据说他曾试图向一名同事求欢。用英语怎么说？

据说他曾试图向一名同事求欢。

He had allegedly tried to proposition a colleague.

he

pron. 他，它，一个人；n. 雄性动物；

例句
Logic had prevailed and he had abandoned the idea.
最终理智占了上风，他打消了那个念头。

had

v. 有（ have的过去式和过去分词 ），（亲属关系中）接受，拿，买到；

例句
He claimed that his parents had abandoned him...
他声称父母遗弃了他。

allegedly

adv. 依其申述，据说；

例句
The smugglers allegedly sold the gold under the counter, cheating the VAT man out of £5 million.
据说走私者暗地销售黄金，偷逃增值税达500万英镑。

tried

adj. 可靠地，经过考验的；v. 试图，努力( try的过去式和过去分词)，考验，磨炼，审讯；

例句
He was tried in absentia and sentenced to seven years in prison.
他被缺席判处七年监禁。

to

prep. 向，朝着，到，关于，属于；adv. 朝一个方向的，到某种状态，关闭；

例句
I suggest you leave it to an expert...
我建议你把它留给专家来解决。

proposition

n. 提议，建议，待处理的问题，主张；v. 向…提出下流的要求，求欢；

例句
The proposition that democracies do not fight each other is based on a tiny historical sample.
认为民主国家互不争斗的观点是以一个极小的历史样本为根据的。

colleague

n. 同事，同僚，同

例句
A colleague of mine in Milan devised the following very clever little experiment.
我在米兰的一个同事设计了下面这个非常巧妙的小实验。