Attempted

例句/造句/用法:

• The tears did not glisten there, as they did in Leinster's; but they fell in torrents as he attempted to take leave of me. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
• I attempted to gain time--nay, I did worse. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Every time I attempted to start, my new horse would commence to kick. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• If anyone says that I attempted to stop your marriage by any but honest means, that person, too, does not speak the truth. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• Gigantic attempted Robbery. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
• The Christians lost Jerusalem again in 1244; it was taken from them very easily by the Sultan of Egypt when they attempted an intrigue against him. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• Something of the same kind was afterwards attempted in morals. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• In what state the affair stood at present between them, Edward knew not, for no communication with any of his family had yet been attempted by him. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
• I rose to take leave of him; and attempted to express the grateful sense of his kindness which I really felt. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• When Parliament refused supplies, he demanded loans from various subjects, and attempted similar illegal exactions. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• Never by word or deed have you attempted to take advantage of my defenceless condition to insult or torture me. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
• To have attempted to dive below her would have put us entirely at her mercy, and precisely where she wanted us. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
• The management beg leave to offer to the public an entertainment surpassing in magnificence any thing that has heretofore been attempted on any stage. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• Happily she never attempted to joke, and this perhaps was the most decisive mark of her cleverness. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• The latter attempted to rush in and break up the formation, but it was like stopping a buzz saw with the bare hand. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
• In the Roman state it was not even attempted. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• The king took a high line, and attempted to disperse the Third Estate by force. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• Mrs. Yeobright attempted to drink, but it was so warm as to give her nausea, and she threw it away. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• I attempted to approach her--I was shocked and grieved, but, it is needless to say, not offended. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• The imitation of the action of horses' hoofs was one of the means attempted, but such additional aids were eventually found to be of no avail, and were discontinued. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
• I have attempted to make my poor friend's loss of memory the means of bettering my acquaintance with you. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• Mrs. Dashwood again assured him that no alteration of the kind should be attempted. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
• As late as 1786 improvements were being attempted in England on this old Gallic machine. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• Once I had a spill in France when I attempted it. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• It was the very house they had attempted to rob. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
• If I had had the least idea of what it contained I should certainly not have attempted to open it. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• And I even attempted, more than once, for my own private satisfaction, to employ his methods in their solution, though with indifferent success. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
• Seven days ago, after her audience with Zat Arras, Dejah Thoris attempted to slip from the palace in the dead of night. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
• The generals in command of the Rhine legions, the Palatine troops, and the eastern armies, each attempted to seize power. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• Notwithstanding the edict of 1766, by which the French king attempted to reduce the rate of interest from five to four per cent. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.

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