But there was no milk to catch. All Mike Henry got was tired hands from his attempts to milk her.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

Milton devotes a lot of time in Areopagitica to making a number of attempts to distinguish licensing from censorship.

弥尔顿在《论出版自由》中花了很大功夫,试图区分出版许可管理和出版控制。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So hermeneutics will be our first topic, and it attempts to answer the last question that I've mentioned which is raised by theory of literature.

所以诠释学，是我们的第一个话题,它试图回答的是我在探讨文学理论时提出的最后一个问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He attempts the dangerous plot just three days before she is to be sent to a high-security prison.

VOA: special.2010.12.13

So you have a wind god who is identified with Satan destroying Pharaoh, who is also identified with Satan, just as he attempts to destroy God's faithful.

因为我们看到一个视为和撒旦一体的风神摧毁着，同样也被视为和撒旦相同的暴君，就像他企图摧毁上帝的威信一般。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He said attempts to do this violated earlier agreements to limit slavery to areas where it already existed.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

And so, he attempts to defend this position, justify it to his disciples who are worried that it may not be true.

所以,他试图捍卫他的观点,并试图说服,那些怀疑这一点的学生们

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But Johnson refused to stand aside in the face of radical attempts to seize all powers of government.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Now, since we're being nerdy in this class, despite our attempts to go dating, we're being nerdy, let's actually be a little bit careful.

现在的内容的确有点枯燥,尽管我们有对约会的美好追求,但我们还是严谨一点好啊

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

A nineteen ninety-three movie called "Tombstone" is one of the most recent attempts to tell this story.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

He represents them as overheated attempts at literature, as dripping with a kind of excess, romantic excess, as essentially unable to do more than repeat a tradition.

他将这些炙热的情感放到文学里，流露出过度的浪漫，重复传统，无法超越。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Ethan Holtzman says his band attempts to shine a light on this fact to help make sure such a situation never happens again.

VOA: special.2011.05.06

So, hunger sets in and it becomes extremely sad and tragic, and attempts to break out simply don't work; but, it had its light moments, and I can never resist those.

饥饿来临,一切都变得如此悲惨,而尝试逃跑只是徒劳,但这其中也有些趣事发生,我对这些逸事总是没抵抗力

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

But her editors often rejected her attempts to write about subjects outside the traditional interests of women.

VOA: special.2009.10.18

By our informal count, however, we and the Afghan commandoes we work with were stopped on 70 percent of our attempts because we could not achieve the requisite 11 approvals in time.

粗略估算了一下，与我们一道工作的阿富汗突击队,有70%的尝试都失败了,因为我们不能按时拿到所需的11个批准。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Those first attempts at demanding a "tax" of foreign ships evolved into highly organized hijacking operations.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

The history of the military in the United States and other countries includes a lot of attempts to get animals like pigeons or dolphins to do interesting and deadly things through various training.

各国在其军事史中,都有试图通过训练鸽子海豚等动物,去完成各种高难而致命任务的尝试。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The success of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay led to many new attempts on the mountain.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

The optimistic thing is I think that we have a very good Fed chairman and we have coordinated efforts by central banks around the world and we're doing things that are attempts to prevent the collapse of the financial institutions.

积极的方面在于,我认为我们有一个很优秀的美联储主席,并且我们有世界各地的中央银行,协调的努力,而且我们正做着试图,阻止金融机构崩溃的事情。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

When this happens, the heart attempts to fix the situation by beating harder and faster.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

So, what you might say is a Socratic citizen to do, he will either be accused of being ironic and not be believed or he will simply be disbelieved if he attempts to defend himself on rational or philosophical grounds.

你可能会说，一位苏格拉底时代公民被指控的原因,可能是嘲讽和不被相信,或根本就不被信任,如果他试图,从理性或达观的立场来捍卫自己。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

For years, Congressmen from Missouri had defeated all attempts to make Nebraska an official territory.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

But also you'd think that if there was a group of people that really had been attending the calories it would be this group, because very few people who come in for weight loss are doing it for the first time, so almost everybody has been on lots of different dietary attempts and somewhere along the line they've been doing calories.

想一想,如果世界上还有一群人,真正关注卡路里的话,那就是肥胖人群,因为那些参加减肥项目的人中,很少有人是第一次参加,几乎人人都进行过多次不同的饮食控制,他们也尝试过计算卡路里减肥

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

It threatens the economy and invites dishonest attempts to use the money for private interests.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

And so Chudleigh attempts to demonstrate - and this is the passage at the top of the handout - Chudleigh attempts to demonstrate that the Genesis story of Adam and Eve establishes no such thing.

因此恰德莱试图说明,-这是讲义中最上面的一段,-恰德莱试图说明,上帝创造亚当夏娃的故事并不能证明性别地位一说。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Two more attempts to kill the Earp brothers took place after the famous fight.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

Comus attempts to seduce the Lady, you'll remember, with something like an economic theory of natural beauty.

你们还记得吧，科玛斯试图色诱那位女士，用一套有利可图的自然美的理论。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

A hypnotist attempts to get the boy to a mental state where he can discuss what he saw so that police can learn more about the attacker.

VOA: special.2011.07.13

What the argument attempts to show is that this mind must be something separate from my body.

这个论证尝试证明的就是,这个心灵肯定和我的身体是不同的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The lady's refusal to drink of Comus' cup was just the first of Milton's attempts to bring the action of ingestion to the very center of a literary work.

拒绝司酒宴之神的杯子的女士,是弥尔顿第一次尝试把摄取食物的行动,注入到文学作品的中心去。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选