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attempt

英[əˈtempt]
美[əˈtempt]

基本释义

  • v.努力,尝试,企图
  • n.努力,尝试,(杀人)企图

词性变化

实用例句

Do not attempt to repair this yourself.

不要试图自己修理这个东西。

牛津词典

The prisoners attempted an escape, but failed.

囚犯企图逃跑,但失败了。

牛津词典

I will attempt to answer all your questions.

我将努力回答你的全部问题。

牛津词典

Two factories were closed in an attempt to cut costs.

为削减费用,关闭了两家工厂。

牛津词典

They made no attempt to escape.

他们没有企图逃跑。

牛津词典

I passed my driving test at the first attempt .

我考汽车驾驶执照一次就通过了。

牛津词典

The couple made an unsuccessful attempt at a compromise.

这对夫妇试图和解但未成功。

牛津词典

Someone has made an attempt on the President's life .

有人企图刺杀总统。

牛津词典

his attempt on the world land speed record

他为创造陆上速度世界纪录所作的尝试

牛津词典

Everything is almost ready for me to make another attempt on the record.

一切几乎都已准备就绪,就等我向纪录发起再一次冲击了。

The only time that we attempted to do something like that was in the city of Philadelphia...

只有在费城那次我们曾试着做那样的事。

Before I could attempt a reply he added over his shoulder: 'Wait there.'

还没等我回答他就回头又说了一句:“在那儿等着。”

...a deliberate attempt to destabilise the defence...

经过深思熟虑的破坏该防御的尝试

It was one of his rare attempts at humour.

那是他极不常见的想要表现幽默的一次。

...an attempt on the life of the former Iranian Prime Minister.

试图杀害伊朗前总理

The enemy troops were put to rout all along the line.

敌军已全线崩溃.

辞典例句

Hitherto he had experienced no great success in his attempt.

到目前为止,他的尝试还没获得成功.

《简明英汉词典》

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.

《简明英汉词典》

They were foiled in their attempt.

他们的企图成了泡影.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The guards thwarted his attempt to escape from prison.

警卫阻扰了他越狱的企图.

《简明英汉词典》

Over a year passed before the first attempt was made.

一年多的时间过去之后,才作了首次尝试.

《用法词典》

Writers of history books often attempt to integrate the past with the present.

写历史书的人总是力图把过去与现在联系起来.

《简明英汉词典》

We retraced our route in an attempt to get back on the right path.

我们折返,想回到正确的路上.

《简明英汉词典》

They made an attempt on a fortress.

他们试图夺取这一要塞.

《简明英汉词典》

He made an unsuccessful attempt to stop the thief.

他试图捉住小偷,但未能成功.

《简明英汉词典》

That was an abortive attempt.

这是一种失败的尝试.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

Scientists think they have broken through in their attempt to find the causes of many major diseases.

科学家们认为,他们在探索主要病症的病因方面有了新的进展.

《简明英汉词典》

真题例句

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

出自-2017年6月听力原文

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

出自-2017年6月听力原文

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

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

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.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

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.

出自-2015年12月听力原文

To show its early attempt to reinvent itself.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

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."

2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

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.

2015年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

Very Serious People's attempt to cripple the economy.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

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.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2015年12月听力原文

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.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2014年6月听力原文

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.

出自-2012年12月听力原文

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

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

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

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

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.

2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

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

2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

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

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

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

2019年高考英语全国卷I 完形填空 原文

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

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

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

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

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

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

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.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

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

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

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

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

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.

出自-2012年考研翻译原文

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.

出自-2013年考研翻译原文

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.

出自-2015年考研翻译原文

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

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

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.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

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

2011年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

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

    "made an effort to cover all the reading material"

    "wished him luck in his endeavor"

    "she gave it a good try"

  • 2. the act of attacking;

    "attacks on women increased last year"

    "they made an attempt on his life"

Verb
  • 1. make an effort or attempt;

    "He tried to shake off his fears"

    "The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps"

    "The police attempted to stop the thief"

    "He sought to improve himself"

    "She always seeks to do good in the world"

  • 2. enter upon an activity or enterprise

同义词辨析

attempt, try, endeavour, strive

这些动词均含有"试图,努力,力图"之意。

  • attempt:较正式用词,侧重已经开始,且希望完成,但常隐含着不一定有预期的结果。
  • try:普通用词,可与attempt换用,但强调努力或尝试,后跟不定式表示努力或争取;后跟动名词表示尝试。
  • endeavour:正式用词,指尽最大努力、认真地克服困难去做某事。
  • strive和endeavour一样,表示付出巨大努力,但strive侧重劳累与紧张,而不强调努力的结果。

反义词

vt. & vi.尝试;努力

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