I've been racking my brains all morning, trying to recall where I put my gold watch.
我整个上午都在绞尽脑汁，试图回忆起我把金表放在哪里了。
I have been trying to set up an interview with a company that looks like a great fit for me, but I have not been having any luck.
我一直在试图从看起来非常适合我的公司那里获得面试的机会，但是机会总是与我擦肩而过。
I spent the entire day trying to write-to no avail-when my time would've been better spent simply reading or doing something else I enjoy.
我花了一整天的时间想要写点什么东西-完全没用-或许把这些时间用在一些简单的阅读或者做一些自己喜欢的事上会更好。
I had a client who had been trying to understand why a certain series of events had happened to her and she had been trying for 25 years and still getting herself upset every time she spoke about it.
我有一个客户，她花了25年的时间一直在试着理解为什么某一系列的事件会发生在她身上，然而仍然在每次谈论起这件事时感觉难受。
When I asked her why she was still trying to understand it when she had not been able to figure it out for the last 25 years, she looked at me with a blank stare.
当我问她，既然在过去的25年里她一直不能理解，为什么她还会一直试着去理解它，她只是呆滞地看着我。
At that moment I began to realize that something must have been trying to get our attention.
那一刻，我意识到是有什么东西想引起我们的注意。
I think maybe that’s what folks have been trying to get through my thick head all these years: You can’t choose to have or not have an illness, but you can choose the way you opt to cope with it.
我想这可能也是朋友们这些年来敲破我木鱼脑袋都想灌输的讯息：你不能选择生不生病，但你可以选择怎样对待。
The convention press people obviously hadn't been told how long I was expected to speak, or what I was trying to do.
采访大会的媒体显然事先不知道我将讲多久，或者我想说的是什么。
I was trying to catch Edwards because I thought it would've been nice to have a last-lap race with him, but I didn't quite get to him.
我试图追赶Edwards，我觉得和他最后一圈一决雌雄那会很精彩，可最后没能实现。
Since we launched last100 (a Read/WriteWeb network blog) just over eight weeks ago, I’ve been obsessively trying out every Internet TV application that I can get my hands on.
8个星期来，我一直着迷于手边可以得到的每一款网络电视应用。
"I learned about this plane that was standing abandoned at Arlanda airport and I've been trying the concept of hostels in many different houses and buildings," he told reporters.
迪欧斯在接受记者采访时说：“之前我得知这架废弃的飞机停在阿兰达机场，我一直尝试把很多不同的房屋和建筑作为旅馆。”
The reason I didn't write anything until now is that I have been trying to find time to read the paper, understand the measurement, and comment intelligently on it.
我之所以之前没有写任何东西是因为我一直在试图花时间读那篇论文，理解这个实验，并理智的评论。
But for the first time in the three decades I have been forced to cope with mental illness, I understand what all those "you have a choice" people were trying to tell me.
但就在被迫进行精神治疗的这三年来，我第一次明白了那些说过“你还有更好选择”的人们，他们的用心良苦。
It's something I've been trying in the last few months, and I can attest that it works brilliantly.
在过去的几个月里我一直在尝试这些方法，我可以保证它们非常有效。
For the past few days I've been trying to figure out exactly how I do this, so I could help other people do the same thing.
过去的几天，我一直在试着弄清楚该如何做，这样我就可以帮助其他人做同样的事情。
I finally got a date with that girl I've been trying to go out with so long.
我总算和那个女孩约好了明天一起出去玩，这是我长久以来所梦寐以求的。
To this day, after spending the night with a woman, I feel I`ve been indulged and I must make it up somehow—to her by trying at least to love her, and to the world by facing up to it.
直到今天，在和一个女人度过了一晚之后，我感觉我已经无法自拔，我一定设法要加急补偿——至少要尽量去爱她，勇敢地去面对这个世界。
"I've been trying to move beyond The End of History ever since I wrote the book," Fukuyama says with weary patience. "But no matter what I write, everyone wants to ask me about it.".
尽管言辞简短，我仍震惊于他的镇静和安详，当提到使他成名的那些思想时，他颇有些不耐烦地说 ：“从我写作这部书时起，我就一直试图超越《历史的终结》，但是不论我写了什么，每个人都向我提起它。”
As I walked, I looked up, trying to realize what made this day so beautiful, so serene. It was as if time had been put temporarily on hold, and I along with it.
漫步雪中，举目四望，我努力思索是什么能够把这一天变得如此美丽和宁静，那一刻，时间仿佛停止了，而我也定格于其中。
I felt that Nim's life had been blighted by people projecting on to him human qualities and trying to make him something that he wasn't.
我感到尼姆的生活受到了那些人的摧残，他们计划给他灌输人类的特征，使他成为一个似是而非的'人'。
I had been trying to cook eggs, as I had read in some book, by burying them in the earth under a fire of sticks.
我还试过煮鸡蛋——有本书说，把鸡蛋埋在土里，再点上一把火，就可以在洞里煮蛋了。
For the past year I've been trying to buy fewer clothes anyway, realizing the number of clothes I own is based more on habit than practicality.
至少过去一年我很少买衣服，而我发现我拥有衣服的数量是取决于习惯而非实际需求。
I had been trying to make him into my image of the husband, just like the bird owner hating her bird because he didn't speak the way she wanted him to.
我曾试图把我丈夫改造成我想要的样子，就像那些鸟的主人讨厌他的鸟因为它不会说话一样。
"I think since the Garden of Eden we've been trying to figure this out - who's lying and who's not lying," says David Larcker, a professor of accounting at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.
“我想，自还在伊甸园里的开始，我们就开始设法辨别——谁在撒谎，谁没有撒谎，”斯坦福商学院会计学教授戴维·拉克尔说。
Yes, I've been very weak in the past always trying to avoid trouble; so I put up with a lot.
是的，我以前一直很软弱，总是设法避免麻烦，所以我总是忍受。
"I'd been wanting to have a child for a really long time, but I wasn't trying, just put it like that," Madonna says. "it was one of those weird surprises."
“很久以来我就想要个孩子，但并没有刻意去要，只是顺其自然，”麦当娜说：“那是种异样的兴奋。”
When I took this, I had been up for a while trying to photograph the Milky Way, and by the time this photo was taken I was running out of night.
当我拍这张照片时，必须高举相机一阵来拍到银河，花了一整晚我才拍到这张满意的照片。
I have been trying this for a long time, and the longer I try, the easier it gets.
我坚持这样做很长时间了，时间越久，这样做就越容易。
I have been trying this for a long time, and the longer I try, the easier it gets.
我坚持这样做很长时间了，时间越久，这样做就越容易。
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