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As an adjective, trying means difficult in a way that wears you down — it tests your patience and leaves you tired or worried. A trying day is not or dangerous; it is one problem after another until you have no energy left.
As an adjective作為形容詞，trying磨人的 means的意思是 difficult in a way that wears you down令人疲於應付的困難——it tests your patience它考驗你的耐心，and leaves you tired or worried讓你感到疲憊或擔心。A trying day磨人的一天 is not不是 exciting or dangerous刺激或危險的；it is是 one problem after another一個接一個的問題，until直到 you have no energy left你耗盡精力為止。
You will meet it in phrases like a trying time, trying circumstances, a trying journey, and about people: he can be very trying.
You will meet it你會遇到它 in phrases like出現在像 a trying time磨人的時期、trying circumstances艱難的處境、a trying journey磨人的旅程這樣的片語中，and about people也用在人身上：he can be very trying他可以很磨人。
Said about a person, it means they you by being difficult, and it is a gentle, polite way of saying it — a British-sounding, slightly old-fashioned understatement. Saying a child is trying is much softer than calling them a nuisance.
Said about a person說一個人的時候，it means意思是 they annoy you by being difficult他們難搞到讓你不耐煩，and it is而這是 a gentle, polite way of saying it一種委婉客氣的說法——a British-sounding聽起來很英式、slightly old-fashioned有點老派的 understatement輕描淡寫。Saying a child is trying說一個孩子trying than比 calling them a nuisance說他們是麻煩精 is much softer溫和多了。
The word carries a quiet dignity: people often use it about hard periods in life, like illness or loss, when they want to say something was very hard without complaining loudly.
The word carries a quiet dignity這個字帶著一種沉靜的尊嚴：people often use it人們常用它 about hard periods in life來形容人生中的艱難時期，like illness or loss像生病或喪失至親，when they want to say something was very hard當他們想說某件事很辛苦 without complaining loudly卻不想大聲抱怨的時候。
Keep this adjective apart from the ordinary -ing form of the verb try, which just means making an effort — as in "I am trying to open the door". Same spelling, completely different job in the sentence.
Keep this adjective apart from把這個形容詞跟 the ordinary -ing form of the verb try動詞try的一般-ing形式 分開，which just means making an effort那只是表示在努力——as in像 "I am trying to open the door"「我正在努力開門」。Same spelling拼法一樣，completely different job in the sentence在句子裡的作用完全不同。
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
tryingadj/ˈtɹaɪ.ɪŋ/
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Difficult to endure; arduous.
- "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a little trying to do so much typewriting?"
- Troutbeck is a tiny village midway between Penrith and Keswick in a very sparsely populated part of Cumberland, and it used to be said by facetious travellers that the reason why it ever had a station at all was to give the engine a rest after it had struggled up the long and trying incline from Threlkeld.
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Irritating, stressful or bothersome.
tryingnoun/ˈtɹaɪ.ɪŋ/
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human-sciencesphilosophysciencesThe act by which one tries something; an attempt.
- In a variety of places, O'Shaughnessy argues that there is an internal relation between trying and the events that tryings produce. For example, he argues that tryings are not independently specifiable except as would-be causes of physical events.
- When I write with others, the pauses and manyfold attempts to get at an idea mirror the cadence of a conversation or the tryings of finding a word that evades the tongue. That searching is such a beautiful thing.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。