The release of the hostages could not be achieved without the use of force.
不使用武力不可能使人质获释。
Even now we could not be sure that the militants would not find some new excuse to call a strike the following winter.
即使到现在，我们也不能确定这些激进分子不会找到某个新的借口在下一年冬天号召一场罢工。
He remained standing a while, and at length inquired if he too could not be a doctor.
他站了一会儿，最后问他自己是不是也能当医生。
This, he thought, could not be true, because the "Origin of Species" is one long argument from the beginning to the end, and has convinced many able men.
他认为这是不可能的，因为“物种起源”从始至终都处在的漫长争论中，并且说服了许多有能力的人。
The baby could not be pacified.
怎么也止不住婴儿的哭声。
That Rob was a snob and a social climber could not be denied.
那个罗布是个势利小人，喜欢攀龙附凤——无可否定。
The court ruled he could not be held personally liable for his wife's debts.
法庭裁定他个人不负有偿付妻子债务的责任。
Witnesses said that two people were killed, but those accounts could not be confirmed.
目击者说两人遇害，但那些说法都没法得到证实。
Mr. Marra, whose New York telephone number is ex-directory, could not be contacted yesterday.
马拉先生在纽约的电话号码没列入电话薄，昨天联系不上他。
He said the only alternative was to starve the people, and he said this could not be allowed to happen.
他说惟一的其他办法是饿那些人，但他说这种做法是不允许的。
Without them, a garden could not be considered a Chinese-style garden.
没有它们，一个园林就不能被认为是中式园林。
When his parents moved to another city to work, they could not be at home to look after him.
当他的父母搬到另一个城市工作时，他们不能在家照顾他。
When they saw how deep the hole was, they cried to the two frogs that they could not be saved.
当看到洞这么深时，它们对两只青蛙喊道救不了它们了。
我不能得到安宁！
不能再穿了。
I knew I could not be as happy in another profession.
我知道我从事另一个职业时不可能如此快乐。
Even on wet days it could not be said that Mary and Colin were dull.
即使在雨天，玛丽和科林也不无聊。
Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another question.
爱丽丝觉得这是无可否认的，所以她又问了一个问题。
And Italy's shape could not be forgotten once you had made the association.
一旦你把意大利的形状进行联想，你就不会忘记它。
In what direction, for he could not be sure that the children had been taken to the ship?
究竟往哪个方向走呢？因为他不能肯定孩子们是不是已经被带到船上去了。
For hours he could not be separated from these dreams, though he wailed piteously in them.
几个小时以来，他无法与这些梦分开，尽管他在梦中哀嚎。
One day, mentally exhausted, I wrote down all the reasons why this problem could not be solved.
一天，我心力交瘁，写下了问题未被解决的所有原因。
I realized that many of them were hard to answer, and perhaps others could not be answered at all.
我意识到有许多问题很难回答，也许还有一些根本无法回答。
As tea could not be grown locally, just as in Britain, it was shipped into the country mostly from India.
由于茶叶不能像在英国那样在当地种植，所以大部分是从印度运来的。
She stayed in the Northwest, although the test could not be more specific than somewhere between eastern Oregon and western Wyoming.
她留在了西北部，尽管测试的结果在俄勒冈州东部和怀俄明州西部之间的一些地方里是最具体的。
She wore one of his shirts, a shirt that had once been blue but had faded until the color could not be named, and a pair of his breeches.
她穿着他的一件衬衣，这件衬衣曾经是蓝色的，但已经褪得说不上是什么颜色了，还穿了他一条马裤。
The debate could not be resolved because no one was able to ask the crucial questions in a form in which they could be pursued productively.
这场辩论未能得到解决，因为没有人能够以一种有效讨论这些关键问题的方式提出这些问题。
The daguerreotype was a unique image that reproduced what was in front of the camera lens in minute, unselective detail and could not be duplicated.
达盖尔银版是一种独特的图像，它可以再现相机镜头前微小的、无选择性的细节，而且是不可复制的。
Charles Lyell made a good estimate of the Tertiary Period from the fossil record, but his method could not be extended to earlier geological periods.
查尔斯·莱尔根据化石记录对第三纪作出了很好的估计，但他的方法不能扩展到更早的地质时期。
Germany is known for its efficiency and refined engineering, but when it comes to its new ghost airport, this reputation could not be further from the truth.
德国以其高效率和精巧的工程而闻名，但当谈到它的新幽灵机场时，这种名声就与事实相差甚远了。
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