We do not own the building. Thus, it would be impossible for us to make any major changes to it.
我们不是这栋楼房的房主，因此不能对它进行大改动。
'It certainly would be extremely difficult for someone from outside of Yale to get into that space. Not impossible, but extremely difficult,' he told the newspaper.
他说，耶鲁以外的人要进入那个地方肯定是极其困难的，并非完全不可能，但极其困难。
Many people think it’s impossible to be a bike commuter with children, but that is simply not the case.
很多人都认为带着孩子不可能成为自行车上班族，但如果不这么想，这件事确实很简单。
If past credit problems makes getting a loan on their own impossible, that may very well be a portent of how seriously (or not) they treat their responsibility to creditors and, by extension, you.
如果是因为过去的信用问题使得个人无法获得贷款，那对方对于债权人的义务又有几分认真？进一步来说，对你又有几分认真呢？
It is hard, if not impossible, to imagine exactly what it would be - such is the nature of paradigm shifts, they cannot be predicted.
准确地设想，即使并非不可能，也是很困难的——这就是范型变化的自然特性，它们无法被预测。
Well, some might not, but for an election-weary media and, more importantly, public, it's impossible not to be fascinated by her.
也许真有人不吧。但对于已经产生大选疲劳的媒体，和更为重要的公众来说，不大可能不被佩林迷住。
Indeed, important military shifts have already been set in motion that will be difficult if not impossible to reverse.
确实，军事上的重要改变已经在发生，要逆转这样的趋势，如果不是不可能的话，起码也是很困难的。
In the crowded central regions of the galaxy, home to large Numbers of massive stars, supernovas are so common that the evolution of complex life-forms might be difficult if not impossible.
在银河系拥挤的中心区域存在着大量的大质量恒星，频繁的超新星爆发使得复杂生命形式的产生不是不可能就是极度困难。
"It turns out to be next to impossible to debug software," Calo says. "You can have a sense of what a program is going to do, but getting it 100 percent right is not possible."
“下一个结果不可能是调试软件”卡罗说，“你会知道一个程序将会怎么做，但给它百分之百的权利是不可能的。”
Some things simply cannot be altered and resilient people accept this, not wasting energy on trying to do the impossible.
有些东西根本无法改变，有韧性的人能接受这一点，不会浪费精力来做不可能的事。
Let's assume that it's impossible not to be fooled at least some of the time - that when assessing patients' sincerity, we should expect a certain rate of false positives.
我们假设，至少在某些时候我们不可能不被糊弄- - -比如，在评估病人的是否诚实时，我们应该想到会有一定比率的误诊。
It is not in our best interest to not tolerate opposition, because this would make it impossible for us to be part of the modern world.
不容忍对立面是不符合我们的利益的，因为那使我们不能成为当前现代世界的一部分。
But that does not mean that more effective checks on the mentally unstable are impossible, or that restrictions on the killing power of what can be sold are doomed to failure.
但是那并不意味着对于一些精神失常的人，在枪支使用方面的有效控制是不可能的，或是对于何种枪支可供出售的限制注定会失败。
Well, that was my mandate — one I quickly learned would be impossible to achieve if I rented a car, which could run me $40 a day, not to mention gas and parking.
呃，那正是我的要求——我很快明白，如果租一部车是不可能实现这一点的，每天的租金就要花掉我40美元，更别提油钱和停车费了。
Such fruitful results would be difficult, if not impossible, to achieve without the speed enabled by agile development processes.
如果没有敏捷开发流程提供的速度，这样丰硕的成果将很难或不可能实现。
Perhaps the greatest by-product of this softer approachis you are not building a negative image that may be nearly impossible to eraselater.
使用温和手段的最大效果就是，你不会给自己建立一个负面形象，而且是事后几乎不可能消除的那种。
All these events will be influenced to some degree by global temperatures, but it's impossible to say with certainty that any of them would not have happened in the absence of man-made global warming.
所有这些事件都将受到全球气温一定程度的影响，但是不能十分肯定地说，其中任何之一不会发生在没有人为全球变暖的情形里。
Whereas plastic composite materials can also provide great strength and lightness, they can be difficult if not impossible to recycle.
虽然塑料复合材料也能提供高强度，轻巧的部件，但塑料复合材料几乎很难回收利用。
All of these Asian operations are wholly owned, a position that under current regulations would be difficult if not impossible to replicate in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and China.
所有这些亚洲运营公司都是独资企业，在当前的管制下想要复制其在马来西亚，泰国，印度尼西亚和中国的辉煌，虽然不是不可能，但会相当困难。
Business environments, like ecosystems, can be fragile-and once lost, competitive advantage can be hard, if not impossible, to regain.
商业环境和生态环境一样很脆弱，一旦失去竞争优势，即使不是完全不可能，但也很难重新获得。
Funding can be unpredictable, short-lived, or inflexible, making it difficult, if not impossible, to launch long-term plans.
供资不可预测、短暂，或不灵活，因此即使不是不可能，至少也很难启动长期计划。
All of these operations are wholly owned, a position that under current regulations would be difficult if not impossible to replicate in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and China.
所有这些业务都是独资拥有的，这种地位在当前监管下如果并非不可能也起码很难在马来西亚、泰国、印尼和中国复制。
Although responsibilities can be divided, it's not impossible for one person to acquire all these skills.
可以将责任进行划分，一个人不可能拥有所有这些技能。
Not only is it impossible to write multiple data blocks to disk simultaneously, but writing every data block to disk when any part of it changes would be bad for system performance.
不仅不可能同时将多个数据块写入磁盘，而且每当进行修改时马上将每个数据块写入磁盘，也对系统性能有不利影响。
The pleasure children get from such activities would be impossible to explain if they didn't have a reasonably sophisticated understanding that the pretend is not real.
如果孩子们不能清楚地认识到，假装不同于现实，那孩子们从这种活动中获得的乐趣就无法得到解释。
Another is that the pure investment Banks are packed with very highly paid, headstrong individuals who would be hard if not impossible to accommodate within any other company's culture.
另外一个原因是专业投资银行的员工个个薪酬丰厚、头脑固执，他们难以屈就企业文化与己不相适应的其它公司。
Whether with Ellen DeGeneres or with huge groups of schoolgirls in Mumbai or DC, it's impossible not to smile when you're shaking it. It would be silly even to try.
不管是与艾伦•德杰尼勒斯一起，还是在孟买或者华盛顿与一群学校女生一起，当你舞动的时候，不开心是不可能的。
It makes PCs harder - if not impossible - to upgrade, and it means if one component breaks - a graphic card, or the display - the whole thing's got to be hauled in to repair.
一体机的设计使得PC很难升级，而且意味着如果其中一个组件损坏，比如显卡或显示器，整个电脑都要被拖去修理。
In addition, it would be nearly impossible to explain them to the business manager who is not familiar with the terminology of XML schemas.
此外，要想向不熟悉XML模式术语的业务经理解释它们也几乎是不可能的。
In addition, it would be nearly impossible to explain them to the business manager who is not familiar with the terminology of XML schemas.
此外，要想向不熟悉XML模式术语的业务经理解释它们也几乎是不可能的。
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