attempt to do something

常见例句

Wisconsin pioneered welfare reform in the 1990s—arguably the last serious attempt to do something about America's straggling government.
威斯康星州在上世纪90年代曾倡导福利改革——这是有据可查的认真尝试去改变美国政府零乱无序状态的最后一次改革。
For example, I could define an Array and then inadvertently attempt to do something numeric with it, or even some String concatenation, shown in Listing 7
例如，先定义 Array 然后无意中尝试用于进行一些数字操作，甚至是一些 String 级联，如清单 7 所示
From the sad reality of losing a cherished object down a sink or bathtub drain comes this idiom, meaning to do or attempt to do something that ultimately will be lost forever.
从在水池或浴缸里痛失珍贵物品的经验中衍生出了这一个细雨，意思是你尽全力去做某事，最后却是失败。

He is making an attempt to do something about it.
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Smith Barney did attempt to do something about this.
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