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n. 努力，尝试，企图16 次
At the time of creation, no attempts were made at intentional preservation, yet analog materials have a chance of surviving and serving as the historical record that biographers, historians, and novelists rely on.
在创作之时，人们并没有刻意去保存它们，但模拟（实物）材料却有机会留存下来，成为传记作家、历史学家和小说家所依赖的历史记录。
That makes it sound easy, and artificial, but Peters insists it is still a massive challenge. He typically takes between 10,000 and 20,000 shots to get one butterfly take-off sequence in focus. At such high shutter speeds, the depth of field is tiny, and as butterflies do not fly in a straight line they swiftly flutter out of focus. As well as thousands of attempts, it takes patience and fieldcraft to anticipate a butterfly’s likely flight-line — and catch it — in focus.
这听起来既简单又人为，但彼得斯坚称这仍是一项巨大的挑战。他通常要拍一万到两万张照片，才能得到一组对焦清晰的蝴蝶起飞序列。在如此高的快门速度下，景深非常小，而且蝴蝶并不沿直线飞行，很快就会扑腾着飞出焦点。除了成千上万次的尝试，还需要耐心和野外经验来预判蝴蝶可能的飞行路线——并在焦点内捕捉到它。
This was an attempt to recover the valuable nails, which could be reused after sifting the ashes.
这是为了回收宝贵的钉子，这些钉子从灰烬中筛出后可以再次使用。
an attempt to facilitate intergenerational communication.
一种促进代际交流的尝试。
(50) Just as the code breaking has its wider relevance in the struggle for Spain, so his attempts to make his way up the promotion ladder speak volumes about British society.
（50）正如破译密码在争夺西班牙的斗争中具有更广泛的意义一样，他努力沿着晋升阶梯向上攀登的经历也充分反映了英国社会的状况。
In the meantime, the court threw out the FCC’s attempt to block all state rules on net neutrality, while preserving the commission’s power to preempt individual state laws that undermine its order.
与此同时，法院驳回了FCC阻止各州制定一切网络中立规则的企图，但保留了该委员会优先于（并否决）破坏其命令的个别州法律的权力。
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a self-deceiving attempt.
一种自欺欺人的尝试。
(48) Despite attempts by the Church to suppress this new generation of logicians and rationalists, more explanations for how the universe functioned were being made at a rate that the people could no longer ignore.
(48) 尽管教会试图压制这新一代的逻辑学家和理性主义者，但关于宇宙如何运行的解释层出不穷，其速度之快已让人们无法再忽视。
(48) Attempts have been made to curb this tendency, for example, by trying to incorporate some measure of quality as well as quantity into the assessment of an applicant’s papers.
(48) 人们已经尝试遏制这种趋势，例如，在评估申请人的论文时，努力把对质量和数量的某种衡量都纳入其中。
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.
这就是为什么近年来多次改革立法的尝试都以失败告终，致使邮政署除了推迟至关重要的现代化建设外，无法支付账单。
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 forth the spirit of plant and animal life, if only symbolically, through a clumplike arrangement of materials, an introduction of colors, small pools of water, and a frequent presence of petals or leaves as well as of stuffed animals.
在纽约市的大多数无家可归者花园里，真正种植植物是不可行的，但即便如此，这些布置似乎常常代表着一种尝试，试图通过将材料成簇排列、引入色彩、设置小水池以及频繁摆放花瓣、树叶和毛绒动物等方式，唤起动植物的生命精神，哪怕只是象征性的。
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.
奥克兰大学的拉塞尔·格雷及其同事参照此前两次寻找语言普遍性的尝试，来考察语法的演变。
But as companies continue their attempts at personalized medicine, the courts will remain rather busy.
但随着各公司继续尝试个性化医疗，法院仍将相当忙碌。
It is an ambitious attempt to blunt the sharpest edges of globalisation, and make capitalism benign.
这是一次雄心勃勃的尝试，旨在缓和全球化最尖锐的锋芒，使资本主义变得温和。
He has also criticised the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's high-profile attempt to improve school lunches in England as an example of how “lecturing” people was not the best way to change their behaviour.
他还批评了名厨杰米·奥利弗为改善英格兰学校午餐而高调做出的努力，称这个例子说明“说教”并不是改变人们行为的最佳方式。
A Google search can leak between 0.2 and 7.0 grams of CO₂, depending on how many attempts are needed to get the “right” answer.
一次谷歌搜索可能排放0.2至7.0克二氧化碳，具体取决于需要尝试多少次才能得到“正确”答案。
vt. 企图，试图6 次
Communities throughout New England have been attempting to regulate short-term rentals since sites like Airbnb took off in the 2010s.
自爱彼迎（Airbnb）等网站在21世纪10年代兴起以来，新英格兰各地的社区一直在尝试监管短期租赁。
Issues arise, however, when developers attempt to create large-scale short-term rental facilities — de facto hotels — to bypass taxes and regulations.
然而，当开发商试图建造大规模的短租设施——实际上就是酒店——来规避税收和监管时，问题就出现了。
A recent paper, titled “The Natural Selection of Bad Science”, published on the Royal Society’s open science website, attempts to answer this intriguing and important question.
最近发表在英国皇家学会开放科学网站上的一篇题为《糟糕科学的自然选择》的论文，试图回答这个耐人寻味又十分重要的问题。
A recent study attempts to separate them by looking at bribery prosecutions under America’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
最近一项研究试图通过考察依据美国《反海外腐败法》（FCPA）提起的贿赂诉讼，把这些效应区分开来。
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.
英格兰人、法国人、德国人、苏格兰人、爱尔兰人、荷兰人、瑞典人以及其他许多民族一批接一批地横渡大西洋而来，试图把他们的习惯和传统移植到新大陆。
Arizona had attempted to fashion state policies that ran parallel to the existing federal ones.
亚利桑那州曾试图制定与现行联邦政策并行的州政策。