Yet, Mr Bellos says, the concept of a word itself is almost impossible to define.

然而巴洛斯先生说，一个词语本身的概念几乎是不可能被定义的。

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The word sketchy here is not pejorative because millennia of philosophy of language have shown how hard (or even impossible) it is to come up with a truly rigorous model of natural language.

这里说粗略并非轻视，因为数千年来的语言哲学表明要建立自然语言真正严格意义上的模型是很难的(甚至是不可能的)。

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The whole barricade hastened up, then all ranged themselves in a circle at a distance, feeling that it was impossible to utter a word in the presence of the thing which they were about to behold.

整个街垒里的人全跑来了，他们远远地站成一个圈子，心里都感到自己对那即将见到的事无法进一言。

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The chances of finding a job after the age of 45 and up are so slim that the word "impossible" is not such an exaggeration.

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Yet, Mr Bellos says, the concept of a word itself is almost impossible to define.

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"He does not take no for an answer and the word impossible is not in his vocabulary, " says Akel Bitaji, chief commissioner of the Aqaba Special Economic Authority.

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