Attempting

例句/造句/用法:

• Here, again, he disarmed me by not attempting to defend himself. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I am attempting to suggest some of the essentials of a statesman's equipment for the work of a humanly centered politics. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• In attempting to prove that the soul has three separate faculties, Plato takes occasion to discuss what makes difference of faculties. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
• There's no use attempting the impossible. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
• I think either of these methods is preferable to attempting to carry ensilage in baskets any distance. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
• Elizabeth made no answer; and without attempting to persuade her ladyship to return into the house, walked quietly into it herself. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
• The army it had to fight was the protection to the capital of a people which was attempting to found a nation upon the territory of the United States. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• She appeared to be cross-questioning me, attempting to draw from me information unawares. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
• At nine the next morning I rang my bell, being quite worn out with attempting it. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
• Here the whole army concentrated before attempting to cross. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• There was a cow-dung in the path, and I must need try my activity by attempting to leap over it. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
• And then she told him all--told him the truth word by word, without attempting to shield herself or condone her error. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Elinor perceived with alarm that she was not quite herself, and, while attempting to soothe her, eagerly felt her pulse. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
• Just as forlorn and stupefied as I was when my husband's spirit flew away I have sat ever since--never attempting to mend matters at all. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• Tolerable sport the first three days, but there has been no attempting anything since. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
• It's perfectly useless, my Lord, attempting to get at any evidence through the impenetrable stupidity of this witness. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
• He had deposed and murdered his father Chosroes II, and he was attempting to reorganize the Persian military forces. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• Attempting once to scold her in public, Rebecca hit upon the before-mentioned plan of answering her in French, which quite routed the old woman. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• It was as though she were attempting to read my inmost soul, to judge my character and my standards of chivalry in that long-drawn, searching gaze. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
• At the same time, I suspect him of merely attempting to frighten you, by threatening what he cannot really do. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• For it is Theodore Roosevelt who is actually attempting to make himself and his admirers the heroes of a new social myth. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• St. John called me to his side to read; in attempting to do this my voice failed me: words were lost in sobs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
• Well, that did not prevent them from attempting to shoot him in his own house. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
• We should not approach his meaning more nearly by attempting to define it further. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
• Then it became evident to Xerxes, watching the combat, that his fleet was attempting flight. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• And as to laughter, we will not expose ourselves, if you please, by attempting to laugh without a subject. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
• It was doubtless from some sad experience in ignorantly attempting to put fetters on it. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• Perhaps even now she was attempting to defend herself against some savage man or beast. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• They were attempting about this time to raise it still further, to twelve and a-half per cent. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• Ridicule was heaped upon him in the public prints, and mathematics were called into service by learned men to settle the point forever that he was attempting the utterly impossible. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.

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