可能要经过几次失败的尝试和困境，你才能最终偶然发现你人生的真正目标。

It might take a few failed attempts and dead ends before you finally hit upon the true purpose of your life.

youdao

但是去年的膝伤不断和一个失败的尝试让他成了控球后卫，以至于减缓了他的进步。

But a major knee injury last year, and a failed attempt to make him a point guard, slowed his progress.

youdao

也要使您失败的尝试对其他人可用，也许其他人对某个实用程序具有您所不需要的用途。

Make your failed attempts available, too; other people may have a use for a utility you didn't need.

youdao

And so, Descartes' attempt to establish the distinctness of the mind, the immateriality of the mind, on the basis of this Cartesian thought experiment, I think that's unsuccessful.

所以,笛卡尔试图,用他的卡式思想实验来证明,心灵的独立存在性,和非物质性,我认为这种尝试是失败的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

By our informal count, however, we and the Afghan commandoes we work with were stopped on 70 percent of our attempts because we could not achieve the requisite 11 approvals in time.

粗略估算了一下，与我们一道工作的阿富汗突击队,有70%的尝试都失败了,因为我们不能按时拿到所需的11个批准。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

That is a Greek idea of hell, where you got to keep trying and you always lose. So, that's the picture and you have to realize that death is a bad thing.

这就是希腊式的地狱,你不断尝试,却终究会失败,就是这样的场景,你必须得认识到死亡是不好的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选