Say, wasn't that Gump? Naw, that couldn't be.

VOA: standard.other

It's a set of images that couldn't be more foreign or more alien to the prophetic mode of the Old Testament prophets.

这是一组不能再背离旧约先知的形象的,一组比喻了。

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Now the subject matter that he's chosen for this poem, for this so-called first poem, couldn't possibly be more appropriate.

现在他选这首诗的主题很重要，这所谓第一首诗可能不太恰当。

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Couldn't that be a kind of existence that would be forever enjoyable and yet it wouldn't be a rat-like existence?

那样的存在难道不是让人永远享受的,而且并非老鼠般的存在？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But what's interesting with these cases is you couldn't have predicted ahead of time that they would be heroes.

但这些例子所表明的就是,你不可能提前预知,他们会成为英雄

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

We designed a lot of new materials that could be used to build things that couldn't have been done otherwise.

工程师们设计了多种材料来造出,前所未有的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Why didn't he come clean? Of course, they took "The Purloined Ribbon" to be his sort of allegorical way of suggesting that he couldn't possibly confess because nobody can confess, there's no human subjectivity, etc., etc., etc.

为什么不全盘招供，当然，人们把他写的“偷窃的缎带“当成他用一种讽喻的方式,来暗示说他不可能承认,因为没有人能承认，人类主观性的缺失，等等等等。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Well, this allows us to try to go back and explain some phenomena that over the years, mounting evidence was building that couldn't be explained.

好了，这个可以使得我们,返回去然后去解释一些，以前逐年积累的未能解释的现象,我们下节课将讨论。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

in such a way that after the rates were raised, they likely couldn't afford to pay the mortgage anymore or they'd be under great stress in trying to do so.

这种“引逗利率，以至于到后来他们没有能力偿还贷款,或者为了还贷给生活造成巨大压力。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Well, in fact, the Corinthians send very little, send a couple of ships and a general, which turn out to be tremendously important, but they couldn't have known that in advance.

实际上,当时科林斯的支援非常有限,只派遣了两只船和一个常规军,最后这支援变得极为重要,远远超出了他们的预期

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Somebody told me, by the way, that the sample concept sheet that we have listed on the website couldn't be downloaded, so we'll fix that, but we'll also send you out by email a sample concept sheet, along with guidelines for how to prepare them.

有人告诉我,顺便说下,网站上所列的观点报告范例不能下载,我们会进行修复的,同时我们也会通过电子邮件将范例报告,以及备写指南一并发给你们

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So we need something to direct it, but why couldn't that just be, one particular part of the body plays the part of the command module?

所以我们需要某个东西来引导,但是为什么不可能仅仅是,肉体某个特定的部分在扮演着,指挥舱的角色呢

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In other words, they couldn't just have named towns that used to be Mycenaean, but were still around, so that's why they knew them. No, some towns had disappeared, but the names of those towns show up in the catalog of ships.

换句话说,诗人们仅仅利用,现存的迈锡尼文明城镇的名字,是不可能列出名单的,有些城镇消失了,但它们的名字却出现在《船舶名录》中

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And another philosopher, Descartes, in thinking about God's omnipotence, thought that it wouldn't be good enough if God as omnipotent couldn't change the facts of mathematics.

另一个哲学家，笛卡尔在思考上帝万能的时候觉得，如果万能的上帝无法改变数学,那么便不能称为万能。

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