That wasn't bad for a first attempt.

第一次尝试，还算不错。

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A first attempt at a Black-Green coalition in the city-state of Hamburg fell apart last November.

去年十一月首次尝试在城市之邦汉堡组建黑绿联盟，但最终流产。

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A first attempt at the XML format, in Listing 1, demonstrates a simple window, a panel, and button.

第一个xml格式示例(见清单1)展示了一个简单的窗口、一个面板和一个按钮。

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

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There's a reason why the first attempt to even write about international law comes at this period.

这也就是为什么在这个时期,会有人在历史上第一次尝试撰写国际法

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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

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After a first attempt fails, many will never repeat the effort.

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The Progress 47 successfully completed the docking test on its second try, after a first attempt on July 23 was prematurely aborted due to a technical glitch.

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The image wasn't perfect (expected for a first attempt), as at certain times the signal would wig out and at others -- when the ball moved fast enough -- it got fuzzy.

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