Attempt

Definition

attempt /ǝ'tempt/ v ႀကိဳးပမ္းသည္။ ႀကံစည္အားထုတ္သည္။ The prisoners attempted an escape, but failed. ❍ All candidates must attempt Questions 1-5. ❍ He admitted attempting to smuggle cannabis. n ၁။ ~ (to do sth/ at doing sth) ႀကိဳးပမ္းမႈ။ ႀကံစည္ အားထုတ္မႈ။ a rescue/ a coup/ an assassination attempt ❍ desperate/ vain/ abortive attempts ❍ They made no attempt to escape. ❍ My early attempts at learning to drive were unsuccessful. ❍ Farmers are certain to resist any attempt to reduce subsidies. ၂။ ~ (at sth) ေရွးဦး စမ္းသပ္လုပ္ကိုင္ေသာ လက္ရာ။ My first attempt at a chocolate cake tasted horrible. ၃။ ~ (on sth) စံခ်ိန္ ခ်ဳိးရန္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းအားထုတ္မႈ။ the latest attempt on the world land speed record. ၄။ ~ on sth လုပ္ႀကံရန္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းျခင္း။ အသက္ကို ႀကံစည္ျခင္း။ They have made an attempt on her life. ❏ attempted adj အထမေျမာက္ေသာ (ႀကံစည္မႈ)။ an attempted cover-up ❍ The police have charged the man with attempted murder/rape.

Examples

1. One last desperate attempt
2. The government has made no attempt to avert the crisis.
3. [attempt on] : An attempt on the world record
4. [attempt at] : It’s his fourth attempt at flying a balloon around the world solo.
5. [an attempt to do something] : Their spokesperson has rejected all our attempts to talk to him.
6. A burglary/robbery/escape/kidnap attempt
7. An assassination/murder/suicide attempt
8. [an attempt on someone’s life] : An unsuccessful attempt on the President’s life