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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He tried it.

他试了试。

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This fruit smells terrible to me, so I've never tried it.

这种水果对我来说味道很难闻，所以我从来没有尝试过。

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They tried it in test tubes containing the parasites.

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5 I then tried it on 0.25 One quarter.

然后我试试0。

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You could tell your friend that you've tried it and it didn't work by using the "I've already" pattern.

你可以用“I've already”句型告诉你朋友，你已经用过了，却没什么效果。

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Thankfully, this never happened to me, but I did have a colleague who tried it.

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She had tried it before, mainly as a road-trip snack, but found the texture dry.

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But Barlogie tried it a second time--and that patient is still alive eight years later.

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