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

VOA: special.2010.05.12

According to the Second Brother, it's virtually impossible for a single, helpless maiden to pass uninjured in this wild, surrounding waste.

弟弟认为，一个孤独无助的女孩想要，毫发无伤的穿过这野外的荒原是根本不可能的。

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 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

This now seemed impossible.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

It's really impossible, in fact, that you not have some opinions about this work, because it's an intimate part of our culture.

但实际上要你们对这想，是不太可能的，因为这已经成为我们文化不可或缺的一部分了。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

(...) Yigal Palmor. "This diktat is phrased in very extreme terms that try to impose rules that will make it impossible for any country to defend themselves against terror,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

This is impossible.

这是不可能的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Suddenly, it became almost impossible to criticize the legacy of the late president and this outburst of national emotions, after the disaster, changed the balance of power on the political scene."

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

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

The question isn't, is this explanation impossible?' The question is just, who's got the better explanation?' You guys can't offer any kind of explanation at all, yet.

问题不是,这种解释可不可能,问题是,谁的解释更合理,而你们这群人根本就没能做出任何解释

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Because she has really organized that Democratic Party and gotten them to do things in the House that no one else could do and that people said was impossible in this day and age in politics."

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

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

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

s very important but it's also pretty nearly impossible because the difficulty of the terrain, the people who are divided by this border do not recognize the border and the Afghanastan has never recognized it as an international border.

但其实也是几乎不可能的，It’,因为那里的地形很复杂，被这个边境线所分开的人们并不认可这个边境线,阿富汗人不认可这个边境线。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

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

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

Milton's pushing here toward a fantasy of physical invulnerability imagining an alternative -- this is science fiction an alternative model of bodily configuration that would render impossible the all-too-easy quenching of the tender eyeballs.

弥尔顿在这幻想着人的身体可以刀枪不入,他在想象一个另类的-这只是科幻,他在想象一个另类的身体构造模型,这样脆弱的眼球,就不会轻易受到伤害。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

For Hartman, the Miltonic simile actually permits the reader something like the perspective of eternity, a divine perspective, and of course, this is exactly what Stanley Fish had told us was impossible.

对他而言，弥尔顿式的比喻实际上使得读者能够,得知一些类似于永恒的透视，一个神圣的看法，当然，这是据费什所有，不可能的事情。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选