He was losing weight and telling friends that it seemed impossible to appease everyone - regulators, lawmakers, investors and other executives - given their competing demands.

他开始消瘦，并且和朋友们说，想要讨好各方看来根本没可能，监管当局、立法者、投资者以及其他管理人员都在争先恐后地提出他们的要求。

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Second, Britain has an impossible list of demands if there is a new treaty.

第二，如果拟定新条约，英国将会有一串不可思议的要求。

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And as a result, dealing with big data demands a level of database agility and changeability that is difficult or impossible to achieve using today's techniques alone.

结果，处理大数据需要一定程度的数据库敏捷性，以及难以或者甚至无法单独使用如今的技术实现的可变性。

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The essential problem is that the economics of the situation demands politically impossible things and the politics of the situation demand economically impossible things.

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If Obama can back the Republicans into looking like they pushed the U.S. off the cliff he will get them to agree his impossible demands baked into a form of Cliff Mutual Destruction Pact, get it delivered, secure a massive rebalance moment and blame the downside on the opposition.

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Second, Britain has an impossible list of demands if there is a new treaty.

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