首页英语词典attemptattempt的意思

attempt

英 [ə'tem(p)t] 美[ə'tɛmpt]

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近义词strive make try effort endeavor undertake an

反义词

n. 企图，试图；攻击
vt. 企图，试图；尝试

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词态变化

复数: attempts;第三人称单数: attempts;过去式: attempted;过去分词: attempted;现在分词: attempting;

中文词源

attempt 打算

前缀at-同ad-. -tempt, 同tend, 倾向。鼻音m,n音变。

英英释意

1. earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something;: "made an effort to cover all the reading material"; "wished him luck in his endeavor"; "she gave it a good try"

2. the act of attacking;: "attacks on women increased last year"; "they made an attempt on his life"

英文词源

attempt: attempt: [14] Attempting is etymologically related to tempting. The Latin verb attemptāre was formed with the prefix ad- from temptāre, which meant ‘try’ as well as ‘tempt’ (the semantic connection is preserved in modern English try, with the contrasting senses ‘attempt’ and ‘put to the test’). The Latin form passed into Old French as atenter (hence modern French attenter), but was later latinized back to attempter, the form in which English acquired it.
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attempt (v.): late 14c., from Old French attempter (14c.), earlier atenter "to try, attempt, test," from Latin attemptare "to try" (cognates: Italian attentare, Old Provençal, Portuguese attentar, Spanish atentar), from ad- "to, upon" (see ad-) + temptare "to try" (see tempt). Related: Attempted; attempting.
attempt (n.): 1530s, from attempt (v.). Meaning "effort to accomplish something by violence" is from 1580s, especially as an assault on someone's life.

同义词辨析

attempt, try, endeavour, strive

这些动词均含有"试图，努力，力图"之意。

attempt：较正式用词，侧重已经开始，且希望完成，但常隐含着不一定有预期的结果。

try：普通用词，可与attempt换用，但强调努力或尝试，后跟不定式表示努力或争取；后跟动名词表示尝试。

endeavour：正式用词，指尽最大努力、认真地克服困难去做某事。

strive和endeavour一样，表示付出巨大努力，但strive侧重劳累与紧张，而不强调努力的结果。

考试真题

The scientists suggest this may be an attempt to calm humans down.

A snowmobile driver had repeatedly attempted to harm her and her team, and one of Zircle’s dogs had received a non-lifethreatening injury.

You should live your life attempting to identify and control those things which you can genuinely control.

As she neared the end of her prison sentence, a well-known columnist wrote that she was paying her dues, and that there is simply no reason for anyone to attempt to deny her right to start anew.

Many of its 800 stores are likely to close following the company’s decision to call in administrators after an attempt to sell the business for a token £1 failed.

To show its early attempt to reinvent itself.

For some, the hardships of life without steady work eventually overwhelmed their attempts to keep their families together.

Facebook then attempts to make money by selling their data to advertisers that want to send targeted messages

About 9% attempted to conceal "nonessential Internet use," and nearly 4% reported feeling "preoccupied by the Internet when offline.

As she neared the end of her prison sentence, a well-known columnist wrote that she was "paying her dues," and that " there is simply no reason for anyone to attempt to deny her right to start anew."

Many of its 800 stores are likely to close following the company's decision to call in administrators after an attempt to sell the business for a token £1 failed.

Very Serious People's attempt to cripple the economy.

One recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this ecological overshoot of the human economy, and found that we are using 1.2 Earth's-worth of environmental goods and services—the implication being that at some point the debt will be called in, and all those services—the things which the planet does for us for free—will grind to a halt.

Missing from these bills is any serious attempt to rein in malpractice costs.

Brown and the Stockholm declaration were both attempting to point out.

Advertising informs consumers about the existence and benefits ofproducts and services and attempts to persuade them to buy them.

As the brain attempts to force the unsteady hand to do its bidding, the tension between the two results in a more compressed, psychologically denser expression.

By recapturing the attempt of the monarch and noting where they came from, the next scientist can figure out things like butterfly's age and its routing

Well, as your union representative, I have to warn you that it would take quite a while to force management to replace the old machines and attempt to get you transferred may or may not be successful.

Hawking was speaking at the opening of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCF) at Cambridge University, a multi-disciplinary institute that will attempt to tackle some of the open-ended questions raised by the rapid pace of development

I was lucky that my last desperate attempt led to a job.

It is the season for some frantic last-minute math一across the country, employees of all stripes are counting backward in an attempt to figure out just how much paid time-off they have left in their reserves.

missing from these bills is any serious attempt to rein in malpractice costs.

These improvements don't mean we shouldn't attempt to control our use of technology.

Every year about 40, 000 people attempt to climb kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa.

For years researchers have attempted to show that television is dangerous to children.

It is an attempt to deal with a set of weighty topics.

Silence may be viewed by some cultural groups as extremely uncomfortable; therefore attempts may be made to fill every gap 间隙 with conversation.

The proposal attempts to deal with what some call the "death valley" of autonomous vehicles: the grey area between semi-autonomous and fully driverless cars that could delay the driverless future.

These problems partly involve Brooks's attempt to translate his tale into science.

In his work, he attempted to show how all aspects of culture changed together in the evolution of societies.

Russell Gray at the University of Auckland and his colleagues consider the evolution of grammars in the light of two previous attempts to find universality in language.

In most of the homeless gardens of New York City the actual cultivation of plants is unfeasible, yet even so the compositions often seem to represent attempts to call arrangement of materials, an institution of colors, small pool of water, and a frequent presence of petals or leaves as well as of stuffed animals.

Across the Atlantic came successive groups of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Scots, Irishmen, Dutchmen, Swedes, and many others who attempted to transplant their habits and traditions to the new world.

A recent study attempts to separate them by looking at bribery prosecutions under America’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act( ' , FCPA).

This is why repeated attempts at reform legislation have failed in recent years, leaving the Postal Service unable to pay its bills except by deferring vital modernization.

It is an ambitious attempt to blunt the sharpest edges of globalization, and make capitalism benign.

实用场景例句

Do not attempt to repair this yourself.: 不要试图自己修理这个东西。

The prisoners attempted an escape, but failed.: 囚犯企图逃跑，但失败了。

I will attempt to answer all your questions.: 我将努力回答你的全部问题。

Two factories were closed in an attempt to cut costs.: 为削减费用，关闭了两家工厂。

They made no attempt to escape.: 他们没有企图逃跑。

I passed my driving test at the first attempt .: 我考汽车驾驶执照一次就通过了。

The couple made an unsuccessful attempt at a compromise.: 这对夫妇试图和解但未成功。

Someone has made an attempt on the President's life .: 有人企图刺杀总统。

his attempt on the world land speed record: 他为创造陆上速度世界纪录所作的尝试

Everything is almost ready for me to make another attempt on the record.: 一切几乎都已准备就绪，就等我向纪录发起再一次冲击了。

The only time that we attempted to do something like that was in the city of Philadelphia...: 只有在费城那次我们曾试着做那样的事。

Before I could attempt a reply he added over his shoulder: 'Wait there.': 还没等我回答他就回头又说了一句：“在那儿等着。”

...a deliberate attempt to destabilise the defence...: 经过深思熟虑的破坏该防御的尝试

It was one of his rare attempts at humour.: 那是他极不常见的想要表现幽默的一次。

...an attempt on the life of the former Iranian Prime Minister.: 试图杀害伊朗前总理

The enemy troops were put to rout all along the line.: 敌军已全线崩溃.

Hitherto he had experienced no great success in his attempt.: 到目前为止,他的尝试还没获得成功.

He dived his hand into his pocket in an attempt to find the key.: 他把手伸到口袋里摸,试图找到那把钥匙.

They were foiled in their attempt.: 他们的企图成了泡影.

The guards thwarted his attempt to escape from prison.: 警卫阻扰了他越狱的企图.

Over a year passed before the first attempt was made.: 一年多的时间过去之后,才作了首次尝试.

Writers of history books often attempt to integrate the past with the present.: 写历史书的人总是力图把过去与现在联系起来.

We retraced our route in an attempt to get back on the right path.: 我们折返,想回到正确的路上.

They made an attempt on a fortress.: 他们试图夺取这一要塞.

He made an unsuccessful attempt to stop the thief.: 他试图捉住小偷,但未能成功.

That was an abortive attempt.: 这是一种失败的尝试.

Scientists think they have broken through in their attempt to find the causes of many major diseases.: 科学家们认为,他们在探索主要病症的病因方面有了新的进展.

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