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词汇 example_english_feeble-attempt
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feeble attempt

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meanings of feebleand attempt


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feeble
adjective
uk /ˈfiː.bəl/ us /ˈfiː.bəl/
weak and without energy, strength, ...
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attempt
noun[C]
uk /əˈtempt/ us /əˈtempt/
the act of trying to do something, especially ...
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Examples of feeble attempt


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Annual allowances, as at present, represent a feebleattempt at categorisation of investments.
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The clause makes a rather feebleattempt to remedy that situation.
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It took this war to put an end to the feebleattempt which had been made to raise the school age partially to 15.
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This is a thin smokescreen to cover a feebleattempt at legislation against strikes.
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It is a feebleattempt on his part to indulge in this manoeuvre, and it deceives nobody at all.
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I hope he will accept it as my feebleattempt at an answer to him.
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That has been a deliberate ploy, instigated by that lot over there in a feebleattempt to obscure what most people see as a clear-cut issue.
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Some pilot councils had done nothing, and some had made only a feebleattempt, even though they had volunteered for the scheme and had signed up to public service agreements.
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He makes a feebleattempt to stop her then relents.
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She then made a feebleattempt to defend it.
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I suggest that we cannot keep peace by feeble attempts—which are almost certain to be unsuccessful—to redress the military balance.
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We have had to-night a few feeble attempts to bolster up the capitalist system.
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There were some rather feeble attempts which led us nowhere in the inter-war period.
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The show's premise is about a group of friends purchasing/renting a home and the feeble attempts of the resident ghosts to evict them.
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