attempt to do something

基本解釋

Wisconsin pioneered welfare reform in the 1990s—arguably the last serious attempt to do something about America's straggling government.
威斯康星州在上世紀(jì)90年代曾倡導(dǎo)福利改革——這是有據(jù)可查的認(rèn)真嘗試去改變美國政府零亂無序狀態(tài)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，先定義 Array 然后無意中嘗試用于進行一些數(shù)字操作，甚至是一些 String 級聯(lián)，如清單 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.
從在水池或浴缸里痛失珍貴物品的經(jīng)驗中衍生出了這一個細雨，意思是你盡全力去做某事，最后卻是失敗。

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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