He tried it; but in the darkness the distant echoes sounded so hideously that he tried it no more.

他试过，但是在黑暗中，远处的回声听起来是那么可怕，所以他不再去试它了。

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I thought it would reflect badly on me so I tried to hush the whole thing up.

我想此事会给我的公众形象造成很坏的影响，于是我想方设法不把它声张出去。

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So eventually, people tried to improve on Les Paul's model, well, to modify it I should say.

最终，人们试图改进莱斯·保罗的模型，应该说，是对其进行改良。

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Instead,he tried to describe a situation so well that the reader would understand the emotion in it.

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So I tried to give you one that you could draw pretty quickly, it just has hydrogens in It.

我试着快速的画出这个结构，这是氢原子。

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So I mean, we tried to be as academic about it as possible in trying to think rigorously through the different results that will guide if we go to different directions.

因此，我们一直尝试,以更为学术的姿态,更为严谨的态度来思考,不同的方式,可能产生的不同结果。

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So we tried it, and it just was a revelation.

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He did a great job of holding it up, playing me, so I tried to hit it low and hard at the far post.

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