attempt to

常见例句

His attempt to deceive us was foiled.
他企图欺骗我们，但最终失败了。
The police balked the attempt to kidnap the child.
警方挫败了诱拐小孩的企图。
They forestalled any attempt to steal the jewels by having them moved to a safer place.
他们把珠宝转移到了一个较为安全的地方，阻止了任何偷窃珠宝的企图。

As a congressman and a senator, he had voted against every attempt to give more power to the federal government.
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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It could be an attempt to play to the country's powerful military, to win its support.
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