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。
Grandfather, sometimes I felt as if I could not bear it any longer to be away from you!
爷爷，有时候我觉得我再也不能忍受离开你了！
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。
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。
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。
Even if the oil spill was not the direct cause of dolphins' death, it still could be a factor.
即使石油泄漏不是海豚死亡的直接原因，它仍可能是一个因素。
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。
It could be argued, however, that these conditions are not sufficient to explain the origins of agriculture.
然而，这些条件可以被认为是不足以解释农业起源的。
The fact that burning fuel creates these "negative externalities" does not imply that no tax on fuel could ever be too high.
燃烧燃料产生这些“负外部性”的事实并不意味着燃油税不会太高。
This organization warns this progress could be set back if measures are not taken to reverse the rise in obesity among young people.
该机构提醒，如果不采取措施逆转年轻人中不断增加的肥胖情况，这种进展可能会倒退。
In 1901 he succeeded in signaling across the Atlantic, from the west coast of England to Newfoundland in the USA, despite the claims of science that it could not be done.
1901年，尽管科学界声称这是不可能的，他仍成功地跨越大西洋发出信号，从英格兰西海岸发射，一直到美国的纽芬兰。
As someone who would quickly establish himself as the most talented Latinist probably in all of England, Milton is naturally—how could he not be?
作为一个可能很快就成为全英国最有才华的拉丁语学家，弥尔顿自然是——他怎么可能不是呢？
Our brains are filled with all sorts of details that might not be part of other people's, which could lead to disappointment for us.
我们的大脑填满了各种各样的细节，而它们可能不是别人的一部分，这可能会让我们失望。
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。
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。
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。
The streets were hot and dusty on the summer day, and the sun was so bright that it even shone through the haze over Coketown, and could not be looked at steadily.
夏天的街道又热又满是灰尘，太阳是那么明亮，它甚至穿透了焦化镇上空的阴霾，使人们不能稳定地看到它。
Within seven years of excavation, the Dover boat had been conserved and displayed, but it was apparent that there were issues that could not be resolved simply by studying the old wood.
经过长达7年的挖掘，多佛的船得到了保护和展示，但有些问题显然不能只通过研究陈旧的木材来解决。
She wore one of his shirts, a shirt that had once been blue but had faded until the color could not be named, and a pair of his breeches.
她穿着他的一件衬衣，这件衬衣曾经是蓝色的，但已经褪得说不上是什么颜色了，还穿了他一条马裤。
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。
She did not like to be rude, so she bore it as well as she could.
她不想粗鲁无礼，所以她尽量忍受着。
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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