It can mean both to attempt to convince, and to succeed in convincing.

它既有试图说服之意也有成功说服之意。

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Habit will render faults which we have been accustomed to regard from youth, beautiful. In vain will a stranger attempt to convince us that we are in error.

习惯会使我们从小看惯了的缺陷变成美好的事情，外地人欲使我们承认自己犯错只会枉费心思。

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In the end, we got us a fairly simple case of Tomsha-Miguel writing a phony-baloney letter from a make-believe congressional aide to herself, and then sending this fantasy correspondence to her unsuspecting client in a oddball attempt to convince him that she had resolved the IRS problem.

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He reached out to free-agent outfielder Michael Bourn on behalf of the team this off-season in an attempt to convince him to sign with the Mets.

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Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa's unprecedented visit to Gaza this week should be seen as a last ditch attempt by Egypt to convince Hamas to unify its ranks with Fatah.

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