The report said the residents were attempting to do as much work in the shorter time as they had done while working more hours.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

And in Strauss in attempting to do this will use the orchestra to depict here in this particular case perhaps the rise of human power, maybe as metaphorically represented by the sun, so here is Strauss depicting the rise of the sun.

施特劳斯试着用管弦乐,以特别的方式表现人类力量的崛起,用太阳隐喻人类的力量,所以在这里施特劳斯表现了,太阳的升起

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

We are, in other words, attempting to grasp it in a sentence that might read something like, "What the author means to say is--" Right?

换言之，我们在尝试着在这样一句话中掌握它，作者想说的是--，是吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The president is now attempting to regain the political momentum in the health care debate by trying to reassure the public.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

This is the first time we have in Christianity someone attempting to say,"This is the authoritative list.

这是基督教里面第一次有人说,“这些是权威书目。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Civil war cut the nation in half in 2002, after rebels attempting to overthrow President Gbagbo took control of the northern part of the country.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

He controls no real estate. He's been banished, yet he is clearly attempting to conquer, comparing himself to Columbus, to conquer in large part through the transformation of our understanding of good and evil, of virtue and vice.

没有不动产，且已被流放，但他明显地试图克服，并将自己和哥伦布相比，他想要克服大部份的人,透过转变,我们对善恶,美德与邪恶的了解。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Somalia's new president,Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, a moderate Islamist and a former insurgent leader, is attempting to establish government control in the country and to gain the support of Islamist insurgents.

VOA: standard.2009.03.16

Then it looks like there came a moment where there was a final blow, where whatever was attempting to overthrow these cities and this civilization succeeded, but it was not the same in every place.

接着,看起来最后一击的时刻来临了,颠覆这些城市和这个文明的企图,最终还是成功了,这在各地情况都不尽相同

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So yes,while we have national AIDS programs, while countries are attempting to draw up their national strategies, coverage,in terms of treatment, voluntary counseling and testing and even prevention, is very,very poor.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

Metaphor is the bringing together in a statement of identity of the discourse that's attempting to articulate itself.

比喻就是表述,试图自我阐明交谈特点的过程。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Chair of the Political Science Department at the American University in Cairo Walid Kazziha says that it is likely that Mr.Netanyahu will be attempting to get Mr.Mubarak to ease pressure on Israeli settlement issue.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

What it means is that in understanding a text, we are attempting to grasp it in paraphrase.

它是说，在理解文章时，我们在试着给它释义，并掌握它。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"There are,of course,some in Washington who are attempting to draw old battle lines and playing the usual political games, pulling a few comments out of context to paint a distorted picture of Judge Sotomayor's record,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

It's a question rather of how we know the author to be there, firstly, and secondly, whether or not in attempting we should appeal to the authority of an author.

首先我们如何知道作者在那儿，其次，决定文本意义的时候,如果作者只是一种功能。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In 2007,expenditures on health care totaled about one-sixth of the entire U.S.economy, and even top congressional leaders acknowledge that attempting to rein in health-care costs while at the same time expanding health-insurance coverage is a daunting task.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

In the poem that we looked at last time that was the poem Ad Patrem that Milton had addressed to his father Milton was attempting, as you remember, to justify to his father his own interest in becoming a poet.

上节课我们读的诗《Ad，Patrem》,是弥尔顿写给他父亲的,正如你们所记得的，弥尔顿正尝试着向父亲证明自己成为诗人的潜力。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The International Monetary Fund last week released the second payment of a controversial The United States, which has the largest voting share on the IMF's executive board, was seen as attempting to delay the huge loan to pressure Sri Lanka to address human rights issues in the country.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Director Roxana Silbert, "What's great about what we're doing is it allows them to come to it in their own terms and of course the thing that young people find most alienating about Shakespeare is the language, which feels like a different language to them and this isn't in anyway attempting to copy Shakespeare's language - it's written by young people in a language they would use."

VOA: standard.2010.05.07