The release of the hostages could not be achieved without the use of force.
不使用武力不可能使人质获释。
He could not bear to be seen to act dishonourably.
他不能忍受别人认为他行径可耻。
Even now we could not be sure that the militants would not find some new excuse to call a strike the following winter.
即使到现在，我们也不能确定这些激进分子不会找到某个新的借口在下一年冬天号召一场罢工。
This, he thought, could not be true, because the "Origin of Species" is one long argument from the beginning to the end, and has convinced many able men.
他认为这是不可能的，因为“物种起源”从始至终都处在的漫长争论中，并且说服了许多有能力的人。
He remained standing a while, and at length inquired if he too could not be a doctor.
他站了一会儿，最后问他自己是不是也能当医生。
Mr. Marra, whose New York telephone number is ex-directory, could not be contacted yesterday.
马拉先生在纽约的电话号码没列入电话薄，昨天联系不上他。
You would be making an assumption that's not based on any fact that you could report.
你会做出不以你能报道的任何事实为依据的一种假设。
There could be many reasons and he was not going to waste time speculating on them.
原因可能很多，而他不打算浪费时间猜测这些原因。
She could not, by any stretch of the imagination, be called beautiful.
再怎么说，她也称不上漂亮。
The court ruled he could not be held personally liable for his wife's debts.
法庭裁定他个人不负有偿付妻子债务的责任。
We could not conceive that he might soon be dead.
我们无法相信他可能很快就会死去。
They could not say with confidence that he would be able to walk again after the accident.
他们不能肯定他经过那场事故后还能行走。
Witnesses said that two people were killed, but those accounts could not be confirmed.
目击者说两人遇害，但那些说法都没法得到证实。
The baby could not be pacified.
怎么也止不住婴儿的哭声。
He said the only alternative was to starve the people, and he said this could not be allowed to happen.
他说惟一的其他办法是饿那些人，但他说这种做法是不允许的。
That Rob was a snob and a social climber could not be denied.
那个罗布是个势利小人，喜欢攀龙附凤——无可否定。
I did not know birds could be like that.
我不知道鸟儿能是这样的。
He did not know that it could be kept.
他不知道它能被保存下来。
The whole of the ground-floor was a row of shops, and there people could not always be running through.
底层一排全是商店，人们在那里不可能总是从这些商店里穿过。
I knew I could not be as happy in another profession.
我知道我从事另一个职业时不可能如此快乐。
不能再穿了。
As tea could not be grown locally, just as in Britain, it was shipped into the country mostly from India.
由于茶叶不能像在英国那样在当地种植，所以大部分是从印度运来的。
The daguerreotype was a unique image that reproduced what was in front of the camera lens in minute, unselective detail and could not be duplicated.
达盖尔银版是一种独特的图像，它可以再现相机镜头前微小的、无选择性的细节，而且是不可复制的。
Charles Lyell made a good estimate of the Tertiary Period from the fossil record, but his method could not be extended to earlier geological periods.
查尔斯·莱尔根据化石记录对第三纪作出了很好的估计，但他的方法不能扩展到更早的地质时期。
She stayed in the Northwest, although the test could not be more specific than somewhere between eastern Oregon and western Wyoming.
她留在了西北部，尽管测试的结果在俄勒冈州东部和怀俄明州西部之间的一些地方里是最具体的。
It was not long before green tea could be bought from the market.
不久绿茶就可以从市场上买到。
Although these devices performed satisfactorily around the Mediterranean, they could not always be depended on in the cloudy and often freezing weather of northern Europe.
尽管这些装置在地中海周围运行良好，但在北欧多云且经常寒冷的天气里，它们并不总是能派上用场。
In the streets, not even a dog could be seen.
在街上，甚至连一只狗也看不见。
One day, mentally exhausted, I wrote down all the reasons why this problem could not be solved.
一天，我心力交瘁，写下了问题未被解决的所有原因。
If they do not, their membership could be delayed until 2008.
如果他们不这样做，他们的成员资格将被推迟到2008年。
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