Critics say "Lines,Vines and Trying Times" is an attempt by the band to move into the adult market without dismissing younger fans.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And early Christianity was an attempt to pull all these things into one unified movement, in some way, to get some kind of uniformity of belief and practice.

早期基督教试图,将这些组织成统一运动，以某种方式，以获得某种划一的信仰与行动。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Two other traditions for welcoming the New Year are a midnight kiss and an attempt to sing a song that almost no one knows.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

The last thing you want is to have the other firm undercut you, in an attempt to push prices down.

你最不想看到别的企业,通过降价来打压你

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But it was also an attempt to establish a top professional level for soccer in America.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

It's this sense of injustice that keeps pushing this elegy in the direction of a theodicy: an attempt to justify the ways of God.

正是这种愤愤不平使这首悼亡诗,越来越像斯奥迪斯：试图证明上帝之所为。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But last year, increasing gas prices and decreasing sales forced the company to seek billions of dollars in government aid in an attempt to avoid failure.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

The rim shot after a comic remark is an attempt to simulate--sort of a pre-technological attempt to simulate the sound of laughter.

讲完笑话，紧接着一阵鼓声,也是为了引起…,引起观众大笑的一种原始手段。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

If an attempt is made to put more men in Fort Sumter, a war cry will be sounded from every hilltop and valley in the South."

VOA: special.2009.08.06

There were communes in other cities, too, with a variety of demands, in Limoges, in Lyon and in Marseilles, and even an attempt in Bordeaux.

其它的城市也有公社,诉求各异的公社,在里摩日,甚至在波尔多地区都有

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

It was an attempt to cool the highly radioactive fuel rods from overheating.

VOA: special.2011.03.19

So the harmony analogy is I think an attempt, and not a bad attempt, at gesturing towards the question how do physicalists think about the mind.

所以我认为和声的类比是个尝试，而且是不错的尝试,尝试解读物理学家如何思考精神。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Even if he was on this train." His moving to the city is an attempt to move away from the natural world and become a thing,a machine.

VOA: special.2010.12.26

He's been directing his project for actually several years, which is an attempt to give students to a much wider range of materials that they can use to help learn about Shakespeare and his work.

他已经指导这个项目,好几年了，试图给学生机会,接触更多更广的关于莎士比亚,及其作品的资料，来帮助学习。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

The congressional compromise was an attempt to settle all these problems.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

An attempt. You have to give him credit.

一次尝试，你们必须要赞扬他。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

However,he was unsuccessful in an attempt to buy Cuba from Spain.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

So here, you have an attempt to distinguish higher from lower pleasures.

至此，大家已经试图区分了高级和低级快乐。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Should an attempt be made to get supplies to Major Anderson?

VOA: special.2009.08.06

we can run the engine backward and build a refrigerator, if you've got your lecture notes from last period your 8-9, well, they're labeled 8-9 lecture notes, I made an attempt to define something which was a little bit misguided.

现在我们可以把热机倒过来,制作一台制冷机，如果你们拿出上节课的笔记,也就是8-9节，好的，他们在8-9节，当时我试着,定义了一些,有些误导你们的物理量。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

"What it appears to be is an attempt to save face with the government, which is asking for help,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

The city and soul analogy could be seen then as an attempt to understand how societies reproduce themselves, and how they shape citizens who again in turn shape the societies in which they inhabit.

城市与灵魂的比拟,可以视为是尝试了解,社会如何自我复制，及形塑公民,后者相对地,也在形塑他们所居住的社会。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

I think that Avatar was an attempt to merge science fiction back to its roots of having a warning."

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

The English Revolution came about, in large part, because of King Charles' attempt to impose an alien religious conformity, as well as tighter political control on his kingdom.

接下来就是英国革命爆发,这主要是因为,查尔斯国王的努力,他施行异教统一制,同时在国内施行更加严厉的政治统治

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Those explosions were thought to be an attempt by local al-Qaida forces to destabilize the country before parliamentary elections last month.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

Now, this particular simile conjures for us an image of someone trying to get a fix on Satan's shield, and there's the suggestion here of an attempt to get a proper perspective on this huge character, Satan.

这个特别的比喻如同戏法般,像我们展示了一个想要对撒旦的屏障有所一瞥的形象，这里有找出对这个重要的人物，撒旦,的一个合理的观点的暗示。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Both American Airlines and Delta have offered significant financial support in an attempt to woo the company into an alliance.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Plato's dialogues, the Apology as well as the Republic and the Crito are in the broadest sense of the term, an attempt not only to answer the charge against Aristophanes but also defend the cause of philosophy as something of value and merit.

柏拉图的语录《苏格拉底自辩篇》,《理想国》和《克里托篇》,以最广泛的解释看来，不仅试图响应,亚里斯多芬尼斯的控诉,同时还捍卫着,哲学的目标是价值与功绩。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So here's my attempt to make the question both a bit more precise, and a question that's an open question.

我正尝试,让这两个问题变得更准确,这是个开放性的问题

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选