...hing; try 开始做;试做;企图;试图 2) attempt somebody's life (old use); try to kill somebody (旧时用法)企图谋害某人的性命 1) attempt to do something/ attempt at doing something 尝试做某事,企图做某事 ..
Now you have to allow the police eventually, if they think somebody's going tokill them or trytokill them, to be able to act with all the expertise they have in self-defence and they're trained not tokillsomebody but to disarm them and disable them, perfectly proper.