To ask that question after the passage of two centuries, says Pietro Nivola of the Brookings Institution, is to pose an impossible thought experiment.
都已经两世纪了，现在才来问这样的问题，根本就是摆出了不可能完成的想象实验，布鲁金斯研究所的彼得罗·尼沃拉(Pietro Nivola)如此表示。
In the 1976 Summer Olympics, Nadia Comaneci scored a perfect 10, which was thought impossible before.
在1976年夏季奥运会上，娜迪娅·科马内奇得到了满分10分，这在之前被认为是不可能的。
The woman is impossible, thought Francesca.
弗朗西丝卡暗自思忖，这个女人真让人受不了。
What was thought impossible has now been done.
原来认为办不到的事，现在办到了。
“I thought it would have been impossible for this to happen at any bank after SocGen, ” says the head of investment banking at a large bank.
供职于某大型银行投资银行部门的主管说：“自从法国兴业银行出事后，我想任何银行都不可能让这种事情发生。
“I thought it would have been impossible for this to happen at any bank after SocGen,” says the head of investment banking at a large bank.
供职于某大型银行投资银行部门的主管说：“自从法国兴业银行出事后，我想任何银行都不可能让这种事情发生。
Some people thought their Voyager project was both impossible and foolish.
有些人认为他们的“航行者”计划既不可能也很愚蠢。
In his company, I did things I thought were impossible.
在他公司里，我认为可能的事情，我就去做。
I thought it very impossible that she would get married soon.
我认为她不可能会很快结婚的。
"What Bill has done is somewhere between what we thought was difficult and impossible," said Mr.Libby, a consultant to the Archangel project.
利比先生担任着天使长项目的顾问，他说：“比尔做的事情不说是不可能吧也是非常困难。”
That is a feat thought impossible under the proportional-representation system adopted in 1978, and speaks of the gratitude of the majority, Sinhala, population for the end of the war.
这要是放到1978年那会儿的比例代表制下，基本上是不可能的事。这事能成，还是拜斯里兰卡的主宰民族——获得内战胜利的僧伽罗人所赐。
It is to the credit of the team at Tata Motors that a car once thought impossible by the world is now a reality.
正是塔塔汽车公司研发团队的信守承诺，才使得曾经不可思议的想法成为了现实。
The Antikythera mechanism has been discovered to be a mechanical computer of an accuracy thought impossible in 80 BC, when the ship that carried it sunk.
人们发现安提基特拉机械是一种机械计算机，这种精确的思路对公元前80年，该船沉没的年代，的人类而言是不可能做到的。
"What Bill has done is somewhere between what we thought was difficult and impossible," said Mr. Libby, a consultant to the Archangel project.
利比先生担任着天使长项目的顾问，他说：“比尔做的事情不说是不可能吧也是非常困难。”
The discovery has astonished scientists, who thought it was impossible for stars to exceed more than 150 times the mass of the sun.
这个发现让科学家们大为震惊他们曾经认为超过太阳质量150倍的恒星是不存在的。
But it wasn't all that long ago that the best minds in the world thought a journey to the moon was utterly impossible.
不过就在不久之前，不少世界上最聪明的人还认为登月不可能实现呢。
On Aug. 25, 1875, Captain Matthew Webb, a 27-year-old former English naval officer, accomplished a feat many thought impossible: swimming across the English Channel.
1875年4月25日，27岁的前英国海军军官马修·韦伯上尉完成了一项许多人认为不可能实现的壮举：游泳横渡英吉利海峡。
And let us not forget the iPhone 4g which is now offering video calling between phones - a dream that many of us thought impossible some twenty or so years ago.
我们不要忘了iPhone4g现在可以提供手机间的视频通话——这是我们大约二十年前认为不可能实现的一个梦。
This predatory species was found at 23, 678 feet (7, 217 meters), where scientists had previously thought it was impossible to support such life.
这种掠食动物发现于23678英尺(7217米)的深度。在此之前，科学家们认为这样的深度中栉水母无法生存。
Believe me that it is utterly impossible for me to have a single thought that is not yours.
相信我，我每时每刻无不想你，不想你是绝无可能的。
I thought it was impossible (as did many around me).
我认为这是不可能的(我周围的很多人也同样这么认为)。
Just over a hundred years ago, everyone thought it was impossible to fly.
就像一百多年以前，人们认为飞行是绝对不可能的。
The US made clear yesterday that it thought a legal treaty was impossible in Copenhagen.
美国昨天清楚地表明，它认为在哥本哈根不可能达成法律协定。
Two thirds of those questioned said they thought it would be ‘almost impossible’ to get their dream job and a quarter were unable to follow their preferred career.
三分之二的被调查者认为找到理想工作“几乎是不可能的”，四分之一的人无法从事自己喜欢的职业。
Two thirds of those questioned said they thought it would be 'almost impossible' to get their dream job and a quarter were unable to follow their preferred career.
三分之二的被调查者认为找到理想工作“几乎是不可能的”，四分之一的人无法从事自己喜欢的职业。
Men, for instance, routinely claim in surveys conducted all over the world to have slept with more women than vice versa-an observation that a moment's thought shows is impossible.
例如，全世界进行的调查中男人通常声称与女性发生关系比女性承认与男性发生关系的要多，然而反过来思考片刻就会发现这显然不可能。
My heart fluttered. There was no pain, only a beat that interrupted me yet again. This is impossible, I thought.
我的心跳加快起来，不是因为痛，只是“嘣”，“嘣”，“嘣”，一声声的心跳再次打断我的宁静。
The new system, however, will rely on ultralight versions of the aforesaid JPADS in order to sneak into locations that were previously thought impossible to penetrate.
不过，新系统将依托于前述联合精确空投系统的超轻型版本，以便能渗透进以往被认为不能穿透的区域。
Duplicate chromosomes were sent back to the center of the original cell, an event once thought impossible.
已经被复制的染色体则又被重新送回到了原细胞的细胞核中，这样做以前一向被认为是不可能的。
Duplicate chromosomes were sent back to the center of the original cell, an event once thought impossible.
已经被复制的染色体则又被重新送回到了原细胞的细胞核中，这样做以前一向被认为是不可能的。
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