1·The couple made an unsuccessful attempt at a compromise.
这对夫妇试图和解但未成功。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·He was discouraged by the unsuccessful attempt.
这次不成功的尝试使他气馁。
3·Not since the Court's unsuccessful attempt to block the New Deal has the Court struck down a statute on this basis.
由于法院成功地执行了新政，它才在这一基础上破了法令的例。
4·Each year my heart breaks when parents call the office to find out what their children did wrong in an unsuccessful attempt for admission.
每年当家长打电话到招生办询问他们的孩子做错了什么导致申请失败时，我的心都要碎了。
5·Even an unsuccessful attempt gives you valuable knowledge and experience, and vastly increases the likelihood of success on the next attempt.
甚至是一次不成功的尝试都给你了宝贵的知识和经验，并且广泛地提升了下次尝试成功的希望。
6·On the weekend, they mixed sawdust and newspapers with polymers and cement in an unsuccessful attempt to seal a crack in a concrete pit at reactor No 2.
周末的时候，他们尝试着将木屑和报纸与水泥混合堵住第二核电站的泄露小洞，但失败了。
7·Landon had made an unsuccessful attempt at the recitation, and the doctor , somewhat nettled, said:Landon, you don't seem to be getting on very fast in this subject.
兰德勒在背诵课文时表现的很糟糕，于是，他的导师有些生气的对他说：兰德勒，看来这个科目你掌握得很慢。
8·After an unsuccessful attempt to build a database of "future founders" on its own, the firm teamed up with Mattermark, the deal intelligence company founded by Danielle Morrill.
该基金曾尝试独自建立“未来创始人”数据库，但以失败告终，因此，它决定与丹尼尔·莫里尔创建的交易情报公司Mattermark合作。
9·The forehead-slap of hindsight, the woeful fuel of country ballads, the self-recrimination I feel for eating a quart of pudding in a crafty but unsuccessful attempt to avoid writing this column.
后见之明给脑门一巴掌，乡村民谣中悲伤材料、为了狡猾地避免写专栏文章而吃掉了一夸脱布丁后感到的自责。
10·He has been unsuccessful in his attempt to win a seat on the board of the company.
他在该公司董事会谋得一席之地的企图未能成功。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》