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单词 attempt
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attempt
(ətempt )
Word forms: attempts , attempting , attempted
1. verb B1+
If you attempt to do something, especially something difficult, you try to do it.
The only time that we attempted to do something like that was in the city of Philadelphia. [VERB to-infinitive]
Before I could attempt a reply he added over his shoulder: 'Wait there.' [VERB noun]
Synonyms: try, seek, aim, struggle  
2. countable noun [oft NOUN to-infinitive] B2
If you make an attempt to do something, you try to do it, often without success.
...a deliberate attempt to destabilise the defence.
It was one of his rare attempts at humour. [+ at]
...their involvement in a coup attempt in September.
Synonyms: try, go [informal], shot [informal], effort  
3. countable noun
An attempt on someone's life is an attempt to kill them.
...an attempt on the life of the former Iranian Prime Minister. [+ on]
Synonyms: attack, assault, strike, offensive  
4. countable noun
In British English, if a sportsman or sportswoman makes an attempt on a sporting record, they try to beat it. In American English you say that they make an attempt to break it.
Everything is almost ready for me to make another attempt on the record.
Idioms:
a last ditch attempt
an action performed when everything else has failed, as a final attempt to avoid disaster, although it too seems likely to fail
The President has been making a last ditch attempt to prevent the rebels taking over the city.
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Collocations:
attempt a comeback
However, in the 1998 close season he felt he had recovered enough to attempt a comeback.
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There was no talk of money and contracts, nor of fears and anxieties about whether he should be attempting a comeback.
Times, Sunday Times
We made a whimper and attempted a comeback but deep down the 3,000 travelling fans knew that it wasn't going to happen.
The Sun
He attempted a comeback after having 12 inches of his colon removed.
The Sun
He spent time in hospital in 1975 and attempted a comeback in 1976.
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attempt fails
The society confirmed that it would also try again to ban compulsory daily acts of worship in community schools after an earlier attempt failed.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
A temporary export ban was imposed to allow time for a British buyer to match the price, but the attempt failed.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
A second attempt failed after the gun jammed, a court heard.
The Sun (2017)
His second attempt failed because his daughter's head was a centimetre too small on the passport photo.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
attempt unsuccessfully to
The doughnut debacle has provoked fiery meetings between the opposing parties and has even drawn in the local legislature, which has attempted unsuccessfully to broker a ceasefire.
Times, Sunday Times
I attempted unsuccessfully to catch the phone.
Times, Sunday Times
He attempts unsuccessfully to explain to her the concepts of his immortality.
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That year, the two teams attempted unsuccessfully to merge with each other.
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He continued to refine new mounting techniques, prepared specimens, describing some, and attempted unsuccessfully to obtain funding for an earth sciences museum.
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block an attempt
The pair, who are also on holiday, tried to block her attempt to unveil the plans, saying she had not consulted them.
The Sun
Chants of 'revolution, revolution' grew as leaders of the historic uprising sent out an urgent call for protesters to fill the streets and block any attempt to disperse them.
Times, Sunday Times
Security checks would have blocked the attempts, officials said.
The Sun
The administration tried to end the programme last year but a judge blocked the attempt.
Times, Sunday Times
The youngster's defensive qualities swiftly rose to the fore, a fierce yet perfectly timed tackle blocking the attempted centre.
Times, Sunday Times
bold attempt
The lyrics are still brooding and downbeat but it's a bold attempt from a band who are ready for bigger things.
The Sun
An outrageously bold attempt, ending in failure.
Times, Sunday Times
However, analysts said that while it was a bold attempt to delve into the world of social networking, the search firm may never catch up with more established websites.
Times, Sunday Times
It's just a bold attempt to convince people to be nicer to each other.
Times, Sunday Times
This bold attempt simply loses by force.
Times, Sunday Times
botched attempt
Here she remained for more than a year, despite periodic agitation from her coreligionists, and a botched attempt at escape.
The Times Literary Supplement
The number went down by another dozen that year in a botched attempt to trap giraffes destined to be presidential gifts.
Times, Sunday Times
He would say that, but a botched attempt at eradication can drive your enemy underground where it can remain dormant for up to a decade.
Times, Sunday Times
Apparently, he might have been traumatised by my botched attempt at familiarity.
Times, Sunday Times
Problems included a botched attempt in 2018 to modernise the doorstep operation and a hawkish crackdown on high-cost credit generally by regulators.
Times,Sunday Times
brave attempt
Two teachers made a brave rescue attempt but also had to be helped out of the ravine.
The Sun (2008)
The issue was a brave attempt to tackle a big subject, which remains in need of definition.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
A brave attempt, but doomed to failure.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
clumsy attempt
This is either a clumsy attempt to be generous or wishful thinking of a quite deluded kind.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
His boss makes a clumsy attempt to make him feel better.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The plan is'simply a clumsy attempt to bring in a new tax on the delivery of justice.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
conscious attempt
This was a deliberate, conscious attempt to deprive the state of revenue.
Times, Sunday Times
A sport once thought of as marginal and passé has, without any conscious attempt to alter its image, undergone something of a revolution.
Times, Sunday Times
This was part of a conscious attempt to appear more like an elite coach and less like a stand-up comedian, but also because he knows that this was deceptively easy.
Times, Sunday Times
While she was aware of the films when she was growing up, she made a conscious attempt not to watch them in preparation for the role.
Times, Sunday Times
He also makes a conscious attempt at objectivity and balance.
The Times Literary Supplement
coup attempt
And until recently, the opposition has been fragmented and inept, tarred by a failed coup attempt in 2002.
Times, Sunday Times
They say that his links to a failed 1982 coup attempt, for which he was jailed for eight years, were never adequately explained.
Times, Sunday Times
They were stuck airside as the coup attempt began, and their onwards flight was grounded.
The Sun
We are approaching the fourth anniversary of the coup attempt.
Times,Sunday Times
University staff have been hit hard in the purge of the public sector since the coup attempt of 2016.
Times, Sunday Times
defeat an attempt
In the past, they have always managed to defeat attempts to control them, and their territory.
The Times Literary Supplement (2019)
His passionate contributions helped to defeat an attempt to block the bill.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The three previous attempts were all heavily defeated - the most recent one only last month.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
deliberate attempt
This may or may not be a deliberate attempt to build up a 'war chest' before the next election.
Times, Sunday Times
Without naming names, he suggested there may have been a deliberate attempt 'to cause disruption to the club by spreading so many false rumours'.
Times, Sunday Times
None of these threats to science and medicine has emerged as a result of a deliberate attempt to constrain legitimate research or clinical practice.
Times, Sunday Times
Cynics wonder whether this might be for effect, a deliberate attempt to show a calm head when all about him are losing theirs.
Times, Sunday Times
It was, as he even admitted, a deliberate attempt to change the focus of the campaign.
Times, Sunday Times
desperate attempt to
They'd met during what passed for a rest period -- a few days ' lull before this last desperate attempt to relieve Stalingrad.
Townsend, Eileen IN LOVE AND WAR
Belle seemed to be scrambling from one brief affair to another in a desperate attempt to avoid spinsterhood.
Forrest, Roberta WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
Nicole demanded, immediately going on to the offensive in a desperate attempt to mask her horror at the news of Coughlin's death.
MacNeill, Alastair THE DEVIL'S DOOR
early attempt
Apparently the dinosaurs were an early attempt by the kaiju at world domination, before they were wiped out.
Times, Sunday Times
After an early attempt failed, left, a dart was successfully fired into it.
Times, Sunday Times
Three firsthalf, first-phase tries were replaced with an early attempt at something similar from an early scrum.
Times, Sunday Times
At first glance, these ridiculous-looking pants seem more like an early attempt at a maxi pad gone horribly wrong - thick, uncomfortable and in the way.
The Sun
One early attempt at lengthening the playing time should be mentioned.
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failed attempt to
It looked like a failed attempt to fertilise a rare amphibian in vitro.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
There was a failed attempt by rebel investors to force asset sales and boardroom changes.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
He had also allegedly been involved in a failed attempt to test fire a long-range rocket.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
feeble attempt
That it was a feeble attempt at gouging hardly amounts to mitigation.
Times, Sunday Times
It was unclear if this was intended as a joke, an insult or a feeble attempt at shock-rock provocation.
Times, Sunday Times
Although she scolds him and swears and throws stuff around, he gently deflects this feeble attempt to generate drama.
Times, Sunday Times
We inched forward in a feeble attempt to get them to move.
Times, Sunday Times
And the six-pack, once evidence of having luxurious amounts of time and money to devote to self-sculpture, now looks like a feeble attempt at control in an uncertain world.
Times, Sunday Times
foil an attempt
The idea to stamp the birth certificate of everyone who dies would foil any attempt to use them to fraudently obtain a passport.
The Sun
After the four youths foil an attempt at a second heist, they join forces.
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Superman foils his attempt in stealing the device.
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It also forces the attacker to tailor the exploitation attempt to the individual system, which foils the attempts of internet worms.
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He sealed the hare inside a ceramic hare-shaped casket (both to protect the prize from the soil, and foil any attempts to locate the treasure with a metal detector).
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frustrate an attempt
He has fended off challenges and tried to frustrate attempts to reform the constitution.
Times, Sunday Times
It should come as no surprise that local councils consistently frustrate the attempts of central government to force through new housing projects.
Times, Sunday Times
Those who frustrated any attempt to deal with this should have no place in the leader's office or as party staff.
Times,Sunday Times
The network operated on a clandestine part of the internet designed to frustrate attempts by the authorities to identify website users and operators.
Times, Sunday Times
The planning battles are frustrating attempts by agents to re-let outlets that have become vacant and delaying recovery in affected parks.
Times, Sunday Times
futile attempt to
The first is to make a futile attempt to plug into the island's glamorous past.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Dom rubbed his hand across his lips in a futile attempt to clean the bad taste from his mouth.
Christina Dodd SOMEDAY MY PRINCE (1999)
I crawled out into the daylight and jogged round the cemetery in a futile attempt to warm myself up.
Adam, Paul A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH (2002)
His worst fears assuaged, Cazaril abandoned his futile attempt at invisibility, and nerved himself to ask Lady Betriz for one roundel.
Lois McMaster Bujold THE CURSE OF CHALION (2001)
half-hearted attempt
He had serious reservations as to what he regarded as the half-hearted attempt at a general anti-avoidance rule now in the process of being enacted.
Times, Sunday Times
It made a half-hearted attempt to blame currency movements, but this accounted for only 1.5 million in the expected shortfall.
Times, Sunday Times
There had been a half-hearted attempt to allow the internet in.
Times, Sunday Times
It was a half-hearted attempt at rebellion because it was behind glass and in a gold frame, bought for about 10 at a local market.
Times, Sunday Times
Next morning, we made a half-hearted attempt to catch the ferry to the city, but there was nowhere to park.
Times, Sunday Times
initial attempt
I have done two runs - including the failed initial attempt - stayed upright and mastered the art of the extremely wide and somewhat antisocial cross-piste turn.
Times, Sunday Times
Your initial attempt to resolve certain pressing issues wasn't just unrewarding, it also revealed tricky dilemmas.
Times, Sunday Times
Mime was most often used when an initial attempt to communicate had failed, as a way of reinforcing the orang-utan's meaning with gestures and actions.
Times, Sunday Times
Often, the initial attempt fails, but you need to push on.
Times,Sunday Times
Doctors decided to go ahead with a face transplant after an initial attempt to repair the damage with tissue from the patient's left forearm failed.
Times, Sunday Times
last-ditch attempt to
This is just a last-ditch attempt to stop us leaving the EU.
The Sun (2016)
The company has phoned round small shareholders over the past few weeks in a last-ditch attempt to drum up sufficient support.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Tens of thousands of motorists have also been bombarding MPs in a last-ditch attempt to scupper the increase.
The Sun (2012)
make an attempt
No attempt was made to remove mobile camera phones.
The Sun (2012)
If we can join the dots more intelligently then we should make the attempt.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Little attempt is made to depict native architecture realistically.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
No attempt was made to recoup the cash.
The Sun (2015)
The next year a successful attempt was made by airship.
Eric Newby A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES (2003)
misguided attempt
And the entire performance was swathed in a translucent stage-wide gauze at the front, thus sacrificing clarity in a misguided attempt at atmosphere.
Times, Sunday Times
Most of our difficulties over the past three years have arisen from the misguided attempt to insert a referendum into a parliamentary system.
Times, Sunday Times
The study criticises the police and schools for failing to take action in a misguided attempt to avoid offending cultural sensibilities.
Times, Sunday Times
He dismissed it as an 'exhibition' match in 2009 but admits that was a misguided attempt to ease the pressure and lower expectations.
The Sun
In an admirable but terribly misguided attempt to reach all people, we succumb to our culture's veneration of convenience.
Christianity Today
obvious attempt
The lights are only on his part of the desk — it's an obvious attempt to get one up on the other judges.
The Sun
I wonder, moreover, whether 12-year-olds are impressed by such an obvious attempt to be with it.
Times, Sunday Times
The embassy's statement was issued before — not after — the mob breached the building and was an obvious attempt by someone on the ground to calm a dangerous situation.
Times, Sunday Times
An obvious attempt to suggest he's head and shoulders above other candidates.
Times, Sunday Times
United sniped at his ankles in an obvious attempt to light up that short fuse.
Times, Sunday Times
oppose an attempt
But other senior politicians adamantly oppose any attempt to reform the act.
Times, Sunday Times
Universities signalled that they would oppose any attempt to cut tuition fees.
Times, Sunday Times
Airlines would probably oppose any attempt to add insurance to the price of tickets.
Times, Sunday Times
Opposition political parties previously have threatened to oppose any attempt to change the law and to put the issue to a national referendum.
Times, Sunday Times
I oppose any attempt to redefine it.
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pass attempt
His 9.411 yards per pass attempt and 17.5 yard per completion are rookie records that still stand.
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On his first pass attempt, he connected for a 40-yard score.
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As a quarterback, he accumulated one pass attempt, 109 rushing yards, and two rushing touchdowns.
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Tech attempted a two-point conversion, but the pass attempt fell incomplete.
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At this game he made 1 pass attempt, which was incomplete.
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reform attempt
Five previous reform attempts on the current law have failed since 1999.
canada.com
Unsuccessful market reform attempts were started in the 1990s and the economy stagnated in this time.
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Land reform attempts by past leaders and governments proved futile, as the revolution from 1910-1920 had been a battle of serfdom, capitalism, and industrial ownership.
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reject an attempt
He has said that he will reject any attempt to take over the company or split it up.
Times, Sunday Times
The court should reject this attempt to expand discovery, prosecutors wrote.
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The demonstrators have rejected any attempt by mainstream political parties to take control of the powerful grassroots movement.
Times, Sunday Times
The last concerted effort was in 2008 when a large majority rejected an attempt to reduce the time limit from 24 to 22 weeks.
Times, Sunday Times
It said that it would reject any attempts to do so.
Times,Sunday Times
repeated attempts
There have been repeated attempts at reform, none of which have succeeded.
Times, Sunday Times
Repeated attempts have been made to rationalise this and improve efficiency for patients.
Times, Sunday Times
He said the government had effectively ended repeated attempts to come up with a cross-party deal.
Times, Sunday Times
There have been repeated attempts to reform political funding to lessen the influence of big donors.
Times, Sunday Times
Despite repeated attempts to contact the club yesterday, no one was available to comment.
Times, Sunday Times
represent an attempt to
Our plans represent an attempt to address the acute shortage of space in research libraries and save the nation an estimat-ed 100m a year.
Times, Sunday Times
It has been suggested that the painted vases represent an attempt to imitate metal vessels.
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Pilots' leaders claim that the project represents an attempt to shift towards fully pilotless aircraft in the future, despite public opposition.
Times, Sunday Times
He admits that his new major label deal represents an attempt to move from the crawler lane of critical acclaim into the middle of the road.
Times, Sunday Times
My smile in this picture represents an attempt to put a brave face on another disaster in the making.
Times, Sunday Times
resist an attempt
Until ministers release the cash for care, we must resist any attempt to demonise low-paid employees.
Times, Sunday Times
Vivifying images resist the attempt to reduce a person to what can be observed and duly recorded.
The Times Literary Supplement
Resist any attempt to tone down your ideas or image, be proud of who you are, and the world will turn your way.
The Sun
With some 400 horsemen and 6,000 militia, he was prepared to resist any attempt at coercion.
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He also said he would resist any attempt to arrest even half a member of the party.
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robbery attempt
He becomes a minor celebrity after a foiling a late-night robbery attempt.
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In 2009, the shrine suffered damage during a robbery attempt of the shrine's donation box.
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The robbery attempts would be a colossal mistake.
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He was legendary for having fought off a number of robbery attempts, some against overwhelming odds.
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serious attempt to
The Chancellor has not taken the opposite political risk of a serious attempt to reduce the budget deficit by increases in taxation and reductions in expenditure.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
But on the whole the journal is a serious attempt to fulfil a frivolous purpose rather than a frivolous attempt to fulfil a serious one.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
England did not make a serious attempt to go for their stratospheric target.
The Sun (2009)
The third collapsed last year after what the judge called a'serious attempt at jury tampering '.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
successful attempt
Yesterday's leader's speech was a largely successful attempt to do three different things.
Times, Sunday Times
Yesterday he made his most successful attempt to date.
Times, Sunday Times
It returned to land and waited for the hurricane to pass before making a successful attempt at the crossing.
Times, Sunday Times
It was her attempt, a successful attempt, to tranform the material side of ministry from a drawback to a definite benefit.
Christianity Today
A successful attempt to get in touch with the afterlife.
The Sun
survive an attempt
He manages to survive an attempt on his life by someone who appears to be a cop.
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There should be help for those who have survived an attempt.
Times, Sunday Times
He survives the attempt due to the tree branch breaking and saving his life.
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In that same year, 1987, he survived an attempt on his life.
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She survives an attempt on her life, which she strongly suspects was orchestrated by members of the company she works for.
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systematic attempt
What's more, there has until now been no systematic attempt to examine a fund sector and identify which funds might be covertly tracking the index.
Times, Sunday Times
Opposition leaders were also rounded up in what appeared to be a systematic attempt to break the protest movement.
Times, Sunday Times
Notwithstanding sporadic incidents of intimidation, there was no systematic attempt to rig the vote.
Times, Sunday Times
It was this monotheism that seemed to have prompted a systematic attempt to obliterate the pharaoh's legacy and that of his successors.
Times, Sunday Times
Unfortunately, the editors made no systematic attempt to trace or indicate the origin and first use of a term or phrase.
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takeover attempt
The call came two weeks after regulators blocked a first 'shambolic' takeover attempt.
The Sun
The company played down speculation that it was vulnerable to a takeover attempt, blaming it on excitable investment bankers.
Times, Sunday Times
First takeover attempt ends in failure after deadline passes without money being paid.
The Sun
Some attorneys-general have scheduled a conference call today to discuss the hostile takeover attempt.
Globe and Mail
A takeover attempt in 2011 was abandoned after the phonehacking scandal, but experts said that they expected this deal to be accepted.
Times, Sunday Times
thwart an attempt
But they originally took legal action to thwart the attempt by freedom of information campaigners to disclose the claims.
Times, Sunday Times
He thus started seeking ways to become more powerful, hoping to thwart any attempt on his life by the vigilante group.
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He helps to thwart the attempt and becomes a small hero.
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Most penetrants are not compatible and therefore will thwart any attempt to identify defects that are already penetrated by any other penetrant.
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Then that vast reverberation thwarts all attempts at clarity.
Times, Sunday Times
undermine an attempt
Detectives are thought to be wary about potential entrapment or the use by journalists of leading lines of questioning, which would undermine any attempt to pursue a criminal case.
Times, Sunday Times
The toleration of a legal trade in ivory undermines attempts to stop the poaching.
Times, Sunday Times
Artificially restricting the size of the prison estate - causing overcrowding and undermining attempts at rehabilitation - costs society more in the long term.
Times, Sunday Times
The protesters said they had taken action 'as a last resort' because the school's management had undermined attempts to stop bad behaviour.
Times, Sunday Times
Priority traffic lights could undermine attempts to smooth traffic flows.
Times, Sunday Times
unsuccessful attempt to
The stoppage had been an unsuccessful attempt to get the print unions to accept new technology.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
October in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the governor.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He led an unsuccessful attempt to defeat the Bill on third reading.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The second unsuccessful attempt to be professed had a transforming effect on him.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
vain attempt to
Bus drivers clambered under their vehicles with blow torches in a vain attempt to defreeze their fuel tanks.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Those tiny forks, often themselves shaped like corn-cobs, are twee, and a vain attempt to gentrify an ungentle food.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He gives monosyllabic answers to the simplest of questions in a vain attempt to close down any area of questioning about his public life.
The Sun (2010)
We hug the coastline in a vain attempt to seek shelter from the wind.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
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Chinese: 尝试, 试图
Japanese: 試み, 試みる
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