What began as an attempt at artistic creation has turned into a marketable commodity.

原本艺术创作上的一个尝试最终变成了一个可以出售的商品。

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The process of establishing a literary canon is seen by some as, in part, an attempt by certain scholars to make their own labors central and to relegate the work of others to marginal status.

在某些人看来，确立文学经典的过程，在某种程度上是某些学者把自己的工作放在中心位置，而把别人的工作放在次要地位的一种尝试。

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The proposal might be regarded by some as a self-deceiving attempt.

有些人可能认为这项建议是一次自欺欺人的尝试。

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

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

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It comes at a pivotal point in U.S.-Iraqi relations, as both sides attempt to form a new working relationship.

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Many see the Paisley strategy as a prolonged attempt to tar the Ulster Unionists as traitors, rather than a genuine attempt to bring the government down.

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Small wonder, then, that Mr Levy's resignation was seen as a canny attempt to make as unratlike a departure as possible from Mr Netanyahu's foundering ship.

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This drill will be used, engineers say, for the so-called plan B, as a parallel attempt to a drill a rescue shaft down to the miners.

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