tries
v. 試圖,努力( try的第三人稱單數 ); 考驗; 磨鍊; 審訊
If you try to do something, you want to do it, and you take action which you hope will help you to do it.
He secretly tried to block her advancement in the Party...
他暗地裡設法阻撓她在黨內的晉升。
Try to make the effort to work your way through all of your tasks one at a time…
爭取努力把你所有的任務一次完成一項。
To try and do something means to try to do it.
He has started a privatisation programme to try and win support from the business community…
他啟動了一套私有化方案,以設法贏得商界的支援。
I must try and see him.
我必須設法見到他。
If you try for something, you make an effort to get it or achieve it.
My partner and I have been trying for a baby for two years...
我和愛人兩年來一直想要個孩子。
He said he was going to try for first place next year.
他說他明年會爭取奪得第一名。
If you try something new or different, you use it, do it, or experience it in order to discover its qualities or effects.
It's best not to try a new recipe for the first time on such an important occasion...
在這麼重要的場合最好不要嘗試以前從未做過的新菜譜。
I've tried everything from herbal cigarettes to chewing gum…
中草藥香菸、口香糖之類的我統統都試過了。
If you try a particular place or person, you go to that place or person because you think that they may be able to provide you with what you want.
Have you tried the local music shops?
你到當地的音像店找過了嗎?
If you try a door or window, you try to open it.
Bob tried the door. To his surprise it opened.
鮑勃試著推了推門。令他吃驚的是,門竟然開了。
When a person is tried, he or she has to appear in a law court and is found innocent or guilty after the judge and jury have heard the evidence. When a legal case is tried, it is considered in a court of law.
He suggested that those responsible should be tried for crimes against humanity...
他建議那些責任人應該以反人類罪受到審判。
Whether he is innocent or guilty is a decision that will be made when the case is tried in court...
他有罪與否,等案件在法庭受審後就會作出判決。
In the game of rugby, a try is the action of scoring by putting the ball down behind the goal line of the opposing team.
The French, who led 21-3 at half time, scored eight tries.
上半場以 21:3 領先的法國隊有 8 個達陣得分。
If you say that something fails but not for want of trying or not for lack of trying, you mean that everything possible was done to make it succeed.
Not all is perfect, but it isn't for want of trying.
一切並非無可挑剔,但已經竭盡全力了。
The French, who led 21-3 at half time, scored eight tries.
上半場以21:3領先的法國隊有8個達陣得分。
The management tries to produce the magazine as cost-effectively as possible.
管理層試圖儘可能地讓雜誌盈利。
The book tries to steer you through the maze of alternative therapies.
本書旨在就各種非傳統療法為您指點迷津。
Mr Wallace tries to co-opt rather than defeat his critics.
華萊士先生竭力拉攏而不是擊敗他的批評者們。
a pub that tries to recreate the flavour of olde England
一家力圖重現古英格蘭風情的酒館