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

• 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。
• He took up piano lessons, combining standard classical exercises with his own attempts at Gershwin.
  他上钢琴课，一边进行标准的经典作品的练习，一边自己尝试练习格什温的作品。
• His persistent attempts to complain to his superiors were blocked and ignored.
  他一再试图向上级投诉，但都被挡了回来并置之不理。
• Their attempts to clean up politics and smash the power of party machines failed.
  他们力图重整政坛、摧毁现有的政党机器，却以失败收场。
• Attempts to find civilian volunteers have met with embarrassing failure
  寻找平民志愿者的种种尝试都遭遇了令人难堪的失败。
• Attempts to limit family size among some minorities are likely to cause problems
  试图在某些少数民族地区限制生育可能会引起问题。
• There have been seven coup attempts against the beleaguered government.
  风雨飘摇的政府已经遭到了7次未遂政变的打击。
• 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。
• 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。
• Previous attempts at filtering and oxygenating aquarium water had failed.
  之前尝试过几次将鱼缸中的水过滤并充氧，但都没有成功。