It was impossible for him to pay the government three hundred dollars or pay someone else to serve for him in the army.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

It was becoming absolutely impossible, in fact, or at least much, much harder, to claim that there was a single expression of religious truth to which the English nation could consensually subscribe.

实际上，这是绝对不可能的，至少也是很难断言称,这种宗教真理是,整个英国都能勉强赞同的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But he's also suggesting how humor is used to broach topics that are impossible to talk about in more direct ways, or that feel dangerous to these boys to approach in more direct ways.

如同它也在不断发展,但他还提出,如何用以幽默的口吻展开话题，在无法直接谈论话题的时候,或者觉得这些人。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"And I long for the day when that modifier can be a moot point, but I'm ever grateful if I can inspire some young intrepid tenacious male or female filmmaker, and have them feel that the impossible is possible.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

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

Tests show in the nineteenth century that people could type four or five times as fast as they could handwrite and there's no ambiguity because it's very clear what key was struck; whereas, handwritten--fast handwriting becomes impossible to read--or difficult.

通过测试显示，在19世纪,人们打字的速度是手写的4至5倍,而且也不存在字迹模糊的问题,因为键盘敲击出来的非常清晰;,而手写，尤其是快速手写根本无法阅读,或者说是很难阅读。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选