They made no attempt to escape.

他们没有企图逃跑。

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She makes no attempt to stifle a yawn.

她并未试图忍住一个哈欠。

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She made a pathetic attempt to smile.

她勉强地微微一笑。

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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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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。

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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。

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An attempt to get Mr Reeves' diseased remaining kidney to work was also doomed.

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Given the cost of building ever larger sea walls, there is an attempt to harness Nature's own defences.

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"People looked at it as eSpeed's vain attempt to stop their momentum, " says a veteran trader.

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