In all honesty he could not have justified ordering more than twelve gross of the disks.
说实话他本来就不能为定购这些超过十二罗的光碟提供正当理由.
Logic dictates that our ancestors could not have held a yearly festival until they figured what a year was.
依照逻辑推论，我们的祖先在弄清1年是什么意思之前，不可能举行过每年一度的节庆。
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。
As a result, he could not continue his work in the shop.
因此，他不能继续在店里工作了。
Without them, a garden could not be considered a Chinese-style garden.
没有它们，一个园林就不能被认为是中式园林。
Boats could carry heavy weights, but canals could not cross hilly terrain; turnpikes could cross the hills, but the roadbeds could not stand up under great weights.
船可以运载重物，但运河不能穿越丘陵地带；高速公路可以翻山越岭，但路基承受不了巨大的重量。
I could not distinguish her words.
我听不清她说的话。
The empire could not cohere as a legitimate whole.
这个帝国无法凝聚成一个合法的整体。
I emptied out my pockets but could not find my keys.
我把口袋里的东西都掏了出来，仍然找不到我的钥匙。
Horton's Achilles heel was that he could not delegate.
霍顿的致命弱点是他不肯放权。
He could not conceal his annoyance at being interrupted.
他因受扰而难掩怒色。
I could not distinguish her words, but she sounded agitated.
我听不清她说的话，但听得出她很紧张不安。
He could not reconcile himself to the prospect of losing her.
他一想到有可能失去她，就觉得难以忍受。
They could not afford to spoil those maps by careless colouring.
他们不敢用随意的涂色毁了那些地图。
I had made it as plain as I could so that he could not fail to take my meaning.
我已经尽我所能地说明白，所以他不会不理解我的意思。
He could not escape the massed ranks of newsmen who spotted him crossing the lawn.
他无法躲开那些发现他穿过草坪的成群记者。
His life seemed stuck in limbo ; he could not go forward and he could not go back.
他的生活好像陷入了不知所措的境地，进退两难。
It should have been an occasion for rejoicing, but she could not feel any real joy.
原本应该是高兴的时刻，她却丝毫未感到快乐。
We were both so hyped up about buying the house, we could not wait to get in there.
我们两人都对买这所房子感到紧张兴奋，迫不及待地要进去看看。
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。
Having bluffed his way in without paying, he could not plausibly demand his money back.
没付钱混了进去，他不大可能理直气壮地要回自己的钱。
At work he was regarded as a miracle worker, the man who took risks and could not lose.
工作中他被看作是奇迹的缔造者，冒了不少风险却从未失败。
I was so hungry all the time that I could not keep the diet up for longer than a month.
我总是饿，所以我的节食一个月后就继续不下去了。
He could not get a single witness to establish independent corroboration of his version of the accident.
他找不到一个目击证人可以为他对事故的陈述提供独立的佐证。
The concert was sold out, and in any case, most of the people gathered in the square could not afford the price of a ticket.
音乐会的票已售完，再说，聚在广场上的人也大都买不起票。
She could not look after Remy.
她无法照顾雷米。
Planes could not fly if there is not any air.
如果没有空气，飞机就无法飞行。
I could not look away from my last view.
我无法将视线从最后一眼看到的景象移开。
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