If you ever tried to walk on a fallen tree log, you understand what the expression means.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

It's based on the ancient form of Japanese poetry, which is something that I had never tried myself.

这些诗是根据日本古代诗歌形式创作的，我自己都从没试过。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Mussorgsky sat down and tried to come up with, create a musical response to each of these paintings that were on display.

穆索尔斯基坐下来,寻找灵感,想创作一首音乐作品来呼应这些,展览出的画作

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

So they have tried to explain their findings on a Harvard Web site.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

But with the revolution of democracy in Athens, which also spread then to other Greek cities, partly because Athens did what George Bush tried to do in Iraq, they tried to force democracy on other Greek cities around the Eastern Mediterranean also.

但随着雅典民主革命的进行，这场革命随后传到了其他希腊城市，原因之一，类似小布什在伊拉克的计划，雅典企图把民主制度,推行到地中海东部的其他希腊城市。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

And he declared war on the southern states that tried to leave.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

5 I then tried it on 0.25 One quarter.

然后我试试0。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"I was raised on a small farm in southern Indiana and Dad tried to teach me and my brothers that you should never try to be better than someone else.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

When it comes to humans, the notions of reward and punishment and so on that Skinner tried to extend to humans are so vague it's not science anymore.

说到人类，那些斯金纳试图应用于人类身上的,奖励和惩罚之类的概念,定义太过模糊,所以不能再当做科学来看待。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He tried the invention on Millie.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

I went to the Bank of Mexico; I tried to convince the-- I met the president of the Bank of Mexico and tried to tell them that Mexico is too reliant on oil, too much oil--they have to get rid of their risk.

我去了墨西哥银行，我试图说服-,我与墨西哥银行的行长见了面,试图告诉他们墨西哥过于依赖石油了，过多的石油。。。他们得设法摆脱石油风险。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Asked whether the United States has tried to exert pressure on Pakistan's government to reinstate former chief justice Chaudhry,Wood said.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

So as I tried to say on the board, we can have n equals 1, 1/2 but since we can't have n equals 1/2, we actually can't have a binding energy that's anywhere in between these levels that are indicated here. And that's a really important point for something that comes out of solving the Schrodinger equation is this quantization of energy levels.

我在这要说的是，我们可以让n等于，但不能让n等于,我们不能得到在这些标出来的,能级之间的结合能，能级的量子化,是从解薛定谔方程中,得到的很重要的一点。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

I tried that out on my parents.Not even close. Guys, I'm going to the prom with Eric.

VOA: standard.other

I tried to find it on Google really quick and nothing came up, but I think there is this idea of how you organize a tapestry in that fashion.

我试图在谷歌上查找但是没有结果,但是我想有这么个想法,就是怎么用那种方式编织挂毯

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Across Beijing, residents tried to carry on with their lives, despite the parade's extensive disruptions to traffic.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

All right. I tried it on 2, I surely didn't expect a precise and exact answer to that but I got something, and if you square this, you'll find the answer kept pretty darn close to 2.

好，我试试求2的平方根,我当然不希望得到一个完全准确的答案了,但是我得到了一个近似值，试试将这个数平方一下,你会发现结果和2相当接近。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Another,William Kennedy Smith, was tried and acquitted on rape charges, with the senator called to testify.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

The mediocre person answers only 30% of the questions correctly admits that he has only average grades he worked on the yearbook as a proofreader and he tried out for the track team but didn't make it.

后者回答正确30%的问题,坦白学习成绩一般,给年刊做校对,尝试参加校田径运动队，但没成功。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"He was a guy who tried to get people to work on their own behalf, to get things done and to try to have everybody contribute,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian student with alleged links to al-Qaida, tried to detonate explosives just before a U.S.jetliner landed in Detroit on a trip from Amsterdam Friday.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

On the program, Griffin tried to distance himself from that stance.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

And today's transition is further proof that those who have tried to pull Iraq into the abyss of disunion and civil war are on the wrong side of history,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

He's also friendlier on the track than many of the past champions think American Carl Lewis and Canadian Ben Johnson, who tried to intimidate opponents with their dagger-like glares.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

Kasab,a Pakistani citizen, on July 20 made a surprise confession in court to some of the charges, and tried to get the judge to stop the trial and announce a verdict.

VOA: standard.2009.08.07

Since the 2002 bombings on Bali, in which more than 200 people died, the Indonesian government has arrested and tried scores of suspected terrorists, most of them affiliated with Jemaah Islamiyah.

VOA: standard.2010.03.24

And that war is against the kind of terrorism that authorities say a Nigerian man attempted when he allegedly tried to bomb a US airliner bound for Detroit on Christmas Day.

VOA: standard.2010.01.19

He served as prime minister during a rocky nine months in 2008, before being forced out of office over allegations that his aids tried to influence a court ruling on a banking sale.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

In February,in what was seen as one of the most brutal attacks on Roma, police said Robert Csorba and his five-year-old son were shot dead when they tried to flee their home that was set on fire.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

"We reacted very quickly and tried to prevent these characters from boarding on to the ship, but unfortunately by the time we reacted, some of them had already succeeded and accessed the ship and had even managed to reach the cabin crew area,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.26