Another way of looking at this is to make an attempt at discovering the authorial intent.

看待这个问题的另一种方法是试着发掘作者的意图。

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Objective: To make an attempt at a new teaching method and style in theory course of clinical pharmacology.

目的：探索临床药理学教学新的方法和形式。

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Objective: To make an attempt at a new teaching method and style in theory course of pharmaceutical analysis.

前言：目的：探索药物分析理论教学新的方法和形式。

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The Obama campaign decided more than a year ago to define Mr. Romney early, on its terms, in an attempt to make the election at least in part a referendum on him and his business record rather than what most re-election campaigns tend to be, which is a referendum on the incumbent.

WSJ: Campaign 2012: Parties Seek Positives in Negative Tone

There are a lot of statistics, figures and charts in the report, yet there is no attempt at an explanation as to why women specifically would make startups more successful.

FORBES: Do Women Make Startups More Successful? If So, How?

However, his party was not satisfied with that promise alone so they have demanded a law, or at least an attempt to pass a law, to make it happen.

BBC: Europe - That Tory row 'made simple'