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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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 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。
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