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trying

/trahy-ing/US // ˈtraɪ ɪŋ //UK // (ˈtraɪɪŋ) //

试图,尽力而为,试试,尽力

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : extremely annoying, difficult, or the like; straining one's patience and goodwill to the limit: a trying day; a trying experience.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.difficult, bothersome

Examples

  • Compounding that is the overwhelming feeling of exhaustion that many of us feel after such a trying period.

  • It’s going to be an emotionally trying time as they shop for loved ones who cannot be in the same place with them.

  • Between 25 and 30, you’re trying to decide how much longer before you start growing a beard and calling yourself ‘Daddy.

  • Perhaps on his own nowadays, Epstein is trying his best to webmaster over a dozen URLs.

  • He has wild swings between trying not to care about Lana and the baby, and being completely obsessed by it.

  • I think if you keep trying to do things the same way it becomes diminishing returns.

  • All of my stories are about people trying hard not to grow up.

  • Mrs. Jolly Robin had often wished—when she was trying to feed a rapidly-growing family—that she could hunt forp.

  • Alone Orlean lay trying vainly to forget something—something that stood like a spectre before her eyes.

  • It may be fifty or a hundred centuries since men, although they were fully grown up, still went on trying to learn.

  • Such throats are trying, are they not?In case one catches cold; Ah, yes!

  • I shipped for a voyage to Japan and China, and spent several more years trying to penetrate the forbidden fastnesses of Tibet.