"But it cannot be," he spluttered.

“但那不可能，”他结结巴巴地说。

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As a musician, you cannot be apolitical.

作为一位音乐家，你不能对政治不感兴趣。

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Surely my existence cannot be so purposeless?

想必，我的存在不可能如此毫无意义吧？

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Independent Russian military expert Alexander Golts says the situation suggests that security in the North Caucasus cannot be tightened further.

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The structural moment of concentration on the code for its own sake cannot be avoided, and literature necessarily breeds its own formalism.

集中在代码上的结构瞬间,因为它本身的原因不可避免，文学必要地导致了它自身的形式主义。

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De Man's point is a question is both rhetorical and grammatical, and the one cannot be reduced to the other. Both readings are available.

德曼想指出的是，一个问句既是修辞型问句又是语法型问句，那么一个不能变成另一个，两种理解都有效。

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We cannot be so willing to exclude someone from the protection that that document affords.

CNN: To ban mosque is to subvert Constitution

But, as my mother used to say, we cannot be expected to live in picturesque poverty.

BBC: The last piece of England

The need for embedding this Hayekian understanding of markets in the public consciousness cannot be overstated.

FORBES: The Fable Of Market Meritocracy