tryとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English trien (“to try a legal case”), from Anglo-Norman trier (“to try a case”), Old French trier (“to choose, pick out または separate from others, sift, cull”), of uncertain origin. Believed to be a metathetic variation of Old French tirer (“to pull out, snatch”), from Gothic ���������� (tiran, “to tear away, remove”), from Proto-Germanic *teraną (“to tear, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to tear, tear apart”), see tear. Related to Occitan triar (“to pick out, choose from among others”). Alternatively or by confluence, the Old French is from Gallo-Roman Vulgar Latin *triare, of unknown origin.

Replaced native Middle English cunnen (“to try”) (from 古期英語 cunnian), Middle English fandien (“to try, prove”) (from 古期英語 fandian), and Middle English costnien (“to try, tempt, test”) (from 古期英語 costnian).

別の表記

• trie (廃れた用法)

動詞

try (三人称単数 現在形 tries, 現在分詞 trying, 過去形および過去分詞形 tried)

1. To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.

   I tried to rollerblade, but I couldn’t.

   I'll come to dinner soon. I'm trying to beat this level first.

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 22, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.

   • 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:

     [Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.

2. (obsolete) To divide; to separate.
   1. To separate (precious metal etc.) from the ore by melting; to purify, refine.
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:

        euery feend his busie paines applide, / To melt the golden metall, ready to be tride.

   2. (one sort from another) To winnow; to sift; to pick out; frequently followed by out.

      to try out the wild corn from the good

      (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Sir T. Elyot to this entry?)

   3. (nautical) To extract oil from blubber or fat; to melt down blubber to obtain oil
   4. To extract wax from a honeycomb
3. To test, to work out.
   1. To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.

      I tried mixing more white paint to get a lighter shade.

   2. To put to test.

      I shall try my skills on this.

      • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:

        The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.

      • 1922, E. F. Benson, Miss Mapp, p. 89:

        “So mousie shall only find tins on the floor now,” thought Miss Mapp. “Mousie shall try his teeth on tins.”

      • 2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:

        Plant breeding is always a numbers game. […] The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better.

   3. (specifically) To test someone's patience.

      You are trying my patience.

      Don't fucking try me.

   4. To taste, sample, etc.

      Try this—you’ll love it.

   5. To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.

      to try weights or measures by a standard;  to try a person's opinions

      • c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:

        Let the end try the man.

   6. (law) To put on trial.

      He was tried and executed.

      • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I:

        The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.

      • 1987, Hadi Khorsandi, trans. Ehssan Javan, “It Didn’t Quite Work Out—2” in The Ayatollah and I:

        I sit in front of the mirror and try myself. I am no impartial judge, otherwise I would have had myself executed several times over by now.

      • 2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

        Sansa pretends to gather everyone in the great hall to try Arya, and at the last moment reveals she’s actually trying Littlefinger for murder and treason, although I think everyone in that room already knew what was going on except him.

4. To experiment, to strive.
   1. To have or gain knowledge of by experience.
      • (Can we date this quote by John Dryden かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

        Try the Libyan heat or Scythian cold.

      (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)

   2. To work on something.

      You are trying too hard.

   3. (obsolete) To do; to fare.

      How do you try! (i.e., how do you do?)

   4. To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.

      to try rival claims by a duel;  to try conclusions

      • 1591, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iii]:

        Left I the court, to see this quarrel tried.

   5. (euphemistic, of a couple) To attempt to conceive a child.
5. (nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
6. To strain; to subject to excessive tests.

   The light tries his eyes.

   Repeated failures try one's patience.

7. (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, used with another verb) To want

   I am really not trying to hear you talk about my mama like that.

使用する際の注意点

• (to attempt): This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. Unmarked conjugations can take and instead of to, for which also see Citations:try.

  I'm going to try to distract him. (more formal)

  I'm going to try and distract him. (less formal)

• (to make an experiment): This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing).
• See Appendix:English catenative verbs

同意語

• (to attempt): attempt, endeavor, fand, mint, take a run at, take a stab at
• (to taste, sample, etc): sample, taste

派生語

関連する語

名詞

try (複数形 tries)

1. An attempt.

   I gave unicycling a try but I couldn’t do it.

2. An act of tasting or sampling.

   I gave sushi a try but I didn’t like it.

3. (rugby) A score in rugby league and rugby union, analogous to a touchdown in American football.

   Today I scored my first try.

   • 2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport‎^[2]:

     But two penalties and a drop-goal from Jonny Wilkinson, despite a host of other wayward attempts, plus a late try from Chris Ashton were enough to send a misfiring England through.

4. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A screen, or sieve, for grain.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)

5. (米国用法 football) a field goal or extra point

同意語

• (an attempt): bash, go, stab, whirl
• (an act of tasting または sampling): sampling, taste, tasting
• (a score in rugby): touchdown (米国用法 football)
• (the point after touchdown): extra point (米国用法 football)

派生語

語源 2

Probably from Old French trié.

形容詞

try (comparative more try, superlative most try)

1. (obsolete) Fine, excellent.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.2:

     But he her suppliant hands, those hands of gold, / And eke her feete, those feete of silver trye, […] Chopt off […].

アナグラム

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