Mallory also was a member of the first Everest climbing attempt in nineteen twenty-two.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

There's a reason why the first attempt to even write about international law comes at this period.

这也就是为什么在这个时期,会有人在历史上第一次尝试撰写国际法

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

So this is really the first attempt, way back in the nineteenth century to study a market that's somewhere in the middle, where it happens most markets are there are two firms.

因此这就是它的第一个诱人之处,我们要回到十九世纪,去研究一个介于两者之间的市场,那个年代大多数市场都只有两家公司

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The first launch attempt was postponed after technicians discovered a hydrogen leak while the ship was on the launch pad.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

"Now,I understand that some believe that we should attempt a return to the surface of the Moon first, as previously planned."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

His first attempt at a perfect game came in 2007 against the Texas Rangers.

VOA: standard.2009.07.24

And a bigger example, a better example perhaps of a complete lack of context and a sort of almost amazingly glib attempt to revise history, is that Muhammad was the first sort of environmentalist."

VOA: standard.2010.07.19