an abortive attempt
基本解释
- 事败垂成
英汉例句
- Early on they realized the need for foreign technology, after an abortive attempt during the "Eighth Five Year Plan" from 1991-1995.
早先在1991-1995的第八个五年计划中他们的尝试失败了,然后就意识到需要国外技术。
blog.sina.com.cn - Cyprus has been divided since July 1974, when Turkey invaded after a Greek-backed coup that led to an abortive attempt at enosis (union with Greece).
1974年7月土耳其的入侵使一个希腊支持的旨在促使塞浦路斯合并的政变徒劳无功,此后塞浦路斯陷入了分裂。 - The Yemeni branch is better known in the West for one of its leaders, Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-Yemeni cleric involved in an abortive attempt to blow up an aircraft over Detroit in 2009.
基地的也门分支在西方为人所知更多是因为其中一个头目Anwar al-Awlaki,一个也门裔美国神职人员,他涉 入了2009年底特律的一桩飞机爆炸未遂案。 - Last year, it made an abortive attempt to rescue Telecom Italia, Italy's former monopolist, from the clutches of Olivetti.
ECONOMIST: The world beyond Deutsche Telekom - In early 1998, as more bombs were found, and after an abortive attempt to filter out the ammunition, the navy abandoned the beach-replenishment project, dumping the sand into the sea instead.
ECONOMIST: California’s beaches: Out to sea The