It was not possible to travel straight through because of the Rocky Mountains and the deep snow that fell in winter.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

With the computer today, you can, for the most part, not represent every possible number that mankind can think of.

在当今世界，大多数情况下，并不是要把每个数字,都精确表示出来。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

In other words, the text is what makes the ascertainment of meaning possible and available to us, but meaning is not in the text.

换言之,作品才是使含义得以传达的必要条件，但含义又并不在文本里。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Research has shown that these possible fossils were not formed while the rock was here on Earth.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

So again, I'm not claiming these are the only other possible payoffs, but just another possibility to look at.

重申一下,我没说只有这几种可能的收益,这只是其中的一种可能罢了

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

It was possible that gold holdings might fall so low the government could not support the dollar.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

Freedom was a kind of an accident that came about because the usual ways of doing things were not possible.

自由的产生和发展是非常偶然的,因为照正常发展是不可能出现的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

If that is not possible, then clean off the equipment and your shoes when leaving.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

The account of the conquest in Joshua 2 through 12, is concerned to express the basic idea that Israel's victories would not have been possible without Yahweh, without his wondrous help.

在《约书亚书》第2到12章中记叙的征服，想要表达一种基本的观点,以色列不可能获胜，如果没有耶和华，没有他神奇的帮助。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Water is extremely important. Without water from the Colorado River, farming is not possible.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

So that means it's not possible, if we've made these stipulations in the first place, to have a case where l equals 1.

这说明我们之前的假设,ｌ等于１不可能的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The Union victory might not have been possible without the successes of its navy.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

And those who argue it's not possible and use science to argue for that, very often,are hurting more than helping the field.

而那些认为这不可能的人,他们用科学来争论，很多时候，只有阻碍作用而毫无帮助。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"The Department of Justice will insure the American people do not foot the bill for this disaster and that our laws will be enforced as much as possible."

VOA: special.2010.06.04

And that's not possible in all parts of the world, not everybody has that opportunity to interact with medical professionals that often.

而这不可能在世界各处都能实现,并不是每个人都经常有机会见到医生的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"I believe it is not only possible, but in fact easier to do this without deciding the legal question of whether these states have ever been out of the Union.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

It's not the ideal of human existences; it's not the best possible life we can imagine ourselves having.

它并非人类完美的存在;,它不是我们所能想象的最美好的生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Without water, life in the desert is not possible.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

I know it's possible to induce chemical reactions, but these are exceptions. This is not the norm.

我知道催化化学反应是可能的，但是那些是特例，不是常规情况。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The training was staged to be as realistic as possible and the soldiers did not know what would happen next.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

So, this evidence is very possible to see in diametrically opposed ways, and you're certainly not the first two students that I've seen have those two different reactions to the same thing.

所以，我们非常可能要从完全不同的角度来看待这些了，你们两个不是最早对这个问题,有两种不同看法的学生了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Thus,he says,it is not possible to ascertain who is responsible for the shelling or to make a definitive casualty count.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

If I were starting a new company, I would look for some large, fast-growing industry that was inefficient, and was not keeping pace with the changes that are possible.

要是开一家新公司的话，我会找一些大的，发展迅速但是效率较低的，没有跟上,变化的行业。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

"I thanked the president for his tremendous leadership, because without President Obama in the White House this victory would not have been possible.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

Poetry is not interested in expert debate at all, and it converts the big spectrum of possible degrees of accent into those two simple categories: stressed and unstressed syllables.

诗是从不在乎这样专业的争议的，它将涵盖很多不同程度的重音的音谱,简单分成两种：,重音和非重音节。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"With the civilians, it is not possible to go and conduct offensive operations in that area.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

Traditionally, financial inventions were not granted patent rights, but now in the United States and in a number of other countries it has become possible to patent financial inventions.

传统的金融产品,是没有专利的,但现在,在美国,和其他的一些国家中,金融产品也拥有了专利

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Independent confirmation of the death toll is not possible because the region is a militant stronghold.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

The regime for him is not one branch of human activity among others it is the fundamental principle or ordering principle that makes all the others even possible.

对他而言,政体并非人类活动的一个分支,而是基本的原则,或说是指导原则,使所有其它学科化作可能,这就是为何。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But, you know, in 2D, the options are not just left and right or north and south, but infinity of possible directions in which I could go those 5 km.

但在二维空间中,不仅可以向左向右或者向南向北,我在走那5公里的时候可以有无数个方向

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选