In a misguided attempt to be funny, he manages only offensiveness.

他试图使自己很风趣，可弄巧成拙地冒犯了别人。

She only did it in a misguided attempt to help.

她是要帮忙，只是想法不对头。

The thief made a misguided attempt to rob a policewoman.

那个贼不识好歹竟要抢劫一个女警察。

It's not a public safety issue or even a misguided attempt to liberate oppressed women.

它不是公共安全的问题，也不是企图误导的解放压迫妇女的问题。

The sad outcome seems to have been that she was often hurled into the waves as some sort of sacrifice to Neptune in a misguided attempt to avert stormy weather.

令人伤感的结局似乎该是这样：不知就里的海员常把这样的女人丢进大浪中，作为海神的祭品，希望借此避开险恶的天气。

This innocuous, petite speckled migrant came to the U.S. in the late1800s as part of a misguided attempt to introduce the animals mentionedin Shakespeare's works to America.

由于误导，人们试图将莎士比亚作品中提到的动物引入美国，于是十八世纪末，这种无害、娇小的斑点移民来到美国。

Regardless, the cause of the failure wasn't Lehman's misguided attempt to beautify its books. It was its excessive appetite for debt, and the risk tolerance of its creditors, for years before.

无论如何，破产的原因不是雷曼为了美化其账簿而做的误导性尝试，而是多年以来，其对债务胃口的大张，以及债权人的风险承受能力。