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

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

Similarly, divination. Divination is an attempt to discern the future that, once again, heads right to the source of power.

类似的还有占卜术，占卜是一种试图看清未来的法术,它的终极目标，也是神力的源头。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The rim shot after a comic remark is an attempt to simulate--sort of a pre-technological attempt to simulate the sound of laughter.

讲完笑话，紧接着一阵鼓声,也是为了引起…,引起观众大笑的一种原始手段。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Speaking to supporters in the village of Teyit, Mr.Bakiyev, said there is an attempt to divide the country between north and south.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

He's been directing his project for actually several years, which is an attempt to give students to a much wider range of materials that they can use to help learn about Shakespeare and his work.

他已经指导这个项目,好几年了，试图给学生机会,接触更多更广的关于莎士比亚,及其作品的资料，来帮助学习。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

The vote,which has been postponed several times since 2005, is an attempt to find a lasting political solution to nearly a decade of internal conflict in the once stable West African nation.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

The last thing you want is to have the other firm undercut you, in an attempt to push prices down.

你最不想看到别的企业,通过降价来打压你

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

It read: "This is to inform you that an attempt will be made to supply Fort Sumter with food only.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

It tells you that any attempt to try to specify, to localize the position of an electron in such a system is futile.

这说明你试着任何尝试关于，使一个电子在这样一个系统中,确定其明确的位置是没有意义的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Critics say "Lines,Vines and Trying Times" is an attempt by the band to move into the adult market without dismissing younger fans.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

And so, to use the words with which Milton would begin Paradise Lost, " a theodicy is an attempt "to justify the ways of God to men."

因此，用弥尔顿在《失乐园》开头的话说，斯奥迪斯就是试图“证明上帝待人之法“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

I think what's going on in the harmony, the suggestion that we should think the mind like harmony as though the harmony of the body, is an early attempt to state the physicalist view.

推断精神像是，我们肉体的和声,展现了，对物理学家的观点的早期尝试。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The pro-secular campaigners charged that the probe is an attempt by the government to silence the opposition force.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

He is also believed to have been involved in a botched attempt to shoot down an Israeli charter jet leaving the Mombasa airport the same day.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

(Music) Google is making changes to the way it handles news content, in an apparent attempt to appease news providers who claim the Internet search giant is undermining their ability to charge subscribers.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

It also comes in the wake of the Pope's visit, which I think is also setting the groundwork for sort of a cultural dialogue, an attempt to have a new start at the level of symbols and culture and try and erase some of the hostility of the last 8 or 9 years,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.09