment!" he said, though not making the least effort to detain her otherwise. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z The man is most meritorious who is virtuous with the least effort—provided always that he has the normal passions of a man. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z How hard he had to work to earn a dollar, and here was an opportunity to get two dollars and a half every month without the least effort on his part! Heimatlos Two stories for children, and for those who love children 2012-01-22T03:00:23.673Z Neither the priests, McBean, nor the indescribably sympathizing Sir James Douglas made the least effort to bring the murderers to justice. A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information 2012-01-20T03:00:11.607Z My peppery handkerchief was freely applied to my eyes, and the tears ran down my face without the least effort on my part. Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields 2012-01-07T03:00:15.907Z In this wise, I gained some pleasant pictures of the place; and the pictures which come with least effort are those which remain freshest in memory. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z Without the least effort or wish on her part, wherever she went she was almost sure to be noticed, even when with Eileen, who, however, must always absorb the lion’s share of passing homage. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z Interest enough to do for their families what required the least effort of mind and body was all that was left. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z “Then don’t make the least effort, but tell me ... gradually.” The Later Life 2011-10-02T02:00:13.037Z But he never during the whole of his life made the least effort to increase his popularity. Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov 2011-08-21T02:00:35.470Z The latter was now of that easiest kind, requiring least effort of eye and thought—knitting. Harriet Martineau 2011-08-05T02:00:51.493Z His discourses were always simple, powerful, clear, perfectly intelligible to all, yet made so, apparently, without the least effort. Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou 2011-08-04T02:00:22.900Z Nowhere is the least effort made to decorate the volumes externally or internally. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z She felt more than usually oppressed and languid that day, though she would not own it to herself; her work wearied her, and the least effort to talk jarred the edge of her nerves. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z An hour is not too long a time to persist, and so long as there seems the least effort to breathe the movements must be persevered in. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z The Indians, when they saw our deplorable situation, instead of making the least effort to help us, sat down and gave vent to their tears. Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. II 2011-03-24T02:00:13.247Z These animals walk with an even, measured step, and without the least effort. More Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:01:05.113Z Proud and triumphant at the mission intrusted to him, with the most rigid military bearing, with head erect, he strode on, ready at the least effort at flight, to make use of his musket. A Hero of the Pen 2011-02-04T03:00:19.217Z Socialism is the only intelligent, practical system for providing humanity with the necessaries and comforts of life with the least waste, the least effort and the least injustice. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z She scarcely needed to put forth the least effort. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z In either situation, an external hard drive provides the most capacity with the least effort. New computer? First, unpack; then, uninstall. 2010-12-23T15:10:00Z We know from theory and experiment that you get the most distance with the least effort by firing a projectile at 45 degrees, exactly midway between vertical and horizontal. In basketball, shooting angle has a big effect on the chances of scoring 2010-03-16T04:00:00Z EU officials privately worry that Greece is dragging its heels, hoping to improve its public finances with the least effort necessary, in order to minimize a political backlash at home. Greek Debt Crisis Nears Showdown 2010-02-26T23:28:00Z No one could desire a more genial companion; without the least effort he gave an interesting turn to everything he said. The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History That all work is distasteful and that "every man desires to secure the largest income with the least effort" may be as axiomatic as it is assumed to be. The Acquisitive Society And without the least effort from Ruth, Aunt Ellen got her in bed, fed her some broth and told her to go to sleep and not to worry. The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge The Ranch Girls Series The whole idea is to make the tones as natural and free and pure as possible with the least effort. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists As soon as he reached the river side, he quietly set down his load, and pushed the boat into the water without the least effort. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 She sang without the least effort, and her love added a tone of deep feeling to her singing, which one would not have supposed she possessed. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine Walk, running walk, pace, jog trot—those are the road gaits, to which horses are carefully trained, giving most mileage with least effort. Stepsons of Light I regained strength very slowly; the least effort or exertion was sure to overcome me. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance The ladies met, exchanged a few words, then parted, the countess not having made the least effort to introduce her son; he spoke of it afterward. A Mad Love Yet he gets his results in the shortest time and with the least effort. Old Plymouth Trails So far from the least effort to play the lady, her dress was, in homely plainness, a perfect contrast to that of the girls who had preceded her. Household Papers and Stories But how long would you beggars live here without making the least effort to look them out, and meanwhile put up with the same old every-day bores—like me, or Polisson here? Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 Perhaps the former is the most pleasant gossiping novel that ever was written; that which gives the most pleasure with the least effort to the reader. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature She was kind and cordial, but she never made the least effort either to entertain her or to induce her to stay. A Mad Love Cap in hand, he flew after the butterfly down the lane, and a dozen times when his cap was just upon it, it sailed away sideways without the least effort and escaped him. Jimbo A Fantasy You might as well think it your duty to stay in deep water with one who would not make the least effort to swim. The Heart of the New Thought If you wanted to move the pail with the least effort, where would you put your hand? Common Science He wanted other things, however, and he proceeded to get those things with the least effort and delay. Rim o' the World So sensitive to outside impressions is this child that he quickly responds to the least suggestion and with the least effort. The Book of Khalid A group near the door where the casual caller will naturally drop into one and the hostess into another, without the least effort, will be placed in the best possible position for a little chat. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society Mrs. Holl, without the least effort, lifted the slight figure and laid it on the sofa. Captain Bayley's Heir: A Tale of the Gold Fields of California She sat now and 219 sobbed pathetically upon her pillow, without making the least effort to tidy up her belongings. The Madcap of the School Dutch conversation is not an exchange of sounds, but a commerce of facts, and nobody makes the least effort to appear learned, eloquent, or witty. Holland, v. 1 (of 2) This enormous mass is balanced in space at the will of one man, who, by means of a lever, opens and closes two valves without the least effort. Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 Which Dolly made not the least effort to do. The End of a Coil Instantly, too—and positively—and apparently without the least effort in the world. Christmas Eve at Swamp's End She felt powerless to appeal to him, and yet it was not wholly pride that tied her tongue; she was too shaken and stunned to make the least effort at remonstrance. The Talking Horse And Other Tales Such is the case of neurasthenics, who, believing themselves incapable of the least effort, often find it impossible even to walk a few steps without being exhausted. Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion In this state the individual anxiously retires from the light, and from the noise and bustle of business, seeks that position which requires the least effort to sustain it, and abandons himself to rest. Select Temperance Tracts I stay in my mother's cabin, day after day, unable to make the least effort. A Black Adonis Nobody makes the least effort to despatch the cases, though. The Big Drum A Comedy in Four Acts He could see nothing; his pace grew frightful, and he drove on, unable to make the least effort. Prescott of Saskatchewan On opening her eyes she uttered these words without the least effort. Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887 Volume 1, Number 3 They have not the same immediate fear of a man, but the least effort to approach them leads to their hasty flight. Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization You charming, tempting, delightful fellow, I could love you without the least effort in the world,—but, no! Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The New York Idea Mr. Starbird began the school with his hands in mittens; but for all that he governed the big boys without the least effort. Little Grandmother I could make any number of them with a pattern without the least effort. A Cathedral Courtship She had repeated this sentence so often to herself that it came out now without the least effort. A Pair of Clogs His financial systems lightened the burdens of taxation, distributed the load more equally everywhere, and enabled the State to get the best revenue possible at the lowest cost and with the least effort. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I Certainly Tomba's shuddering had increased, though the little brown man, no match in muscle for the white soldier, made not the least effort to wrest himself away from that dangerous grip. Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines or, Following the Flag against the Moros So it comes about that those who demand the most homage make the least effort to merit the homage they demand. The Simple Life The least effort to concentrate his thoughts for more than a few minutes seems to irritate his brain. Doctor Luttrell's First Patient It is a most remarkably vivid and varied record of the writer's experiences, set down in a very simple and direct style, without the least effort at flummery and high-falutin. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 22, 1916 Lewis Peckham did not complain of his lot in detail, and he never made the least effort to better it. Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book But every human faculty may be cultivated, and this is a field in which, with least effort, and with least expenditure of seed, you may reap the fullest crop. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile He made no single team—put forth not the least effort to make one. On the Stairs One by one the Norsemen gave up, till only Johannes made the least effort, and that only when Steve stood by. Steve Young It was impossible to fold it, as the least effort to bend the sheet broke it in two. Chatterbox, 1905. The branch of his education in which he was making least effort and most progress was in the customs and manners of polite society. Quin The farmer climbed down from his seat and stood beside the wagon looking at it but without making the least effort to get it out of the rut. The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter "Nothing can wipe out the past," and it is false; the least effort of will sends present and future travelling over the past to efface whatever we bid them efface. The Buried Temple With the least effort of imagination too she could recall the steady murmur of the unfamiliar words; hear the rustle of the silken vestment; the stirrings and breathings of the worshippers in the little room. By What Authority? “The most complex and difficult movements,” writes Mr. Darwin, “can in time be performed without the least effort or consciousness.” Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals The author defends in this the "principle of the least effort." The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. No one can afford to be careless in the least effort if he wishes to become an acceptable singer to all classes that compose an audience. Sixty Years of California Song "Are you going to sit down and fold your hands and let our air castles come tumbling about our ears, without making the least effort to prevent?" he continued gently. North of Fifty-Three A small, very dim yet new light appeared to me—reflection, silent thoughts at night, and when alone; questionings with no least effort at answers. Confessions of Boyhood At his sign she knelt, took his clammy hand, and bent close that he might flutter out his hurried words with least effort. Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi The principle of the least effort Lindner finds to be almost absolutely refuted by his observations. The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. Strangest thing of all in one who must have been conscious of His own genius, and of the value of His teachings to mankind, He made not the least effort to perpetuate these teachings. The Empire of Love To the surprize of the stranger the favor might be over-granted or the corn given without cost; or, upon the other hand, he would be bruskly dismissed without the least effort at explanation. Sergeant York And His People That which can be digested and assimilated with the least effort on the part of the digestive organs. Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes When for the third time clumsy Nick went down heavily before the attack of the aroused Hugh, he refused to make the least effort to get on his feet. The Chums of Scranton High Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight The order of succession in which the sounds of speech are produced by the infant is different with different individuals, and consequently is not determined by the principle of the least effort. The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. It's like swimming—you can't go under if you make the least effort. August First Names, like other instruments, ought to be efficient, and the efficiency of names consists in conveying the most meaning with the least effort. Logic Deductive and Inductive By virtue of the law of least effort such a one in equal weights ought to be of more service than a foreign albumin, as it requires less organic work. The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine For the expression of texture with the least effort the drawings of Vierge are incomparable. Pen Drawing An Illustrated Treatise Naturally and without the least effort the aptest words sprang to his lips in perfect order and sequence. Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland He was of the ordinary type and I could have run him through without the least effort. The Colonel of the Red Huzzars His pupils had followed the lines of least effort, just as he had followed the lines of least effort. Craftsmanship in Teaching Consequently without having made the least effort to do so, he exercised an autocratic power among them. Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick It is the most spontaneous, constructed with the least effort from fewest materials, the least restrained, and often immeasurably surpassing all works of waking genius in the same department. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 I soon found in every case that the methods proposed by the forewoman were in the end those whereby I could do the greatest amount of work with the least effort. The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls From the way he talked, I thought he preferred those subjects requiring the least effort for a casual occasion. London River He sang without the least effort, and yet there was none of that effeminate character that I have noticed in European male singers when producing high notes very softly. Mr. Isaacs Strangely enough, few commentators ever make the least effort to identify Protestantism with any of the symbols of this book. The Last Reformation The least effort of his will, or even less than that, a spontaneous injunction of his instinct, was enough to put a bullet into the enemy. The Teeth of the Tiger She made not the least reply, not the least effort to extricate herself. The Mettle of the Pasture How can you let them drag you to the altar without making the least effort in my behalf? La Tontine He whom I love, and who venerates me, made not the least effort to defend me. Barks and Purrs They marched easily, with the stride that could carry them furthest with the least effort. A Minstrel in France The knight was inside yonder, and did a very marvellous thing in raising the stone from the huge marble tomb, quite unaided and without the least effort. Four Arthurian Romances Their methods are as reasonable as to try to pour some precious stuff from the spring to the reservoir through a non-conducting pipe, which could by the least effort be opened. The Lost World He was evidently tired, for his shoulders drooped, and his shuffling, slow-swinging gait would anywhere have been recognized by children of the wilderness as that which gets the greatest result from the least effort. The Leopard Woman It claims a distinction far above all these; and shall we behold its glorious energies imprisoned in the obscene den of ignorance and want, without making the least effort to enlighten its hideous darkness? Life in the Clearings versus the Bush Christophe, on the other hand, who laughed at his ideas, could, without the least effort, meet any workman he chanced to come across in brotherhood. Jean-Christophe Journey's End The best poetry is that which forces itself upon our memories, so that it becomes part of our life without the least effort of recollection. Cambridge Sketches With that the dog sprang at the fox and caught him without the least effort, for he was loose. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils For 45 minutes, not the least effort in any lingual direction was made; no one said a word for three-quarters of an hour. Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston She sang like an artist, and apparently without the least effort, the liquid notes flowing from her red lips like the water of a mountain rill. At Love's Cost So without the least effort, perhaps because it contained no force worth mentioning, he by this means gained the country of Greece. Dio's Rome, Volume 3 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus There was in his manner, desperation approaching to bravado, but no man made the least effort to detain him. The House of the Whispering Pines Liquid or easily liquefied foods are digested with the least effort, hence the use of milk, broths, soups, and gruels in sick-room diet. School and Home Cooking The Big Four had been built for speed, and the craft was trimmed just right for getting the most with the least effort. Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island Without the least effort she found herself in the saddle. Nature's Serial Story Without making the least effort to do so, Ishmael won his entire confidence. Self-Raised Or, From the Depths “The most complex and difficult movements,” writes Mr Darwin, “can in time be performed without the least effort or consciousness.” Life and Habit Ned had dismounted without the least effort on his part, so that he was well out of the way when his mount landed. The Pony Rider Boys in Montana Or, the Mystery of the Old Custer Trail It seemed to him that he would give his life to go to her, and comfort her with love, and yet he was impotent to make the least effort to attain the end he desired. Spring Days The least effort of the mind to capture it merely plunged her into an empty gulf where she could not touch bottom. A Prisoner in Fairyland Paradise would, beyond a doubt, have adopted the same course had he not been arrested at once, and that, too, without the least effort at resistance on his part. Cashel Byron's Profession She was glad when with his usual tact, Mr. Belamour begged for the recitation he knew she could make with the least effort of memory. Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume Remember, that the least effort you make to see madam may cost you your life. The Lucky Man The soul that is misunderstood is most often the one that has made the least effort to gain some knowledge of self. Wisdom and Destiny Those of my verses which you have least criticised are exactly those which have cost me the least effort. Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends Its thickens is very slight, less than that of a sheet of paper; it crushes under the least effort of the fingers. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects How many who have learned their catechism and deplore the ignorance of others, make the least effort to place their chief end even in the direction of that of their creation? Sir Gibbie He had often wondered how she could resist; but she had resisted without the least effort. The Choir Invisible When they had come within twenty feet of him, the lazy creature, without apparently the least effort, took two or three limping bounds to one side, and remained at the same distance as before. A Waif of the Plains She sees the earth rising higher and higher around her, without upbraiding her murderers, or making the least effort to arise and make her escape. Life of William Carey I could make any number of them with a pattern, without the least effort. A Cathedral Courtship Least irritation, least effort—a compromise of Nirvana and life. The Valley of the Moon The most complex and difficult movements can in time be performed without the least effort or consciousness. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals Cash was swinging his arms in that free stride of the man who has learned how to walk with the least effort. Cabin Fever |
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