The phrase "an attempt to interpret" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to understand or explain something, such as a text, situation, or concept.
Example: "The researcher made an attempt to interpret the data collected from the experiment to draw meaningful conclusions."
Alternatives: "an effort to understand" or "a try to explain".
These writings were an attempt to interpret Roman history in terms of Greek political theory.
Every performance of a play in whatever language is itself a form of translation – an attempt to interpret and reanimate sparse and often enigmatic texts.
Therefore, an agreement about common values must be accompanied by an attempt to interpret and define them, so that the orator can direct the agreement to make it tally with his purposes.
As an attempt to interpret this behavior, we present the identifications of these "red" and "blue" clouds of post-AGB objects, respectively, in Tables 2 and 3.
The substantive analysis usually involves item reviews by subject-area experts (e.g., curriculum specialists or item writers) in an attempt to interpret the factors that may contribute to differential performance between specific groups of test takers.
Alongside Obamacare there is what we might call "Bergogliocare," in an attempt to interpret the parallels in the strategies adopted by these two leaders, each in his own environment, institutional and ecclesiastical.
The SIMT said that the present legal status of Jerusalem was irrelevant unless there was an unnecessary attempt to "interpret the straightforward message of the ad in a manner that went beyond what consumers were likely to understand from the ad".
Nor can a rigid attempt to interpret a document written in 1787 be the only way to understand it in 2013.
Opposed to mechanistic interpretations of human behaviour, he wrote The Group Mind (1920), a speculative attempt to interpret national life and character that was intended as a sequel to his Social Psychology.
Here we present a first attempt to interpret results from ground-based monitoring of mature forest carbon fluxes in a biogeographically, politically, and temporally differentiated way.
The Times should have assigned this book to someone prepared to evaluate a historian's attempt to interpret Hellman both as a creature and a defier of her world.
