try one's hand

基本解释

One of the hostages was foolhardy enough to try to wrest the gun from the hijacker's hand.
有一个人质莽撞地企图去夺劫机者手中的枪。
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Companies often try to discover one another's trade secrets through lawful methods of reverse engineering on one hand and less lawful methods of industrial espionage on the other.
一方面这些公司常通过反向工程这类合法途经来找到其它公司的商业秘密，另一方面通过如行业（商业）侦探之类的不合法行为来找寻其它公司的商业秘密。

On the one hand, the Administration's reflexive reaction is to try to accommodate virtually any demand from the central authorities in Moscow.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy
For those who wanted to try their hand at gate-crashing, Dagens Nyheter, one of the country's daily newspapers, helpfully provided its readers with a mask of Horace Engdahl, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy—the organisation which awards the literature prize.
ECONOMIST: The Nobel-prize ceremonies