| 词组 | attempt |
| 释义 | attempt 1. The noun attempt, Bernstein 1965 tells us, takes at. It does, but it takes other prepositions too. Here we have at: • ... the first attempt at a broad outline —Times Literary Supp., 9 Apr. 1970 • ... inspired him to make his first attempts at writing —Current Biography, November 1967 • This figure swung a silver tray in an attempt at careless grace —Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim, 1954 On is the usual preposition when attempt means "an attempt to kill"; it is also used in other contexts. • ... the Orsini attempt on the life of Napoleon III — Times Literary Supp., 18 Apr. 1968 • ... believe the state to be so constituted that attempts on its authority are not easily justified — Michael Walzer, Dissent, September-October 1969 • Before we could make an attempt on the summit — Sir John Hunt & Sir Edmund Hillary, Geographical Jour., December 1953 Against and upon are also used: • ... assassination attempt against President Ford — radio newscast, 22 Sept. 1975 • ... any attempt ... against the integrity ... of the territory —Vera Micheles Dean, The Four Cornerstones of Peace, 1946 • ... the four attempts upon Mussolini's life —Times Literary Supp., 3 Apr. 1969 A very common construction is to and the infinitive: • ... plunged into the water in an attempt to escape — Current Biography, July 1965 • ... to record with special sympathy the attempts of others to deal with like situations —Alice P. Kenney, New-England Galaxy, Fall 1970 • ... any attempt to offer evidence in the place of conjecture is welcome —Times Literary Supp., 26 Mar. 1970 2. Zinsser 1976 lists attempt—apparently the verb—as a "long word that is no better than the short word"—in this case, try. Many good writers have found attempt adequate: • ... to attempt a broad reconciliation of the diverging views in the church —Tad Szulc, N. Y. Times Mag., 27 May 1979 • It is best never to attempt to joke —Ernest Hemingway, "Miss Mary's Lion," 1956 • Why he attempted it at all is an insoluble puzzle — T. S. Eliot, "Hamlet and His Problems," in Selected Essays, 1932 • I attempt no chronicle —Hilaire Belloc, Richelieu, 1930 • Some man was talking to him in a low voice and attempting, from time to time, to lay a hand on his shoulder —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925 |
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