attempt to

基本解釋

His attempt to deceive us was foiled.
他企圖欺騙我們，但最終失敗了。
The police balked the attempt to kidnap the child.
警方挫敗了誘拐小孩的企圖。
They forestalled any attempt to steal the jewels by having them moved to a safer place.
他們把珠寶轉(zhuǎn)移到了一個較為安全的地方，阻止了任何偷竊珠寶的企圖。

As a congressman and a senator, he had voted against every attempt to give more power to the federal government.
The most outrageous action in Laud's crackdown was his move to ban -his attempt to ban preaching in churches.
他所做過的最駭人聽聞的暴行,是企圖在教堂里禁止布道訓誡行為。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選
Similarly, divination. Divination is an attempt to discern the future that, once again, heads right to the source of power.
類似的還有占卜術，占卜是一種試圖看清未來的法術,它的終極目標，也是神力的源頭。
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導論課程節(jié)選

It could be an attempt to play to the country's powerful military, to win its support.
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