Water is extremely important. Without water from the Colorado River, farming is not possible.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

Societal change is not possible,they say.

他们认为，社会变革是不可能的。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

And the error that Lykken and Tellegen and many others make " when they generalize and say "change is not possible" " is what I call "the error of the average".

像Lykken和Tellegen那样，人们常错误地,概括出一个结论，“变化是不可能的“,我称之为“大众错误。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Confirming details of John Henry's life is not possible.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

In other words, the text is what makes the ascertainment of meaning possible and available to us, but meaning is not in the text.

换言之,作品才是使含义得以传达的必要条件，但含义又并不在文本里。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Without water, life in the desert is not possible.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

The account of the conquest in Joshua 2 through 12, is concerned to express the basic idea that Israel's victories would not have been possible without Yahweh, without his wondrous help.

在《约书亚书》第2到12章中记叙的征服，想要表达一种基本的观点,以色列不可能获胜，如果没有耶和华，没有他神奇的帮助。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Thus,he says,it is not possible to ascertain who is responsible for the shelling or to make a definitive casualty count.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

If life on the experience machine is not everything, then there's more to the best possible life than getting the insides right.

如果体验机器上的人生并非一切，那么获得最好人生需要的,就不止是内在的正确。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It's not possible. If you really want to make it up,fine, but it was not possible then, it is not possible now."

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

I know it's possible to induce chemical reactions, but these are exceptions. This is not the norm.

我知道催化化学反应是可能的，但是那些是特例，不是常规情况。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"With the civilians, it is not possible to go and conduct offensive operations in that area.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

This is optimized not for that common case but for all possible cases.

这不是通常情况的最佳化,而是各种可能的情况。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Independent confirmation of the death toll is not possible because the region is a militant stronghold.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

That's certainly one way to do it, but for computers that's not necessarily the easiest way. So another way of solving it is to do something we already saw last time, which is basically, why not simply enumerate all possible examples and check them?

将一个等式代入另一个等式，这当然是一种办法,但是对电脑来说这绝对不是一件简单的事,所以解决这个问题的办法，正如我们上一次看过的,非常基本？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Independent verification of the fighting is not possible because journalists are barred from the war zone.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

So, this evidence is very possible to see in diametrically opposed ways, and you're certainly not the first two students that I've seen have those two different reactions to the same thing.

所以，我们非常可能要从完全不同的角度来看待这些了，你们两个不是最早对这个问题,有两种不同看法的学生了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

She says it is not possible to deliver aid to the region by road because of insecurity and the rains, which make the roads impassable.

VOA: standard.2009.08.08

At the same time that he is this great thing almost like a god, he is also not a god in the most crucial way possible.

他几乎像神一样伟大,但与此同时,在这可能是最关键的一点上,他又不是神

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"There was checking all around. But somehow, it is not possible to check all vehicles, so they might have slipped a vehicle inside and exploded it."

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

Poetry is not interested in expert debate at all, and it converts the big spectrum of possible degrees of accent into those two simple categories: stressed and unstressed syllables.

诗是从不在乎这样专业的争议的，它将涵盖很多不同程度的重音的音谱,简单分成两种：,重音和非重音节。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

So I think it becomes clear that even if we want to reduce our regional profile, an issue like the Yemen issue makes it clear that this is not possible,"

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

The ones who would conserve energy, that is they were sedentary when possible, other then when they had to go get food would again not waste their calories but would save them and contribute to the gene pool.

那些保存能量的人,那些能躺不坐,能坐不站的人,除非必须再次寻找食物,否则是绝对不会浪费能量的人,也是对基因库有贡献的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"When they are marginalized, when they are mistreated, when they are ignored, when they are demeaned, the progress is not possible, no matter how rich and well-educated the elite may appear."

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

not just our imagination-- they stretch our ability to understand when and where change is possible.

不只延伸了我们的想象，还让我们能理解,怎样的时间和地点，有可能产生变化。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

He said in his opinion, the president has the same immunity as the members of parliament, so it is not possible for President Gul to be tried as long as he is president.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

But not seeing how it's possible is not the same thing as seeing that it's impossible.

但现阶段无法预见其可能,并不代表永远不可能

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Historians also say it is possible that she chose to write to someone like Higginson so she would not be understood.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

And so it's not, perhaps, crippling if this is the conclusion we reach, but at the same time it's not the only possible conclusion.

因此，如果这就是我们的结论，也没有太大关系，但同时要知道这不是惟一可能的结论。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

If we learn from these experiences in ourselves, the question is no longer whether or not it's possible to experience it more and more in our lives.

如果我们自己吸取这些经验，那么问题就不再是，是否有可能,越来越多地体验它。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选