英语词汇“try”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	try
释义	try I. \ˈtrī\ verb (tried ; tried ; trying ; tries) Etymology: Middle English trien, from Anglo-French trier, from Old French, to pick out, sift *transitive verb* 1. a. : to examine or investigate judicially : examine by witnesses or other judicial evidence and the principle of law < no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law — U.S. Constitution > < the paucity of women on the superior bench is a serious shortcoming in trying these cases — Current Biography > b. (1) : to conduct the trial of < they arrested him and he was tried before a Federal jury — American Guide Series: Maryland > (2) : to participate as lawyer or counsel in the judicial examination of < any lawyer who has ever tried a real case — A.T.Vanderbilt > 2. a. : to put to test by experiment, investigation, or trial (as for determining strength, endurance, worth, accuracy, truth, or utility) < taught school, practiced law, tried mining — American Guide Series: Oregon > < put his shoulder to the door, then he tried the shutters — Elsie Singmaster > < some other apparently inaccessible peak on which to try their ardor and endurance — S.P.B.Mais > < trying their luck casting plugs into the surf — R.M.Hodesh > — often used with out < tried out several occupations — Bernard Kalb > < tried out various hypotheses as to the nature of heat — S.F.Mason > < try out a play on the road > b. : to test to the limit or breaking point : subject to extreme trial (as of severe or continuous strain or extreme or undue hardship, provocation, or affliction) < don't work too hard, darling, or try your eyes — Elizabeth Taylor > < here is a tale that will try your credulity — O.S.J.Gogarty > < enough to try the patience of a saint — Alban Baer > c. : to demonstrate, discover, or settle by a test or trial < hath still been tried a holy man — Shakespeare > < ready to try the question with his fists — George Meredith > 3. a. obsolete : purify, refine < silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times — Ps 12:6 (Authorized Version) > b. : to melt down (as oil, tallow, or lard) and procure in a pure state : render — often used with out < try out whale oil from the blubber > < try out chicken fat for cracklings > 4. obsolete : to know by experience : experience 5. : to fit or finish with accuracy — usually used with up < the steel square … is used … for laying out and trying up right angles — G.A.McGarvey & H.H.Sherman > 6. : to attempt through the exertion of effort, labor, or thought < tries to stop short at irony — A.M.Mizener > < tried to demonstrate the existence of a real language of science — T.H.Savory > < try to swim a mile > : make an effort for the purpose of < tried walking without a crutch > 7. : tease 5 *intransitive verb* 1. of a ship : to lie in a gale head to the wind under very little canvas 2. : to make an attempt to achieve something or to carry out some action < the girls will always be trying harder — Management Behavior & Foreman Attitude > < an adolescent urge to try for a good-night kiss — Lane Kauffmann > — often used with and and a following verb < a sad mistake to try and swim against the stream — George Santayana > < must therefore try and carry them with us on policy — Hugh Gaitskell > Synonyms: attempt, essay, endeavor, strive, struggle: try is a simple word without much suggestive power; it may be used in reference to an attempt undertaken experimentally, tentatively, or uncertainly, or to an attempt ending in failure < freedom in thought, the liberty to try and err — H.L.Mencken > < tried to have me assassinated three times — W.M.Thackeray > attempt is almost always synonymous with try but may occasionally be preferred in references to ventures of greater magnitude < Father … do Thou finish above what I on earth have attempted — Thomas De Quincey > < here Shakespeare tackled a problem which proved too much for him. Why he attempted it at all is an insoluble puzzle — T.S.Eliot > essay, a rather formal term, may connote a preliminary canvassing or first beginning of a venture or its large and comprehensive nature < the sculpture which attempted to unite repose and action … in a way which Phidias and Donatello were too prudent to essay — W.C.Brownell > < it is that continuity of evolution … that I have essayed to describe — J.L.Lowes > endeavor may accentuate greater exertion, repeated effort, or continued search for expedients < no art endeavors to express the emotions of the artist — Samuel Alexander > < the first step for every aspirant to culture is to endeavor to see things as they are — C.W.Eliot > < the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavored to form — Mary W. Shelley > strive heightens notions of persistent, vigorous exertion to overcome opposition or hindrance < her visitor, who held herself rigidly erect, and strived to mask her nervousness — G.B.Shaw > < was striving to come out of the filth, the flies, the poverty, the fishy smells — Sherwood Anderson > < loved his country deeply, and strove to serve her by lifting contemporary disputes into a larger air — John Buchan > struggle implies continuing violent or strenuous exertion < heroes fallen or struggling to advance — William Wordsworth > Synonym: see in addition afflict, prove. • - try conclusions - try one's hand II. noun (-es) 1. obsolete : trial, test 2. : an attempt especially when undertaken with little hope of success, as one of a series, or when ending in failure < an agreement … is not impossible, and they at least want to make a good try at it — Mark Gayn > < would go down in history as a nice try — R.M.Yoder > < hurled the cannonball farthest on the thirteenth through fifteenth tries — Current Biography > 3. a. : a play in rugby in which a player grounds the ball on or behind the opponent's goal line and which scores usually four points and entitles the scoring side to try for a place-kick at the goal b. : try for point
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