To attempt a marketing strategy to encompass all women based on the fact that they make up 50% of the population is a futile exercise.

女性占人口50%是事实，但是因此而试图采取接纳所有女性的市场策略徒劳无功。

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Most biologists now accept that the tree is not a fact of nature - it is something we impose on nature in an attempt to make the task of understanding it more tractable.

现在大多数生物学家都同意，这棵树不是自然生长的——这是人类试图使理解大自然这件差事更易驾驭而强加给自然界的有价值的事物。

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Mercury will retrograde in your houses of work and committed relationships, so this is where you will need to reflect on recent events and make another attempt to improve things.

水星会在你命盘中掌管工作和承诺的关系的部分逆行，所以你会需要好好考虑最近发生的事件并尝试作出改进。

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The fifty-nine year old Watson needed to make a short attempt on his final hole to win the British Open.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

Protesters gathered on the Capitol lawn during the debate, yelling in an attempt to make their own voices heard.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

Later this year a rocket incorporating the new motor will make an attempt on the UK rocket altitude record, which stands at 10, 540 m (34, 579 ft) and is held by the Mars group.

BBC: Hybrid success for British rocket

The Corona, created under the guidance of Gene Bauman, VP and General Manager of SMCC's Desktop Systems and Workstations Product Group, represents Sun's attempt to make good on many of the promises that it failed to deliver a couple of years ago.

FORBES: Sun's Ultra-Secret PC-Killer

Altavista's move is seen as an attempt to make up ground on Freeserve, MSN and the other multitude of UK ISPs.

BBC: The growth of Altavista