He ordered the Treasury Department to sell gold to block the attempt by Gould and Fisk to control the gold market.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

That is to say, it is legitimate and proper to search for pleasure, for each individual to attempt to please himself however he can.

就是说,每个个人都有权利去追求快乐,每个个人都有权利想方设法满足自己

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The most outrageous action in Laud's crackdown was his move to ban -his attempt to ban preaching in churches.

他所做过的最骇人听闻的暴行,是企图在教堂里禁止布道训诫行为。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The fifty-nine year old Watson needed to make a short attempt on his final hole to win the British Open.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

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

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

And early Christianity was an attempt to pull all these things into one unified movement, in some way, to get some kind of uniformity of belief and practice.

早期基督教试图,将这些组织成统一运动，以某种方式，以获得某种划一的信仰与行动。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

As a congressman and a senator, he had voted against every attempt to give more power to the federal government.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

When we finished last time, we were looking at John Stuart Mill's attempt to reply to the critics of Bentham's Utilitarianism.

上节课结束时，我们讲到约翰·斯图尔特·穆勒试图回应,对边沁功利主义的批判。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Instead, if you attempt to open a Flash page, you get what has become known as "the blue Lego of death."

VOA: special.2010.06.22

The speech of Socrates before the jury is perhaps the most famous attempt to put democracy itself on trial.

苏格拉底面对陪审团的演说,也许是最著名的试探,意图将民主本身推向审判台。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

At sixty degrees below zero, a man with wet feet must not fail in his first attempt to build a fire.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

So here's my attempt to make the question both a bit more precise, and a question that's an open question.

我正尝试,让这两个问题变得更准确,这是个开放性的问题

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Some students work for a year or two in a medical or research job before they attempt to enter medical school.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

Here he is in his paper and says at that time I decided that it was advantageous to find a more general system of the elements and here is my attempt.

他在论文中说，当时,我觉得发现更多,的元素的通用系统是很有用的,这就是我的计划。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The report said the director of the Climatic Research Unit did not attempt to hide evidence disputing the warming of Earth's atmosphere.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

This is his first attempt at writing back to her.

这是他的第一封回信。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It did not have enough soldiers to stop any real attempt by Confederate forces to seize the city.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Most of those who attempt to sell too late and buy too late and do both too often, incurring heavy expenses and developing too unsettled and speculative state of mind."

大多数试图晚卖或晚买的人,或者经常既晚卖又晚买的人会损失惨重,而且变得心神不定还特别喜欢投机

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

A short time later,John Carter, the Princess and their friend, the green Martian woman Sola, attempt to escape rather than face death.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

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

On June fourth, Mallory and team member Andrew Irvine left their base camp for the team's final attempt to reach the summit.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

So if I post it on Wednesday to cover the material for that week, then you should attempt it as quickly as possible because I'm going to assume you have done the problems when you come for the next few lectures.

如果我周三布置了关于该周课堂内容的作业,你们应该尽快着手去做,因为当你下周来上新课时,我会假设大家都已经把上周题目做完了

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Newer drugs attempt to suppress only one small part of the immune system, not all of it.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

By extension we have our attempt as readers to arrive at an understanding of the first two books in general.

延伸开来，我们作为作者，试图,达成对这两卷书的大体上的理解。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

In this final assertion of the body Milton, I think, is able to recover his theodicy, his attempt to justify the ways of God here on earth.

在这最后的肉体的宣言中，弥尔顿，达成了他的斯奥迪斯，他想要证明上帝在人间之所为的企图。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The superfluous action suggests that there was something more at stake, perhaps, than Saint Ebba's attempt to ward off sexual assault.

过多的行动表明，有比,圣人Ebba试图保护自己不受侵犯更有风险的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选