make an attempt to do

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C. make an attempt to do sth.
爲固定短語，意爲“嘗試做某事”。
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It is hard to squeeze the variety of addresses into any set schema, but if you don't make an attempt to do so you lose all hope of making sense of real-life addresses.
很難把各種不同的地址歸納進一定的模式，但不嘗試這樣做又毫無希望表達現(xiàn)實生活中的地址。
When you make an attempt to change your habits, you feel more comfortable just saying you’re going to do it than actually doing it.
儅你努力改變你的習慣的時候，你會覺得僅是這麼說比真正這麼去做舒服的多。

To be fair, Edlund and Korn were merely building an admittedly grossly simplified model of human behavior in an attempt to answer a nagging question: Why do hookers make so much money?
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