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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shut in, however, by ice, it was impossible to follow his track, which we had observed with the greatest attention.
-- 'The sun rose; I heard the voices of men and knew that it was impossible to return to my retreat during that day.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was impossible to feel anything but palpitating joy in this warm sun, in this spring, with the chimneys ofTwelve Oaks just beginning to show on the hill across the river.
-- You who can love and hate with a violence impossible to me?
-- Two weeks!So short an engagement would have been impossible in timesof peace.
-- But the County with itsmemories was impossible now, and any change was welcome.
-- She would never have arrived at this eminence so early in life had not the exigenciesof war and the demands of the commissary department on Tara made it impossible for Ellen to spare Mammy or Dilceyor even Rosa or Teena.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once, I had been taken to see some ghastly waxwork at the Fair, representing I know not what impossible personage lying in state.
-- And it's impossible to say what he couldn't get, if he gave his mind to it."
-- It is impossible to express with what acuteness I felt the convict's breathing, not only on the back of my head, but all along my spine.
-- Proud and wilful as of old, she had brought those qualities into such subjection to her beauty that it was impossible and out of nature--or I thought so--to separate them from her beauty.
-- Truly it was impossible to dissociate her presence from all those wretched hankerings after money and gentility that had disturbed my boyhood,--from all those ill-regulated aspirations that had first made me ashamed of home and Joe,--from all those visions that had raised her face in the glowing fire, struck it out of the iron on the anvil, extracted it from the darkness of night to look in at the wooden window of the forge, and flit away.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She went as before to look for him, but he slept, and it was impossible to awaken him.
-- Again the next day he pursued his way through the forest, and that evening, thinking to rest again, he lay down as before, but he heard such a howling and wailing that he found it impossible to sleep.
-- When he saw that it was impossible to reach her, he was greatly 280 Grimms' Fairy Talesgrieved, and said to himself, 'I will remain here and wait for her,' so he built himself a little hut, and there he sat and watched for a whole year, and every day he saw the king's daughter driving round her castle, but still was unable to get nearer to her.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the workmen found it was impossible for me to break loose, they cut all the strings that bound me; whereupon I rose up, with as melancholy a disposition as ever I had in my life.
-- Now the buildings of the outer court were at least five feet high, and it was impossible for me to stride over them without infinite damage to the pile, though the walls were strongly built of hewn stone, and four inch-es thick.
-- They had seen me cut the cables, and thought my design was only to let the ships run adrift or fall foul on each other: but when they perceived the whole fleet moving in order, and saw me pulling at the end, they set up such a scream of grief and despair as it is almost impossible to de-scribe or conceive.
-- It was impossible for me to climb this stile, because every 100 Gulliver's Travelsstep was six-feet high, and the upper stone about twenty.
-- Here it was impossible for me to advance a step; for the stalks were so interwoven, that I could not creep through, and the beards of the fallen ears so strong and pointed, that they pierced through my clothes into my flesh.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Louisa denied Tom's participation in the offence; but her mother stopped her with the conclusive answer, 'Louisa, don't tell me, in my state of health; for unless you had been encouraged, it is morally and physically impossible that you could have done it.'
-- Her features were handsome; but their natural play was so locked up, that it seemed impossible to guess at their genuine expression.
-- It was a further singularity of this remarkable case, that the more she thought about it, the more impossible it appeared; 'the differences,' she observed, 'being such.'
-- Although it was hard to believe that her retiring for the night could be anything but a form, so severely wide awake were those classical eyes of hers, and so impossible did it seem that her rigid nose could yield to any relaxing influence, yet her manner of sitting, smoothing her uncomfortable, not to say, gritty mittens (they were constructed of a cool fabric like a meat-safe), or of ambling to unknown places of destination with her foot in her cotton stirrup, was so perfectly serene, that most observers would have been constrained to suppose her a dove, embodied by some freak of nature, in the earthly tabernacle of a bird of the hook-beaked order.
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