unsuccessfully

基本解释

And why would you want to do what everyone else is (unsuccessfully) doing anyway, no matter what time of year?
而且为什么不管是不是新年，你都要做周围大多数人都在做（虽然不成功）的事情呢？
An hour later, my midwife tried unsuccessfully to coax me out of the tub. Shortly after that, I felt the urge to push.
一个小时之后，我的助产士试着把我从浴盆里哄出来，但没有成功。一会儿之后，我感觉到很大的推压力。
Remember that time when someone in your company unsuccessfully used an Agile gardening methodology, and then went around saying that it was horse shit that doesn't work?
忘了那次你公司里的人使用敏捷园艺方法以失败告终后就到处说这方式就是一无是处的马粪么？

Microsoft,in its struggle against Google, tried unsuccessfully last year to buy Yahoo for more than forty billion dollars.
Police say they want to talk to the doctor, who was with Jackson when he fell ill and unsuccessfully tried to resuscitate him.
Taylor's previous brush with Grammy fame came in 2008, when she unsuccessfully competed for Best New Artist.

Last year it tried unsuccessfully to sell its mortgage division to reduce earnings volatility.
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