Attempt in spanish
pronunciation: intentoʊ part of speech: noun, verb
attempt1 = intento, tentativa.
Example: Any attempt to organise knowledge must, in order to justify the effort of organisation, have an objective.more:
» assassination attempt = atentado, tentativa de asesinato.
Example: Victim of an apparent assassination attempt, his face was left permanently disfigured and pockmarked.» attempt on + Posesivo + life = intento de asesinato.
Example: His luck ran out the second time around after surviving an attempt on his life last April.» be an attempt at the impossible = intentar lo imposible.
Example: Because of lack of agreement in the public library profession on common objectives, efforts to produce staffing standards were an attempt at the impossible.» botched attempt = intento fallido.
Example: They acted venally and malevolently in a botched attempt to scandalize Prime Minister Rudd and Treasurer Swan on the basis of a fraudulent e-mail.» bungled attempt = intento fallido.
Example: In fact, neither Hitler's bungled attempts nor mad cow disease have anything to do with modern genetic manipulation.» coup attempt = intento de golpe de estado, atentado golpista, intentona golpista, tentativa de golpe de estado.
Example: The question of why some coup attempts fail while others succeed has never been asked, let alone answered.» die in + the attempt = morir en el intento, morir intentándolo.
Example: He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.» failed attempt = intento fallido.
Example: The decision to terminate access to the database, which was started 15 years ago, followed a failed attempt to find a buyer.» failed robbery attempt = intento de robo fallido, intento de atraco fallido.
Example: After a string of failed robbery attempts including a purse snatching that goes terribly wrong, the two inept protagonists turn to gold digging.» fail in + Posesivo + attempt(s) = fracasar en + Posesivo + intento, fracasar en el intento, dar en hueso, pinchar en hueso.
Example: Thus far she's failed in her attempts to amend the constitution, which bars her from standing for president because her children are citizens of another country.» in an attempt to = en un intento de, para, con (el) objeto de, con la finalidad de.
Example: The first treaty of all was designed to pool the coal and steel resources of Europe in an attempt to overcome the devastation of the Second World War and to foster the concept of European unity.» in + Posesivo + attempt to = en + Posesivo + intento de.
Example: Two social workers have failed in their attempt to overturn a ruling that they were fairly sacked.» in the attempt to = con (el) objeto de, con la finalidad de, con el fin de, al intentar + Infinitivo.
Example: In the attempt to match the above criteria, there are two fundamentally distinct avenues to the construction of the schedules of a classification scheme.» last-ditch attempt = último intento, intento desesperado.
Example: With his back against the wall, he might judge that he had little choice but to use his weapons of mass destruction in a last-ditch attempt to save his country.» make + a final attempt = hacer un intento final.
Example: Former Paralympian Oscar Pistorius is making a final attempt to overturn his murder conviction.» make + an attempt = intentar, hacer un intento.
Example: No attempt is made here to provide a full comparative study.» perish in + the attempt = perecer en el intento.
Example: Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.» suicidal attempt = intento suicida, intento de suicidio.
Example: Patients with a violent suicidal attempt have significantly lower cholesterol levels than the control subjects.» suicide attempt = intento de suicidio, intento suicida.
Example: Differences detected include age at evaluation, marital status, age at first psychiatric episode, level of symptomatology, and suicide attempts.attempt2 = intentar.
Example: There is little mnemonic value to the notation, but some literal mnemonics have been attempted, por example, G for Geography, T for Technology.more:
» attempt + the impossible = intentar lo imposible.
Example: He gradually let his original aims slip away until he was attempting the impossible -- a universal bibliography -- albeit highly selectively.» attempt on + Posesivo + life = atentar contra la vida de Alguien.
Example: But it would be interesting to find out why she attempted on her life.