Predicting the return on the stock market over a few years is difficult if not impossible, but predicting it over the long term is easier.

即使可能，预测几年内的股市盈利是有困难的，但是预测长线回报则简单一些。

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Fifteen years on, memories are dimming of a cold November night when the impossible happened.

15年过去了，关于15年前那个11月的寒冷夜晚的记忆已渐渐模糊。但就在那个晚上，不可思议的事真的发生了。

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He should know. The BlackBerry itself would be impossible without theoretical insights developed 100 years ago by the first quantum physicists.

他也应该知道，没有100年前第一代量子物理学家所奠定的理论基础，如今就不可能有黑莓。

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"In recent years,these companies have become much more sophisticated, up to the point where it's impossible to tell the difference between the counterfeit cigarettes and the actual cigarettes."

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

The admiral says the situation in Iraq seemed impossible to resolve a few years ago, and,although the two countries are very different,and progress in Iraq is not a guarantee of progress in Afghanistan, it does give him reason to be hopeful about Afghanistan - even during the current period of heavy violence and at best,slow progress.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

We should feel sorry for the Greeks, because they have been asked to do the impossible over the last two years.

BBC: Should we feel sorry for Greece?

What we lose in the next two years may become impossible to rebuild in 10.

BBC: David Cameron aims to boost Big Society

Raising assets over the past two years was practically impossible and banks were unwilling to finance new deals.

FORBES: Buy These Small-Caps Before They Get Big