尽最大的努力

I tried best to regain my composure.

我尽了最大的努力恢复镇静。

I try my best to cool down.

我尽了最大的努力恢复镇静。

Try / do one's best to do sth.

尽某人最大的努力做某事

I've always made a total effort, even whenthe odds seemed entirely against me.

我始终尽我最大的努力，即使机遇最终没有眷顾我。

I'm doing my best to fill in.

我在尽我最大的努力。

After the death of the Marquis, he had told Gabelle to do his best for the people. But now Gabelle was in prison, just because he was employed by a nobleman.

侯爵死后，他就告诉过加贝尔要尽自己最大的努力去帮助人民，但是现在加贝尔进了监狱，仅仅因为他受雇于一个贵族。

We all try our best to get ready for the exam.

我们都在尽我们最大的努力准备考试。

I do my best to go to work.

我也尽我最大的努力去工作。

I'm not very good at hacking but i'll give it my best shot.

我不擅长安装，但我会尽我最大的努力

There's no half measure in doing things. You do it well or at least you've got to give it your best shot.

做事不能折衷主义，你要把它做好，或者至少你要尽自己最大的努力。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。