| 词汇 | attempting |
| 释义 | attempting present participle ofattempt attempt verb[ T ] uk /əˈtempt/ us /əˈtempt/ B1 to try to do something, especially something difficult: （尤指为完成难事而进行）努力，尝试 [ + to infinitive ]He attempted to escape through a window.他企图跳窗逃跑。 He attempted a joke, but no one laughed.他开了个玩笑，试图调节气氛，但没有一个人笑。 There's no point in even attempting an explanation - he'll never listen.试图去解释是毫无意义的——他根本不会听。 to try to do something tryI'll try to call her again. attemptI have never attempted to run a marathon. endeavourUKEngineers are endeavouring to locate the source of the problem. seekThey sought to reassure the public. battleHe was battling to fix the roof in the rain. striveWith limited resources, they are striving to make the school a better one. Study the examples first of all, then attempt the exercises on the next page.首先仔细研究一下例题，然后试着做下一页的习题。 "It would be stupid to attempt the journey in the dark." "Precisely, " he answered.“想在黑暗中走这段路很傻。”“的确如此，”他答道。 The pilot attempted a crash-landing on the beach. The two explorers attempted an unaided walk across the South Pole.两位探险者试图独自徒步穿越南极点。 Make sure the rope is firmly attached before attempting to climb down it. Trying and making an effort A game all out assault attempt attempted commitment crack go after someone go all outidiom go down swinging/fightingidiom go for itidiom go for someone nose seek shoot the worksidiom smarten (someone/something) up smarten up your actidiom spare square the circleidiom step on the gasidiom Examples of attemptingattempting In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Having random police patrols apprehend only some "unsuccessful" attempting criminals is not unfair even when such patrols miss other attempting criminals. This may imply that the cost of attempting to remain in office outweighs the benefit. A much simpler and more reliable solution than the unfortunate 'bleating lamb' effect that comes from attempting single-note trills on the vowels! In doing so, we are not attempting to bind others to our definitions. We ultimately decided to treat each setting as a separate work, rather than attempting a composite or conflated version. Popular culture is extensive, attempting to touch upon an audience as large as possible. Viewing seed postharvest physiology in terms of a continuum of behaviour is considered to be more realistic than attempting precise categorization. Rather than attempting uniform area-wide, inundative releases of sterile males, it may be more cost-effective to preferentially target aggregated populations associated with livestock. What emerges from all these studies is apt to be broad agreement on what eighteenth-century historians were attempting. However, the children were given verbal encouragement for attempting a target sentence. The two maps of the monarchy included in the first pages are of little assistance to the reader attempting to digest this mass of material. Rather than attempting to disentangle ideology from interests, the strategy adopted here is to examine the overlap between these two causal agents. Although there are practical and ethical challenges to consider before attempting such protocols with children and adolescents with bipolar disorder, the potential yield is great. Before even attempting to answer this question it has to be clarified that explanatory success is always limited and provisional. And he was not alone in recognizing the perils of attempting it. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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