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attempt

英 [ə'tem(p)t] 美[ə'tɛmpt]

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n. 企图，试图；攻击
vt. 企图，试图；尝试

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The scientists suggest this may be an attempt to calm humans down.

A snowmobile driver had repeatedly attempted to harm her and her team, and one of Zircle’s dogs had received a non-lifethreatening injury.

You should live your life attempting to identify and control those things which you can genuinely control.

As she neared the end of her prison sentence, a well-known columnist wrote that she was paying her dues, and that there is simply no reason for anyone to attempt to deny her right to start anew.

Many of its 800 stores are likely to close following the company’s decision to call in administrators after an attempt to sell the business for a token £1 failed.

To show its early attempt to reinvent itself.

For some, the hardships of life without steady work eventually overwhelmed their attempts to keep their families together.

Facebook then attempts to make money by selling their data to advertisers that want to send targeted messages

About 9% attempted to conceal "nonessential Internet use," and nearly 4% reported feeling "preoccupied by the Internet when offline.

As she neared the end of her prison sentence, a well-known columnist wrote that she was "paying her dues," and that " there is simply no reason for anyone to attempt to deny her right to start anew."

Many of its 800 stores are likely to close following the company's decision to call in administrators after an attempt to sell the business for a token £1 failed.

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.

Every year about 40, 000 people attempt to climb kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa.

For years researchers have attempted to show that television is dangerous to children.

It is an attempt to deal with a set of weighty topics.

Silence may be viewed by some cultural groups as extremely uncomfortable; therefore attempts may be made to fill every gap 间隙 with conversation.

The proposal attempts to deal with what some call the "death valley" of autonomous vehicles: the grey area between semi-autonomous and fully driverless cars that could delay the driverless future.

These problems partly involve Brooks's attempt to translate his tale into science.

In his work, he attempted to show how all aspects of culture changed together in the evolution of societies.

Russell Gray at the University of Auckland and his colleagues consider the evolution of grammars in the light of two previous attempts to find universality in language.

In most of the homeless gardens of New York City the actual cultivation of plants is unfeasible, yet even so the compositions often seem to represent attempts to call arrangement of materials, an institution of colors, small pool of water, and a frequent presence of petals or leaves as well as of stuffed animals.

Across the Atlantic came successive groups of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Scots, Irishmen, Dutchmen, Swedes, and many others who attempted to transplant their habits and traditions to the new world.

A recent study attempts to separate them by looking at bribery prosecutions under America’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act( ' , FCPA).

This is why repeated attempts at reform legislation have failed in recent years, leaving the Postal Service unable to pay its bills except by deferring vital modernization.

It is an ambitious attempt to blunt the sharpest edges of globalization, and make capitalism benign.