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

VOA: special.2009.11.19

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

This shocking image, this impossible-to-imagine image of a brooding impregnation, establishes the foundation for two of this poem's most daring elements.

这个令人震惊，难以想象的,孵伏怀孕的景象为这首诗的两个,最为大胆的元素奠定了基础。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

So what was your feeling there when you were, of course it's impossible to escape the Israeli-Palestinian conflict when you were in Israel especially. -Yeah.

那么你在以色列的时候又怎样的感觉？,你当然不可能避免巴以冲突,特别是当你在以色列的时候，-是的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It is impossible to imagine many of George's songs without Ira's perfectly chosen,often surprising words.

VOA: special.2009.02.08

Today I have the impossible task of finishing the parts of the Republic that I have assigned for the class.

今天我有个不可能的任务,完成《理想国》剩余的部份,依照我指定给同学的进度。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Annetta Cheek says the terms of use for a Blackberry are impossible to understand.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

I think it's very difficult, indeed I think it's impossible, to think of anything you'd want to do forever.

我认为很难，其实我认为不可能，想出一件你希望永远做下去的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

This was impossible when the ship entered an area of storms.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

but he's also insisting that this is an incredibly difficult, if not impossible, moment of thought.

但他同时坚持，如果可能，这对思维来说也是一个极其艰难的时刻。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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

VOA: special.2011.02.26

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

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

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

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

VOA: standard.other

It's actually not impossible, but hard, and there are a number of challenges.

事实上，它并非不可能，只是很艰难，要面对很多挑战。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

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

An impossible result here!" Borel then made the unprecedented move of changing mounts to ride "Rachel Alexandra" to the Preakness title two weeks later.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

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

"It is impossible to maintain a safe and effective health-care system under conditions of siege that have been in place now since June 2007."

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

Austria has given Indian observer status which means that it's not impossible to imagine a more intergrade rule of India in east Asian economy, if it moves in that direction.

奥地利还给出调查结果称,如果印度继续按照原政策发展,那么想要在东亚经济体中,将印度摆到中等国家的想法，是不可能的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Colin Macpherson, a professor of Earth sciences at Britain's Durham University, says it's impossible to know how long the volcano will continue to erupt.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

One can never come before something that, of course, has already happened, but this fiction of an impossible firstness is something that Milton is working very hard to accomplish here.

一个人绝不可能先于，已经发生的事情，但弥尔顿在这里就是要,努力达成这种不可能的先知。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"I certainly do think that it has become a victim of itself in many ways, like getting into some of the events are almost impossible.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

It's perfectly impossible, I think, to imagine a stronger statement than this of the authority that Milton gives, the intellectual self-possession that he ascribes, to the individual.

我认为这完全是有可能的，去想一个比弥尔顿,这个理论更有力的论述，他认为每个个人拥有的沉着冷静和泰然自若。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It is impossible. You don't make a movie for the fans of the book.

VOA: standard.2010.01.08

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

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