"And I long for the day when that modifier can be a moot point, but I'm ever grateful if I can inspire some young intrepid tenacious male or female filmmaker, and have them feel that the impossible is possible.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Today I have the impossible task of finishing the parts of the Republic that I have assigned for the class.

今天我有个不可能的任务,完成《理想国》剩余的部份,依照我指定给同学的进度。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

What's distinctive about the South: "The South has a tradition," Said Gurganus, "Of attempting the impossible at great cost, proudly celebrating the failure, and in gaining admiration for the performance."

写的是南方的独特之处,"南方有种传统",古尔加努斯说,"付出巨大的代价挑战命运,即便失败仍非常自豪,并因此而为他人所尊敬"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

And,she believes in the strength of the human spirit which allows people to reach goals which might otherwise seem impossible.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

"The impossible made possible".

不可能成为可能。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

It would be impossible to explain the entire debate, so we will just tell a few stories about some great artists.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

These are unquestionably strong words, and I think it's impossible for us to overestimate the weight of these words.

毫无疑问，这些言辞非常激烈，我觉得,怎么高估它们的分量都不过分。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The vehicle is helping scientists to see for the first time huge areas underneath the lake that were otherwise impossible to explore.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

So what was your feeling there when you were, of course it's impossible to escape the Israeli-Palestinian conflict when you were in Israel especially. -Yeah.

那么你在以色列的时候又怎样的感觉？,你当然不可能避免巴以冲突,特别是当你在以色列的时候，-是的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It was impossible for him to pay the government three hundred dollars or pay someone else to serve for him in the army.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

We would know as a fact that George Washington threw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock River, except that it's impossible.

我们知道乔治华盛顿曾将一枚银币抛过,拉帕汉诺克河,但这明显是不可能的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

They said it would be impossible to get supplies to a large army east of the river.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

Distorting price signals , making it impossible for the market to respond as it otherwise would have .

扭曲价格信息，让市场无法正常反应,无法在正常市场机制下运行。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

He said it was impossible to overstate the influence Genesis had on him as a young musician.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

So you can see that we're starting to have a very complicated equation, and it turns out that it's mathematically impossible to even solve the exact Schrodinger equation as we move up to higher numbers of electrons.

所有你们可以看到我们得到了,一个非常复杂的方程，结果是它在数学上是,不可能解出确定的,薛定谔方程,当我们考虑更高的电子数目的时候。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Thats a really big deal. Without it, anything like the modern stock market, I'd say,is impossible."

VOA: special.2010.03.05

But not seeing how it's possible is not the same thing as seeing that it's impossible.

但现阶段无法预见其可能,并不代表永远不可能

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Travel was impossible during the four year American Civil War that began in eighteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

If it's not clear, the problem is going to be impossible to solve.

问题也就不可能，得到解决。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

She soon found it was impossible to keep the office open without more financial support.

VOA: special.2011.06.12

For Plato" he says "also is of the opinion that it is impossible for the disorders of the state ever to be taken away until sovereigns be philosophers."

对于柏拉图，他说道,也相信只有当一国君王,自己成为了哲学家,才可能将一国的纷乱扫尽“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

This was it. What could be an impossible effort in the history of spaceflight was ready to lift off on its final chance for success.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

If you have a computer that plays chess and you want to explain how the computer plays chess, it's impossible to do so without talking about the programs and mechanisms inside the computer.

如果你有一台能下国际象棋的计算机,你想要解释计算机是如何下国际象棋的，如果你不谈程序以及计算机的内部结构,那你就不能对它如何下国际象棋,给出解释。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Annetta Cheek says the terms of use for a Blackberry are impossible to understand.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

It's true, these questions have been debated for a very long time but the very fact that they have recurred and persisted may suggest that though they're impossible in one sense, they're unavoidable in another.

诚然，这些问题争论已久,但正因为这些问题反复出现,也许表明，虽然在某种意义上它们无法解决，但另一种意义上，却又无可避免。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

It is almost impossible to visit all the Vatican collections in one day.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

He says, "to succeed in many things or many times is 'difficult.' For instance, to repeat the same throw of dice 10,000 times would be impossible; whereas, to make it once or twice is comparatively easy."

他说,要成就很多事情,或成就一件事情很多次,是很困难的,比如,掷一万次骰子都得到同样的结果,是不可能的,但是,掷一两次却是相对容易的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It tells how some people can survive the most impossible situations imaginable.

VOA: special.2011.05.04

According to the Second Brother, it's virtually impossible for a single, helpless maiden to pass uninjured in this wild, surrounding waste.

弟弟认为，一个孤独无助的女孩想要，毫发无伤的穿过这野外的荒原是根本不可能的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's impossible to get away with such an awkward reading, but that's the reading that the metrical form is pushing us into producing.

但不得不读的这么这么别扭,抑扬格的韵律格式迫使我们这样读。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选