attempts是什么意思？

attempts

• n. 进攻( attempt的名词复数 )，（尤指）企图杀害；
• v. 试图( attempt的第三人称单数 )，尝试，试图夺取或攻克（堡垒、要塞等），试图征服（高山）；

例句

• desperate attempts to stave off civil war 孤注一掷地避免内战的努力
• Their attempts at conciliation had failed and both sides were once again in dispute. 他们进行调停的努力失败了,双方再次陷入争吵。
• attempts to woo undecided voters 游说未作出决定的选民的努力
• He made several attempts but none of them came off. 他进行了几次尝试, 但却没成功。
• All attempts to salvage the wrecked ship failed. 抢救失事船只的一切努力都失败了。
• He made strenuous attempts to stop her. 他为阻止她付出了极大的努力。
• attempts to straighten out the river 将河道改直的尝试
• The President’s attempts to be all things to all men had disastrous consequences. 总统企图讨好各方的做法招致了灾难性的后果。
• They made frantic attempts to revive him. 他们拼命地努力让他苏醒过来。
• attempts to foment rebellion in the Cabinet 在內阁煽动叛乱的企图

英语四级真题

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

英语六级真题

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.
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  尝试，试图（尤指做困难的事）
  If you attempt to do something, especially something difficult, you try to do it.
  例句
  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。”
• N-COUNT
  （通常指不成功的）尝试，企图，试图
  If you make an attempt to do something, you try to do it, often without success.
  例句
  ...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。
• N-COUNT
  杀人企图
  An attempt on some-one's life is an attempt to kill them.
  例句
  ...an attempt on the life of the former Iranian Prime Minister. 试图杀害伊朗前总理
• N-COUNT
  （运动员创造纪录的）尝试，冲击
  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.
  例句
  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。