experiment(ation)

1.make an experiment比try an experiment好。

2.experiment有时用作抽象名词，作“试验”解，如a great deal of experiment和ten years of study and experiment。这两种表达方式里的experiment可以改作experimentation，但通常用experiment。

3.experiment通常是不及物动词，后面接on或with。例如：The students are experimenting on（或with）a piece of metal.