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Try as he may

Thank you for answering my letter so quickly that I didn't expect... I remember that you encouraged me just to fire away with questions when I for the first time write to you for some answers, so, here I'd like to talk about my trouble with my English learning. I've been longing for some kind of magic that I could read just like an average English native. To reach this goal, I keep on reading whatever I get. The point is there're so many questions during my reading that I need the answers, even though I try my best to figure them out most of the time, but there are always a few I could not get them right by myself, and how I wish some day I could appreciate or enjoy English literature, especially those masterpieces by those great masters. I've been trying step by step and disappointedly find that I made little progress. Take some phrases, like "no less than/ no more than", and to put one of them into a sentence, "He is no less than a politician", what's the meaning? Still, another, "Try as he may", does it mean "尽管他努力了"?

Longing for your reply badly...

My comments:

Last things first. Don't long for a reply too "badly", or you may get a bad reply.

Now that I've warned you, let's proceed to see how this reply takes us. First you've got it right with "try as he may." For example, "Try as he may, he doesn't get the result he wants."

Similarly in your case, even though you've tried, you feel you're not getting results. "Try as he/she/they/I/you may" is always trailed by a negative statement. And so, it's perhaps time to stop trying. You, in consequence, turn to ask for magic bullets from me.