impossibility是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 不可能性，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lake was not frozen sufficiently to bear her; neither was it open, nor low enough that she could wade through it; and across it she must go if she would find her child!Then she lay down to drink up the lake, and that was an impossibility for a human being, but the afflicted mother thought that a miracle might happen nevertheless.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had only to recall his brother's wife, to remember how that sweet, delightful Varya sought, at every convenient opportunity, to remind him that she remembered his generosity and appreciated it, to grasp the impossibility of taking back his gift.
-- "Then I must trouble you to give him my card," Alexey Alexandrovitch said with dignity, seeing the impossibility of preserving his incognito.
-- Never had the impossibility of his position in the world's eyes, and his wife's hatred of him, and altogether the might of that mysterious brutal force that guided his life against his spiritual inclinations, and exacted conformity with its decrees and change in his attitude to his wife, been presented to him with such distinctness as that day.
-- At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware in himself, did not in the least hinder his turning to God.
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：
-- A little more, and their companionship, this mother and this sister, with him after three years' absence, this intimate tone of conversation, in face of the utter impossibility of re-ally speaking about anything, would have been beyond his power of endurance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no noise, no effort, noconsciousness, in anything he did; but in everything anindescribable lightness, a seeming impossibility of doing anythingelse, or doing anything better, which was so graceful, so natural,and agreeable, that it overcomes me, even now, in theremembrance.
-- But the agony of mind, the remorse, and shame I felt, when Ibecame conscious next day!My horror of having committed athousand offences I had forgotten, and which nothing could everexpiate- my recollection of that indelible look which Agnes hadgiven me- the torturing impossibility of communicating with her,not knowing, beast that I was, how she came to be in London, orwhere she stayed- my disgust of the very sight of the room wherethe revel had been heldmy racking head- the smell of smoke, thesight of glasses, the impossibility of going out, or even getting up!
-- After tea we had the guitar; and Dora sang those same dear oldFrench songs about the impossibility of ever on any accountleaving off dancing, La ra la, La ra la, until I felt a much greaterMonster than before.
-- The shock of such an event happeningso suddenly, and happening to one with whom I had been in anyrespect at variance- the appalling vacancy in the room he hadoccupied so lately, where his chair and table seemed to wait forhim, and his handwriting of yesterday was like a ghost- theindefinable impossibility of separating him from the place, andfeeling, when the door opened, as if he might come in- the lazyhush and rest there was in the office, and the insatiable relish withwhich our people talked about it, and other people came in and outall day, and gorged themselves with the subject- this is easilyintelligible to any one.
-- Sweeping gustsof rain came up before this storm, like showers of steel; and, atthose times, when there was any shelter of trees or lee walls to begot, we were fain to stop, in a sheer impossibility of continuing thestruggle.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The impossibility of her quitting her father, Mr. Knightley felt as strongly as herself; but the inadmissibility of any other change, he could not agree to.
-- 'Oh!no, the meeting is certainly to-day,' was the abrupt answer, which denoted the impossibility of any blunder on Mrs. Elton's side. 'I do believe,' she continued, 'this is the most troublesome parish that ever was.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another.
-- Whether it was suggested by Bathsheba's recent act of promotion or not, the farmer proposed at the interview that Gabriel should undertake the superintendence of the Lower Farm as well as of Bathsheba's, because of the necessity Boldwood felt for such aid, and the impossibility of discovering a more trustworthy man.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shutting of the gates regularly at ten o'clock and the impossibility of remaining on the lake after that hour had rendered our resi-dence within the walls of Geneva very irksome to me.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She lay in thesilvery shadows with courage rising and made the plans that a sixteen-year-old makes when life has been so pleasantthat defeat is an impossibility and a pretty dress and a clear complexion are weapons to vanquish fate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The impossibility of keeping him concealed in the chambers was self-evident.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had almost begun to hope that which I should rather have feared, and this was the impossibility of such a shipwreck leaving even the slightest signs of what it had carried as freight.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I pointed out to your sister the plain state of the case; the impossibility of the Society in which we moved recognising the Society in which she moved though charming, I have no doubt; the immense disadvantage at which she would consequently place the family she had so high an opinion of, upon which we should find ourselves compelled to look down with contempt, and from which (socially speaking) we should feel obliged to recoil with abhorrence.
-- And the impossibility of bringing anything that one wants to this inaccessible place, and the necessity of leaving every comfort behind, is not convenient.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For besides the great length of the whaling voyage, the numerous articles peculiar to the prosecution of the fishery, and the impossibility of replacing them at the remote harbors usually frequented, it must be remembered, that of all ships, whaling vessels are the most exposed to accidents of all kinds, and especially to the destruction and loss of the very things upon which the success of the voyage most depends.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So far as an overpowering heaviness, a prostration of strength, and an utter inability to control our thoughts or power of motion, can be called sleep, this is it; and yet, we have a consciousness of all that is going on about us, and, if we dream at such a time, words which are really spoken, or sounds which really exist at the moment, accommodate themselves with surprising readiness to our visions, until reality and imagination become so strangely blended that it is afterwards almost matter of impossibility to separate the two.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The insipidity of the meeting was exactly such as Elinor had expected; it produced not one novelty of thought or expression, and nothing could be less interesting than the whole of their discourse both in the dining parlour and drawing room: to the latter, the children accompanied them, and while they remained there, she was too well convinced of the impossibility of engaging Lucy's attention to attempt it.
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