But Helen wanted to keep trying. She said, "I think it will make my mind stronger to do it now."

VOA: special.2009.11.08

Know what you've already tried, don't waste your time trying it again.

记住你已经尝试过的错误，不要再次浪费你的时间。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But this year, it's my senior year, so I'm just trying to take it easy and... take my classes.

但是今年我已经大四了，所以不想再那么忙了，就……好好地上课吧。

写作课程比较难 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He knew that the South African government was trying to change its image so it could take part in the Olympic Games.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

Who was also one of the word's first programmers. So she was trying to write this program, and it didn't work.

也是世界上最早的几个程序员之一,她正尝试着完成一个,复杂的求反正切的程序。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Some neighbors say that while GW is trying to be friendlier to the environment, it could also be a better friend to the neighborhood.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

I think it's also the struggle of a generation trying to enrich the public square with positive conversation about religion.

我认为这也是我们这一代人的努力,我们试图通过积极地谈论宗教,来丰富社会生活。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

I think trying to understand our world is a really complicated endeavor and it's important to have a sort of solid rational approach like science does."

VOA: special.2009.12.01

You set yourself the goal of trying to put yourself in the situation imaginatively of what it's like to be dead.

你给自己一个目标,试着假想自己,在死亡这种情况下。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Or if you are trying to rest your voice but it keeps getting worse.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

It's going to be your way of analyzing your own diet and trying to make sense of it.

大家需要按自己的方式,分析自己的饮食并进行解读

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

It is told by four speakers, each trying to discover what the story means.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

He's trying to put eight electrons around helium, and it isn't working. But look down here.

他尝试把8个电子放在氦的周围，但那不行，但注意到这里。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

And I spent my second year in New York trying to create it.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

So there's this guy with this helmet, it must weigh--I'm trying to think.

那么士兵戴着这个头盔,应该是很沉的,我想想

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

American Marines were trying to capture it.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

His magic is directed at the metadivine realm, trying to tap into its powers. It's not directed at the gods. It's trying to tap into the ultimate source of power to use that power to influence the gods in a particular way or protect oneself against the gods.

这种法术的对象是超神领域，试图获得其中的神力,它不直接针对神，而是通过接近,神力的源头来获得力量，用特殊的方式影响众神,或保护某人不受到神的伤害。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"I was trying," he said, "to put the history of mankind in one sentence." Later he said, "I am still trying to do it, but now I want to put it all on the head of a pin."

VOA: special.2010.01.03

It will help, rather than all trying to do it individually.

这样做是有好处的,比每个人都单打独斗要强

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Emily Mortimer and Patricia Clarkson are characters he encounters at the hospital trying to unravel the mystery (before it unravels him);

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

I got interested in this--well, I got interested in this as a developmental psychologist watching my own children laugh and trying to figure out what it is that made them laugh.

我对笑感兴趣…,身为一个长成心理学家,当我看到我孩子笑时，我就对这个议题感兴趣了,我想弄明白是什么令他们笑的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"It's telling us the regime might be trying to use any good will over the elections as a smokescreen."

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

And they end this paper with the following quote: "It may be that trying to be happier is as futile as trying to be taller " and is therefore counterproductive."

论文用以下这句话作结尾：,“想变得更快乐,和想变高一样徒劳,只会适得其反“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

We were always trying to make it; health care was an issue, buying food,the basic needs to care for her children,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

What's it trying to do?

目的如何？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"It's also trying to overcome the fear of cholera, because it's a new disease and it's unknown and it strikes quickly,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

I mean we haven't, we don't really have a second version which is constantly... So I guess for most of last school year I just worked on scaling and kind of trying to make it keep up with the increasing load and trying to make it so that we can expand more, adding more schools.

说实话，我们从来没有,第二个版本。,我记得，在上一学年大部分时间里,我都在致力于扩大网站规模,这样是为了应对,不断增长的访问量,我试着完成目标，这样就能吸引更多学校。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

It is part of a larger investigation aimed at trying to identify those individuals he was in contact with.

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

you are going up against the most, whole population trying to get the same job even if it's a dishwashing job.

你要和多数人竞争，因为所有人都在努力找工作，哪怕只是个洗碗的工作。

美国的失业情况 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

but they were saying the funds, they were low on funds, so they were trying to close it much earlier,

但公园的资金却出现了短缺，所以他们试着要提早关门。

河滨公园 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人