earnest
美 [ˈɜrnɪst] 
英 [ˈɜː(r)nɪst]
- n.认真；热心；保证金；预兆
- adj.非常认真的；诚实的；真诚的
- 网络诚恳的；热心的；诚挚的
词形变化
复数：earnests 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
1. | 非常认真的；诚实的；真诚的very serious and sincere |
| an earnest young man 非常认真的年轻人 |
| Despite her earnest efforts, she could not find a job. 尽管她已尽心竭力，但是仍然找不到工作。 |
习惯用语
in earnest
（更加）严肃地，认真地，坚定地more seriously and with more force or effort than before
| The work on the house will begin in earnest on Monday. 这栋房子的修建工作将在星期一正式开始。 |
郑重其事；当真very serious and sincere about what you are saying and about your intentions; in a way that shows that you are serious
| You may laugh but I'm in deadly earnest . 你可以笑，不过我可是正经八百的。 |
| I could tell she spoke in earnest. 我看得出她是郑重其事地说的。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
On this, there arose an earnest contention between the two young princes, each of them affirming himself to be the elder.
负责行刑者来到囚室，问谁是长子。两位年轻王子马上激烈争辩起来，都说自己是兄长。
I'm sure he was in earnest when he said that you could use this money to continue your study of music.
我肯定，你说你可以用这笔钱继续学习音乐是认真的。
one questioner, a young man with an earnest manner, seemed poised to spring as he took the mike.
其中一位提问者态度非常认真，在接过麦克的时候已经准备好了发问。
If all this sounds a bit earnest, don't worry: there will be plenty of fun in 2009 as well.
如果上述话题过于沉重，不要担心，2009年并不缺乏开心事。
Earnest Hemingway once said : the world is a fine place, and worth fighting for. I agree with the second part.
海明威说过这样的话：这个世界很美好，值得我们为之奋斗。我同意后半句话。
For almost a year they had waged a war of nerves on their neighbours; now it was to be war in earnest.
他们同邻居进行精神战已将近一年；现在要郑重开战了。
Once he reaches his hometown, Tandil, where del Potro has about 150 relatives, he said the party could begin in earnest.
届时，家乡将为他而沸腾，家族的150多个成员会举行超级派对。
I began to see we should have a brush for it in earnest, and looked to my priming .
我开始意识到一场真正的恶战在所难免，便看了看我那支枪里的火药。
Iago, as if in earnest CARE for Othello's peace of mind, besought him to beware of jealousy.
伊阿古做出假装诚心诚意地关心奥瑟罗精神上的安宁，劝他当心不要吃醋。
The beginnings of a strong movement toward Tradition 2 did not begin in earnest until the twelfth century.
十二世纪，一个朝向传统2的强而有力的运动才郑重地展开。
He's earnest and dumb enough to wade into District 9, trying to get a "signature" from each of the 1. 8 million prawns MNU is moving.
威库斯傻头傻脑、一本正经地深入第九区腹地，想要让总数达180万的“大虾”一个个在MNU订立的迁徙协议上“签字”确认。
He is an earnest, intelligent person trying to rescue a country in crisis and that's not all that hilarious.
他是一位严肃、睿智的人物，正试图挽救国家于危难之中，这并不那麽好笑。
Well, one thing was dead sure, and that was that Tom Sawyer was in earnest, and was actually going to help steal that nigger out of slavery.
不过有一点是毫无疑问的，那就是汤姆.索亚的确是诚心诚意地打算帮助那个黑人摆脱奴隶生活。
Mr. Morris said, "I wish to have an earnest talk with you, Mr. Jefferson, on the alarming situation of things. "
莫里斯先生说：“杰斐逊先生，我想就这一令人担忧的形势和你进行一次诚恳的交谈。”
I must tell you how pleased I was to hear of your engagement, and hasten you my earnest congratulations.
非常高兴听到你订婚的消息，谨致上我虔诚的祝福。
Your income is from your performance and productivity, not how much time you spend earnest.
你的收入来自于你的绩效和生产力，而不是你有多认真、花了多少时间。
I had, beside all this, an earnest desire to see the great men of the earth.
我旁边这一切，真诚希望看到伟人地球。
Was Mr Saleh riding in to rally his troops or to hold them back and pursue, this time in earnest, a compromise to save his country?
萨利赫这次回来是要重整旗鼓呢，还是要撤回其部队并真诚地达成妥协来挽救他的国家呢？
When Hector recovered he led such a charge, with Paris on one side of him, Aeneas on the other, that the Greeks fled in good earnest.
待赫克托伤愈后，他带头出击，身旁有帕里斯与埃涅阿斯左右相辅，来势之猛，使希腊人望风披靡。
As I think you will realize, sir, I am really in earnest, and for me it has become an urgent necessity to understand and to be of that void.
我想你会认识到，先生，我真的是非常认真地，对我来说了解并成为那个空已经变成迫切的需要。
All this-so easy now to see-was then the subject of prolonged and earnest argument, extending over days and weeks.
所有这些现已显而易见，但是当时却是曾经过长时间激烈辩论的题目。
She took the opportunity of his being earnest in talking with me, and got out of the room, and I never saw her more.
她乘他专心同我谈话的机会，溜出房子，我以后再也看不见她了。
Tom seemed to think there was decidedly room for improvement in me, and seemed very earnest that I should be converted.
汤姆似乎觉得我身上肯定是有缺点的，所以迫切希望我能皈依上帝。
Sam knew exactly what he meant, but he kept on a look of earnest and desperate simplicity.
他说的是什么，山姆心里清清楚楚，可是他依然装出一副笨得简直不可救药的样子。
Harriet had no scruples which could stand many minutes against the earnest pressing of both the others.
哈里特即使不愿意，也难却两人的盛意。
The old man still held the collar of the boy's jacket: he was trembling and his face was earnest and bright and wild.
老头仍然抓着孩子的衣领；他全身颤抖着，满脸发着光，神情急切而粗野。
The boat had "smelt" the bar in good earnest.
这只船已经的的确确地“觉出”那个沙滩了。
He looked very earnest and strenuous.
他那种神气非常认真，而且卖气。
Up rose Snodgrass, very much in earnest, "Sir, I give you my word as a gentleman, Laurie wouldn't do anything of the sort. "
斯诺德格拉司气急败坏地跳起来——“先生，我以人格担保，劳笠不会干这种事的。”
After falling three feet on a level it went to work in earnest; and we knew we were snowed in.
雪下了三英尺深还不见有停的迹象，我们才知道要被雪困住了。
The boy, in earnest, squatted in front of a blade of grass, on which a round dew in the sun gave a colorful light, exceedingly beautiful.
只见男孩非常认真地蹲在一茎草叶面前。草叶上，一颗圆圆的露珠，在太阳的照射下，正幻出七彩的光芒，格外美丽。
But Woodstock was no earnest rally; it had love songs, blues and extended guitar jams.
但是伍德斯托克不是表忠大会，她有爱情歌曲，布鲁斯，还有大段的吉他即兴对奏。
All this-so easy now to see-was then the subject of prolonged and earnest argument, extending over days and weeks.
所有这些现已显而易见，但是当时却是曾经过长时间激烈辩论的题目。
He seemed scarcely to hear her, and was walking up and down the room in earnest meditation; his brow contracted, his air gloomy.
他好象完全没有听到她的话，只是在房间里踱来踱去，煞费苦心地在深思默想。他双眉紧蹙，满脸忧愁。
He was a man of a good and kindly nature, a little vain and self-important, but earnest and upright, and possessed of very fair abilities.
柯林斯为人善良仁慈，虽然有点虚荣心和自大，但办事认真直率，能力很强。
Does not the age of Balzac, Dickens, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy dwarf its earnest, fitfully brilliant but ultimately punier successor?
如果不是Balzac，Dickens，Dostoyevsky和Tolstoy的时代的低调认真的创作，断断续续的杰出创作但是最终却弱势继承？
The autumn twilight gathered in, and from her place Isabel could see the rain, which had now begun in earnest.
秋日的暮色正逐渐笼罩下来。伊莎贝尔可以从她坐的地方，望见秋雨正愈下愈猛。
Their sincere words and earnest wishes even their perseverences are good for you to set up the right sailing of life.
他们的谆谆教导，语重心长，甚至孜孜不倦地为你树立起人生正确的航行。
Earnest Hemingway once said : "the world is a fine place, and worth fighting for" .
海明威说：‘dnf墨竹这世界是美好的，值得我们为之奋斗。’
I'm sure he was earnest when he said he would come.
我相信他说他会来是认真的。
Her parents thought the girl was joking when she said she wanted to be a scientist, but she was in earnest.
这女孩说她想当一名科学家，她父母认为她是在开玩笑，但她却是认真的。
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
重要的并不总是确实的。相反，谬误往往比真理来的更为重要。
Today we begin in earnest of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little better than the one we inhabit today.
今天，我们做出诚挚的努力，希望我们留给孩子们的世界，比我们今天继承下来的再好一点点。
How much will the earnest money deposit be?
订金要多少钱？
Like an earnest teacher who'd been outsmarted by a clique of relentlessly cheating students, it had lost credibility.
就像一位认真的老师惨遭一群作弊学生无情戏弄那样，它（Google）已经丧失了公信力。
She took the opportunity of his being earnest in talking with me, and got out of the room, and I never saw her more.
她乘他专心同我谈话的机会，溜出房子，我以后再也看不见她了。
Humour, rather than earnest diatribes on the peaceful nature of Islam, is the best way of defusing suspicion, he says.
他说幽默而非对伊斯兰和平本性的一本正经的批评是缓减猜疑的最好方式。
Little previous ceremony is required to bring the matter to an issue when both parties are really in earnest.
只要双方确有诚意，事先不需要什么繁文缛节就可能圆满解决。
After you complete this final tutorial, you're ready to begin your certification preparation in earnest.
完成最后这篇教程后，您就可以认真地准备认证考试了。
It might be the exhilaration of that potent cordial, which is distilled only in the furnace-glow of earnest and long-continued thought.
那力量可能是潜在热情的兴奋表现，是从长期不断的诚挚思想的熔炉中蒸馏出来的。
