The maid tried in vain to put the fragments of the broken vase together.

女仆想把碎花瓶拼起来，可是怎么也拼不好。

16. M: The instructions on the package say that you need to do some assembly yourself. I've spent all afternoon trying in vain to put this bookcase together.

问题16. M: 包装上的说书说你得自己组装。我花了一下午时间也没有把书架组装好。

Smell technology has been tried in the past.

此前，嗅觉技术曾进行过测试。

His companions try to dissuade him from attempting so dangerous a feat, but in vain.

他的同伴们试图劝阻他这个及其危险的行为，但是劝告无果。

Liu has also been a start-up guy since young, trying his hand in a restaurant business before selling laserdisc and CD writers, and only stumbling upon the Internet in 2004.

他从年轻时就开始创业，在卖激光唱片和CD机之前，他曾试着在餐馆里工作，只在2004年时才进入互联网。

Life-saving knowledge took for granted in our modern world is over-unavailable in the underdeveloped regions. And so, in far to many places, people are still essentially trying to cure a spider bite with fire.

救生知识在现代化的世界是理所当然的，不过在经济欠发达地区却是高不可及的。所以，在许许多多地方，人们还是用火来治疗蜘蛛的咬伤。

My wife suggested that I try my hand in painting for children's books.

妻子建议我试着画儿童读物。

And I purposefully haven't read this until now to try and give you a true reading of the book that I read fifteen odd years ago — more than that in fact — and that ended up being a big part of my life.

而我特意到现在才读到这本书，是想给大家一个真实的解读，这本书是我十五年前读到的——其实不止于此——最后成为我生命中重要的组成部分。

Alice quickly took the key and tried it in all the doors, but oh dear!

爱丽丝马上拿起钥匙，试了试所有的门，可是天哪！

We try to give teens the opportunity to read their work in front of a few people, then in front of 200 at our workshop.

我们试着让青少年们有机会在少数人面前朗读他们的作品，接着是在我们研习会的200人面前。

Because everything I tried, in its vacuum-sealed, space-age packaging, all tasted the same.

因为我尝试那么多的真空包装的咖啡味道是一样的。

Try that in New York or Paris.

你可以去纽约或巴黎试着走走看。

A Philadelphia Craftsman even built a foot pedal fan contraption in the 1780s, which founding fathers like George Washington and Ben Franklin tried out in their own homes.

18世纪80年代，费城匠人甚至造出脚踏式风扇，华盛顿、富兰克林等开国元勋都在家试用过。

47. Why did Bill Thomas try something different in the nursing home?

47. 为什么比尔·托马斯在养老院尝试了一些不同的东西？

Let's try two minimal pairs in one sentence.

我们试试一个句子里包含两组最小音差的词。

And I remember we had hair and makeup test at his place in London and we tried silver streaks in my hair.

我还记得我们在他伦敦的住处试妆时，我们试过染几条银色的发丝。

I dare you to try 20 of these in a row nonstop.

你有胆就试着不间断地连做二十下波比操。

I agree. After I watch the Olympics, I always try harder in my own life.

我同意。在我看完奥运会之后，我总是会在自己的生活中更努力。

Sometimes we head out of town and try a new hiking trail in the woods.

有时我们会出城, 尝试在未曾踏足的森林里徒步旅行。

Who doesn't try to game the chatbot in order to speak to an actual human?

为了和真人对话，谁不会试着对聊天机器人扯谎呢？