They said it would be impossible to get supplies to a large army east of the river.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

If it's not clear, the problem is going to be impossible to solve.

问题也就不可能，得到解决。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Life would be impossible without those emotions.

没有情感就没有生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

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

He says, "to succeed in many things or many times is 'difficult.' For instance, to repeat the same throw of dice 10,000 times would be impossible; whereas, to make it once or twice is comparatively easy."

他说,要成就很多事情,或成就一件事情很多次,是很困难的,比如,掷一万次骰子都得到同样的结果,是不可能的,但是,掷一两次却是相对容易的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.05.12

These are programs that are already enacted, that are in law that would be virtually impossible to reverse.

这些机制已经立法通过了，成了白底黑字,事实上也不可能推翻。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Officials told him it would be impossible with a motorcycle.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

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

(SAYING) Mely says that while the push for immigration reform is difficult, it should not be impossible.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

I think it's terribly important to keep the distinction in the back of our minds even if we find it, in practical terms, well nigh impossible and possibly even in many contexts a waste of time to be perpetually enforcing it.

你们一定要牢记这个区别,这实在是太重要了，尽管有时我们发现在一些的文本中这种区别很微小,看上去不值得花时间去研究或使用。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Less than two years later, Crist has left the Republican Party to run as an independent candidate in the race for a U.S.Senate seat in Florida, after realizing it was going to be impossible for him to win the Republican primary.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

To be quite objective in these matters is of course impossible.

要在这些当中保持客观是肯定不可能的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

This was it. What could be an impossible effort in the history of spaceflight was ready to lift off on its final chance for success.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

That's only going to be true if dying as a joint undertaking is impossible.

这只能在共同死亡是不可能的条件下才是真的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"I feel like it's impossible to please the hardcore comic book fans because they'll never be happy no matter what you do.

VOA: standard.2010.06.20

For Plato" he says "also is of the opinion that it is impossible for the disorders of the state ever to be taken away until sovereigns be philosophers."

对于柏拉图，他说道,也相信只有当一国君王,自己成为了哲学家,才可能将一国的纷乱扫尽“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"I don't want to get people's hopes up and they get so profoundly disappointed it is going to be tough, but nothing is impossible."

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

It's not until Book Three of Paradise Lost that the poet explicitly reveals to us, to his readers, the fact of the physical handicap that might reasonably be thought to render impossible his composition of the poem.

直到失乐园第三卷,诗人才明确告诉读者们，自己失明的事实,这可能被合理的认为是他无法完成诗歌创作的原因。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Aguerre believes ETA will eventually be eradicated, but it is impossible to say when.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

Oftentimes, inventions that seem, in the abstract, to be good ideas may be impossible because something that you have to do to make it actually come into practice is too expensive and so it's not economic to produce the invention.

通常在理论上,创新固然不错,但却很难实现,因为把创意变成现实,花费会相当的昂贵,实现这样的创意非常不合算

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Mr.Karzai won the presidential election by default after his main challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, withdrew from a runoff, saying it was impossible for the vote to be fair.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

Some people in this room might be hubs, and it is not impossible to find out.

这个教室里可能就人这样的人，要找出来很简单。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"If this implies any practical steps taken against Israel, it will make it impossible for any Israeli government to take risks for the sake of peace and that will be detrimental for the peace process,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

You also do walking meditation, you can do mantra meditation, you can do all sorts of meditations that can be seen as a step towards maintaining the state of mindfulness at all points of your daily life, which is impossible unless you're a monk for a very long time.

还有行禅，曼怛罗冥想，你可以进行各种冥想修行,都可被视为正迈向,在日常生活的每时每刻,保持警醒，这几乎不可能实现,除非你是修行多年的僧侣。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It's a fantasy, of course, because no such brainwashing is going to be possible, just as the fallen angels - if you look at line 607 - will be barred from drinking their fill of the river Lethe, forgetfulness is impossible.

当然这是一次幻想，因为这种洗脑,根本就不可能实现，就如同那些堕落天使一般,如果看第607行7,他们被禁止喝忘川之水，遗忘是不可能的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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