Blinded by a meaningless imperfection and an impossible goal, Aylmer had thrown away her life and with it his chance for happiness.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

Milton's constructing -- it's a remarkable and impossible strategy here, and it's one we can call a strategy of retrospective anticipation Of course, this retrospective anticipation can only be a fiction.

弥尔顿用了--这种手法很奇妙而且不可能，我们可以称之为返顾预测的手法,这是一种。。。，当然，，and，it’s，a，type，of…,返顾预测是不可能的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And it's impossible for us to, to keep up with it.

我们不可能跟得上他的思维。

和男朋友在一起 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

She says she permits herself to express her insecurities and fears in her music in a way that would be impossible in real life.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

These are unquestionably strong words, and I think it's impossible for us to overestimate the weight of these words.

毫无疑问，这些言辞非常激烈，我觉得,怎么高估它们的分量都不过分。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In many places, it seemed impossible that negroes and whites could live together peacefully, in freedom.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

I don't think that's gonna happen. What I really do hope is books like this and other actors coming to help religion and rights to be reconcile in a positive way. I don't think that's impossible at all.

我觉得这不太可能会发生，我真正希望的是,能有这样的书籍出现，或者其他的因素,促使宗教和人权和谐共处,走向和解的道路，我觉得这完全有可能。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Poor people found it almost impossible to buy food and other necessities.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

So if somebody comes along and says No,no,everybody dies alone, and dying as part of a joint undertaking is impossible, they're just saying something false.

如果有人说，不，大家都是孤独而死的，死亡作为共同行动是不可能的，他们就错了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And rock and roll music would almost be impossible without this instrument.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

But it's just too complicated and too -it's impossible to make it work perfectly.

但这非常困难,非常复杂,而且不可能尽善尽美

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In the end,Eddie must make an impossible decision between love and betrayal.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

If you have a computer that plays chess and you want to explain how the computer plays chess, it's impossible to do so without talking about the programs and mechanisms inside the computer.

如果你有一台能下国际象棋的计算机,你想要解释计算机是如何下国际象棋的，如果你不谈程序以及计算机的内部结构,那你就不能对它如何下国际象棋,给出解释。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

A fight followed and a confusion of sounds impossible to describe.

VOA: special.2011.02.26

For if I say that this is to disobey the god and because of this it is impossible to keep quiet, you will not be persuaded by me on the grounds that I am being ironic.

因为假设我说那是违悖神意,所以我无法保静默，你们不会被我说服,反而会以为我语带讽刺；

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

and so it was impossible to do the work;

VOA: special.2009.05.16

It was impossible-- doctors and scientists showed, runners, athletes, the top-ones in the world proved that the doctors were right.

那是不可能的，医生和科学家证明了，跑手，运动员，世上顶尖选手证明了医生们是对的。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Margaret Smith, a leader in Washington society at that time, wrote a letter describing the scene: Ladies fainted, men were seen with bloody noses and such a scene of confusion took place as is impossible to describe - those who got in could not get out by the door again, but had to scramble out of windows.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

So you can see that we're starting to have a very complicated equation, and it turns out that it's mathematically impossible to even solve the exact Schrodinger equation as we move up to higher numbers of electrons.

所有你们可以看到我们得到了,一个非常复杂的方程，结果是它在数学上是,不可能解出确定的,薛定谔方程,当我们考虑更高的电子数目的时候。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Actual modernization,says Nemtsov, is impossible without naming and removing the people responsible for the stagnation and authoritarian rule in the first place.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

The critics of this point of view would say that's impossible and inconceivable.

对这种观点持批评态度的评论家,认为这令人难以置信

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Not exactly. When we taste human blood, a sort of frenzy begins, and it's almost impossible to stop.

VOA: standard.other

The incentive in Washington is such that it's virtually impossible to cut spending unless you can go to the voters " and say "We don't have the money."

政府的机制就是这样,削减财政开支，几乎不可能,除非你有勇气对选民说,“政府没钱了“

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

For most men and women, fitting in an hour of moderately intense exercise in an already hectic day is difficult, if not impossible.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

What's distinctive about the South: "The South has a tradition," Said Gurganus, "Of attempting the impossible at great cost, proudly celebrating the failure, and in gaining admiration for the performance."

写的是南方的独特之处,"南方有种传统",古尔加努斯说,"付出巨大的代价挑战命运,即便失败仍非常自豪,并因此而为他人所尊敬"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Even such simple tasks as collecting rainwater have been nearly impossible given the poverty and devastation.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

It's true, these questions have been debated for a very long time but the very fact that they have recurred and persisted may suggest that though they're impossible in one sense, they're unavoidable in another.

诚然，这些问题争论已久,但正因为这些问题反复出现,也许表明，虽然在某种意义上它们无法解决，但另一种意义上，却又无可避免。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

He says academically and professionally, it is impossible to distinguish students from poor and elite backgrounds.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

It's impossible for all intense and purposes.

不管你想法多么强烈，目标多么明确，这事也没法办到。

How can I 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It's practically impossible to begin a reading of Milton without the burden of innumerable prejudices and preconceptions.

想要不带大量的偏见或成见的解读米尔顿,几乎是不可能的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选