attempts

英 [əˈtempts]

美 [əˈtempts]

n.  企图; 试图; 尝试; 杀人企图; (为超越某事物的)尝试，努力
v.  努力; 尝试; 试图
attempt的第三人称单数和复数

IELTS

柯林斯词典

• VERB 尝试，试图（尤指做困难的事）
  If youattempt todo something, especially something difficult, you try to do it.
  1. 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。
  2. 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 anattempt todo something, you try to do it, often without success.
  1. ...a deliberate attempt to destabilise the defence...
     经过深思熟虑的破坏该防御的尝试
  2. 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。
  3. ...their involvement in a coup attempt in September.
     他们参与了9月的那场失败的政变
• N-COUNT 杀人企图
  Anattempt onsome-one's life is an attempt to kill them.
  1. ...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 anattempt ona sporting record, they try to beat it. In American English you say that they make anattempt tobreak it.
  1. 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。

双语例句

• Her attempts to reprimand him were quickly shouted down.
  她本想斥责他，但很快就被大声喝止了。
• She never abandoned her attempts to plumb my innermost emotions
  她从未放弃过探究我内心深处情感的尝试。
• The film attempts neither to dramatize nor sermonize.
  这部电影既不企图使用戏剧化的手法也不企图进行说教。
• She showed real character in her attempts to win over the crowd
  她在努力获得民众的支持时，表现出真正的人格力量。
• His stumbling attempts at colloquial Russian amused her.
  他结结巴巴地学说俄语，把她逗乐了。
• Three attempts on the British 200-metre record also ended in failure.
  对英国200米纪录发起的3次冲击也均以失败而告终。
• There have been previous attempts at coups. We regard such methods as entirely unacceptable
  以前也有人试图发动政变。我们绝对不能接受这种做法。
• Attempts to correlate specific language functions with particular parts of the brain have not advanced very far
  人们试图把特定的语言功能与大脑的某些特定部位联系起来，这一努力目前还没有取得很大进展。
• Attempts have been made to bounce member states into decisions with major financial implications.
  已经努力迫使成员国制定具有重大金融意义的决策。
• Numerous attempts to persuade him to write his memoirs came to nought.
  无数次劝他写回忆录的尝试均以失败告终。