But any attempt to send more men or supplies would be seen as an act of war civil war.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

There would be some sort of cooking, some attempt to store food for when people may have been hungry later, etc.

食物会被烹制,有人试着储藏食物,以防饥饿

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Sometimes the old aristocracy will be able to hold on for a very long time and to suppress any attempt to change things.

有时一些老贵族,会冥顽不灵,固执己见,试图遏止这些变革力量

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It would be the last chance for Gemini Six to attempt to meet with Gemini Seven in space.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

The city and soul analogy could be seen then as an attempt to understand how societies reproduce themselves, and how they shape citizens who again in turn shape the societies in which they inhabit.

城市与灵魂的比拟,可以视为是尝试了解,社会如何自我复制，及形塑公民,后者相对地,也在形塑他们所居住的社会。

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If this attempt is not opposed, no effort will be made to throw in men,arms or ammunition."

VOA: special.2009.08.06

The expression may be used to describe a politician's last campaign, his final attempt to win the cheers and votes of the people.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

If an attempt is made to put more men in Fort Sumter, a war cry will be sounded from every hilltop and valley in the South."

VOA: special.2009.08.06

But there would be no further attempt to make it a slave state.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

Should an attempt be made to get supplies to Major Anderson?

VOA: special.2009.08.06

"What it appears to be is an attempt to save face with the government, which is asking for help,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

Those explosions were thought to be an attempt by local al-Qaida forces to destabilize the country before parliamentary elections last month.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

South Korea,Japan, and the United States say the launch will be a provocative attempt to advance North Korea's ability to deliver warheads, via ballistic missiles.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

Political analyst Masha Lipman at the Moscow Carnegie Center says President Medvedev's appeal to Islamic spiritual leaders may be an attempt to contrast ordinary with radical Islam.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01