attempting

英 [əˈtemptɪŋ]

美 [əˈtemptɪŋ]

v.  努力; 尝试; 试图
attempt的现在分词

现在分词：attempting　

柯林斯词典

• VERB 尝试，试图（尤指做困难的事）
  If youattempt todo something, especially something difficult, you try to do it.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。”
• N-COUNT （通常指不成功的）尝试，企图，试图
  If you make anattempt todo something, you try to do it, often without success.
  1. ...a deliberate attempt to destabilise the defence...
     经过深思熟虑的破坏该防御的尝试
  2. 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。
  3. ...their involvement in a coup attempt in September.
     他们参与了9月的那场失败的政变
• N-COUNT 杀人企图
  Anattempt onsome-one's life is an attempt to kill them.
  1. ...an attempt on the life of the former Iranian Prime Minister.
     试图杀害伊朗前总理
• N-COUNT （运动员创造纪录的）尝试，冲击
  In British English, if a sportsman or sportswoman makes anattempt ona sporting record, they try to beat it. In American English you say that they make anattempt tobreak it.
  1. 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。

双语例句

• He is attempting a difficult task.
  他正在试图完成一项困难的任务。
• The enemy repeatedly charged up the mountain, attempting to knock us out.
  敌人反复向山上冲锋，企图消灭我们。
• He is attempting to carry out a plan.
  他正试图去执行一个计划。
• A youth was inside the car, attempting to hot-wire it.
  一个小青年正在车里试图用电线短路的方法发动汽车。
• He is not attempting necessarily to reproduce the cadence of speech.
  他不想刻意重复那种讲话的语调。
• Attempting makes you more effort.
  企图心使你更努力！
• Instead of bullying and scaring people, the prophets of energy technology are attempting to seduce them.
  能源技术的预言企图诱惑他们而不是威胁和恐吓。
• Difficulties arise in attempting to understand the mechanisms of antiarrhythmic drug action for several reasons.
  在企图了解抗心律失常药物作用的机制中产生某些困难是有一些原因的。
• The statement clearly was intended to caution Seoul against attempting to block the council's action again
  显然，这个声明的目的是要警告首尔不要尝试再次阻拦委员会的行动。
• This will ensure that there are no errors before attempting to execute the reports.
  这将确保，在试图执行报告之前，报告中没有错误。