attempt

英[əˈtempt]美[əˈtempt]

v.努力，尝试，企图；

n.努力，尝试，（杀人）企图；

复数：attempts;

第三人称单数：attempts;

过去式：attempted;

过去分词：attempted;

现在分词：attempting;

例句

The old couple will attempt to leave the town as soon as possible.这对老夫妇想尽快离开这个小城。

He dived his hand into his pocket in an attempt to find the key.他把手伸到口袋里摸, 试图找到那把钥匙。

He made an unsuccessful attempt to stop the thief.他试图捉住小偷, 但未能成功。

Many of the ranchers themselves see all this tourism as a cheeky attempt to commercialise a real and vanishing culture.在很多农场主看来，这种旅游完全是一种厚颜无耻的行径，它试图让一个行将消失的、真正意义上的文化成为商品。

The attempt is morally bound to fail.这一企图肯定会失败。

That was not bad for a first attempt.按初次尝试来说, 那就算不错了。

It was a daring attempt but he carried it off.那是个大胆的尝试, 而他成功了。

The guards thwarted his attempt to escape from prison.警卫阻扰了他越狱的企图。

He made no attempt to conceal his smirk.他毫不掩饰自鸣得意的笑容。

a pitiful attempt to stop the ball卑劣的截球方式

英语六级真题

Very Serious People's attempt to cripple the economy.

One recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this ecological overshoot of the human economy, and found that we are using 1.2 Earth's-worth of environmental goods and services—the implication being that at some point the debt will be called in, and all those services—the things which the planet does for us for free—will grind to a halt.

Missing from these bills is any serious attempt to rein in malpractice costs.

Brown and the Stockholm declaration were both attempting to point out.

Advertising informs consumers about the existence and benefits ofproducts and services and attempts to persuade them to buy them.

As the brain attempts to force the unsteady hand to do its bidding, the tension between the two results in a more compressed, psychologically denser expression.

By recapturing the attempt of the monarch and noting where they came from, the next scientist can figure out things like butterfly's age and its routing

Well, as your union representative, I have to warn you that it would take quite a while to force management to replace the old machines and attempt to get you transferred may or may not be successful.

Hawking was speaking at the opening of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCF) at Cambridge University, a multi-disciplinary institute that will attempt to tackle some of the open-ended questions raised by the rapid pace of development

I was lucky that my last desperate attempt led to a job.

It is the season for some frantic last-minute math一across the country, employees of all stripes are counting backward in an attempt to figure out just how much paid time-off they have left in their reserves.

missing from these bills is any serious attempt to rein in malpractice costs.

These improvements don't mean we shouldn't attempt to control our use of technology.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

VERB

尝试，试图（尤指做困难的事）

If you attempt to do something, especially something difficult, you try to do it.

例句

N-COUNT

（通常指不成功的）尝试，企图，试图

If you make an attempt to do something, you try to do it, often without success.

例句

N-COUNT

杀人企图

An attempt on some-one's life is an attempt to kill them.

例句

N-COUNT

（运动员创造纪录的）尝试，冲击

In British English, if a sportsman or sportswoman makes an attempt on a sporting record, they try to beat it. In American English you say that they make an attempt to break it.

例句

英汉词典释义

vt.

试图; 尝试

试图夺取或攻克(堡垒、要塞等)；试图征服(高山)；竭力反对；袭击，攻击；夺取；破坏；

n.

尝试, 试图, 企图

试图夺取；进攻，袭击，攻击；(尤指)企图杀害，行刺，谋杀

(尤指不理想的)尝试结果

英英词典释义

Noun

1. earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something;

2. the act of attacking;

Verb

1. make an effort or attempt;

2. enter upon an activity or enterprise

行业词典

体育： 试跳；试做；试射；试登；试举；预赛；

法律： 未遂犯；