impossible是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 不可能的; 难以忍受的, 很难对付的,这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢,今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But reflecting that it would be impossible to take it back now and that in any case he would not have taken it, he dismissed it with a wave of his hand and went back to his lodging.
-- Indeed it was impossible to be on any other terms with Razumihin.
-- It was impossible for him to carry the axe through the street in his hands.
-- The minute was so chosen that it was impossible to refuse, and the visitor squeezed his way through, hurrying and stumbling.
-- She realised, too, that even running away was per-haps impossible now.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It's impossible to bear it.
-- (it is really impossible toexpress how he twisted this ejaculation out of himself, as hepeeped round the door-post at me, showing nothing but his craftyold head;) 'will you go for fourpence?'
-- She sat at work in the window, and I sat by, with my thoughtsrunning astray on all possible and impossible results of Mr.Murdstone's visit, until pretty late in the afternoon.
-- Steerforth laughed to that degree, that it was impossible for me tohelp laughing too; though I am not sure I should have done so, butfor this inducement.
-- He said it was impossible to conceal the 361disagreeable fact, that we were chiefly employed by solicitors; buthe gave me to understand that they were an inferior race of men,universally looked down upon by all proctors of any pretensions.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Emma smiled and chatted as cheerfully as she could, to keep him from such thoughts; but when tea came, it was impossible for him not to say exactly as he had said at dinner, 'Poor Miss Taylor! I wish she were here again.
-- 'It is impossible that Emma should not miss such a companion,' said Mr. Knightley.
-- Mrs. Martin had told her one day (and there was a blush as she said it,) that it was impossible for any body to be a better son, and therefore she was sure, whenever he mar-ried, he would make a good husband.
-- Whatever money he might come into when his father died, whatever his share of the family property, it is, I dare say, all afloat, all employed in his stock, and so forth; and though, with diligence and good luck, he may be rich in time, it is next to impossible that he should have realised any thing yet.'
-- It was impossible to say how much he should be gratified by being employed on such an 58 Emmaerrand.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was not a bridle-path merely a pedestrian's track, and the boughs spread horizontally at a height not greater than seven feet above the ground, which made it impossible to ride erect beneath them.
-- Inward melancholy it was impossible for a man like Oak, introspective far beyond his neighbours, to banish quite, whilst conning the present untoward page of his history.
-- Boldwood thought her beautiful, but wondered whether he was right in his thought, for it seemed impossible that this romance in the flesh, if so sweet as he imagined, could have been going on long without creating a commotion of delight among men, and provoking more inquiry than Bathsheba had done, even though that was not a little.
-- It was impossible to send this letter till the next day; yet to quell her uneasiness by getting it out of her hands, and so, as it were, setting the act in motion at once, she arose to take it to any one of the women who might be in the kitchen.
-- Whether Newfoundland, mastiff, bloodhound, or what not, it was impossible to say.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The only audience who could appreciate the results of close observation, the careful reproduction of minute detail and local color, are dwellers between the heights of Montrouge and Montmartre, in a vale of crumbling stucco watered by streams of black mud, a vale of sorrows which are real and joys too often hollow; but this audience is so accustomed to terrible sensations, that only some unimaginable and well-neigh impossible woe could produce any lasting impression there.
-- It would be impossible to give an idea of the old, rotten, shaky, cranky, worm-eaten, halt, maimed, one-eyed, rickety, and ramshackle condition of the furniture without an exhaustive description, which would delay the progress of the story to an extent that impatient people would not pardon.
-- Besides, I am confessing my sins, and it would be impossible to kneel in a more charming confessional; you commit your sins in one drawing-room, and receive absolution for them in another."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is impossible to communicate to you a conception of the trembling sensation, half plea-surable and half fearful, with which I am preparing to depart.
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