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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The dreams of childhood its airy fables; its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond: so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown, for then the least among them rises to the stature of a great Charity in the heart, suffering little children to come into the midst of it, and to keep with their pure hands a garden in the stony ways of this world, wherein it were better for all the children of Adam that they should oftener sun themselves, simple and trustful, and not worldly-wise what had she to do with these?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My uncle walked about the room in a state of excitement almost impossible to describe.
-- It was impossible to dispute the dictatorial commands of my uncle.
-- Why these arms were provided it was impossible for me to say.
-- To make up the exact list of our traveling gear--for the guidance of future travelers--add, that we carried a medicine and surgical chest with all apparatus necessary for wounds, fractures and blows; lint, scissors, lancets--in fact, a perfect collection of horrible looking instruments; a number of vials containing ammonia, alcohol, ether, Goulard water, aromatic vinegar, in fact, every possible and impossible drug--finally, all the materials for working the Ruhmkorff coil!
-- He moves so little that it is impossible for him to become fatigued.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was really very glad to get him...its almost impossible to find a good man round here for a gamekeeper...and it needs a man who knows the people.'
-- Connie found it impossible to come to her crisis before he had really finished his.
-- It had been impossible to find a man in the Jerusalem of the prophet, though there were thousands of male humans.
-- She took the little drab thing between her hands, and there it stood, on its impossible little stalks of legs, its atom of balancing life trembling through its almost weightless feet into Connie's hands.
-- Anything more unlike song, spontaneous song, would be impossible to imagine: a strange bawling yell that followed the outlines of a tune.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was equally impossible to do the plainest right and to undo the plainest wrong without the express authority of the Circumlocution Office.
-- He was one of those many wayfarers on the road of life, who seem to be afflicted with supernatural corns, rendering it impossible for them to keep up even with their lame competitors.
-- It's impossible to forget,' turning his hands over and over and looking closely at them, 'that hem! that in such a life as mine, I am unfortunately dependent on these men for something every hour in the day.'
-- Despite his presence of mind, however, the speech of Mr F.'s Aunt produced a depressing effect on the little assembly; firstly, because it was impossible to disguise that Clennam's unoffending head was the particular temple of reason depreciated; and secondly, because nobody ever knew on these occasions whose Uncle George was referred to, or what spectral presence might be invoked under that appellation.
-- He found her a courtly old lady, formerly a Beauty, and still sufficiently well-favoured to have dispensed with the powder on her nose and a certain impossible bloom under each eye.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Laurie turned red again, but wasn't offended at being ac-cused of bashfulness, for there was so much good will in Jo it was impossible not to take her blunt speeches as kindly as they were meant.
-- During one of the brief calls he made, he artfully led the conversation to music, and talked away about great singers whom he had seen, fine or-gans he had heard, and told such charming anecdotes that Beth found it impossible to stay in her distant corner, but crept nearer and nearer, as if fascinated.
-- 'Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and nev-er think it is impossible to conquer your fault,' said Mrs. March, drawing the blowzy head to her shoulder and kiss-ing the wet cheek so tenderly that Jo cried even harder.
-- We had a flurry getting the old lady off, and I had a fright every time she spoke to me, for I was in such a hurry to be through that I was uncommonly helpful and sweet, and feared she'd find it impossible to part from me.
-- If he asked her to deliver a Latin oration, it would not have seemed a more impossible task to bashful Beth, but there was no place to run to, no Jo to hide behind now, and the poor boy looked so wistfully at her that she bravely re-solved to try.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Yet we have seen that by his baleen it is impossible correctly to classify the Greenland whale.
-- An uncommon large whale, the body of which was larger than the ship itself, lay almost at the surface of the water, but was not perceived by any one on board till the moment when the ship, which was in full sail, was almost upon him, so that it was impossible to prevent its striking against him.
-- The living whale, in his full majesty and significance, is only to be seen at sea in unfathomable waters; and afloat the vast bulk of him is out of sight, like a launched line-of-battle ship; and out of that element it is a thing eternally impossible for mortal man to hoist him bodily into the air, so as to preserve all his mighty swells and undulations.
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