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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He seemed quite insensible now to the danger they had escaped through the departure of the wolves, and would have hastened immediately after Robert if the Indian had not kept him back by making him understand the impossibility of their horses overtaking Thaouka; and also that boy and horse had outdistanced the wolves long since, and that it would be useless going to look for them till daylight.
-- Paganel himself saw the impossibility of it, and confessed to the Major, who raised a discussion on the subject, that his hypothesis would be altogether illogical in Australia.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Without adverting to the impossibility of the other's comprehending those feelings which were hid in his own bosom, Munro suf-fered himself to be appeased by the unaltered countenance he met, and with a voice sensibly softened, he continued: 'You would be my son, Duncan, and you're ignorant of the history of the man you wish to call your father.
-- Monsieur would wish to see my camp, and witness for himself our numbers, and the impossibility of his resisting them with success?'
-- Their common superior, so far from encouraging them to resist, advised a speedy surrender, urging in the plainest language, as a reason, the utter impossibility of his sending a single man to their rescue.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His mother was not a little startled on learning what service was required of her, and presently fell into a confusion of ideas, of which the most prominent were that it was a great honour and dignity to ride in a post-chaise, and that it was a moral impossibility to leave the children behind.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "You see what variety of duties I have," said Anatal, smiling and pointing at his wife, thereby expressing the impossibility of resisting that bewitching person.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Under the impossibility of forming an opinion, I jumped from one extreme to the other.
-- In thus acting, I take all the responsibility: I acquit you entirely, for I make it an impossibility for you to see what ought not to be seen.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In a short time Elinor saw Willoughby quit the room by the door towards the staircase, and telling Marianne that he was gone, urged the impossibility of speaking to him again that evening, as a fresh argument for her to be calm.
-- Sometimes she could believe Willoughby to be as unfortunate and as innocent as herself, and at others, lost every consolation in the impossibility of acquitting him.
-- Had it been ten, Elinor would have been convinced that at that moment she heard a carriage driving up to the house; and so strong was the persuasion that she DID, in spite of the ALMOST impossibility of their being already come, that she moved into the adjoining dressing-closet and opened a window shutter, to be satisfied of the truth.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Behold, the whole fabric of doubt and impossibility had slipped from her mind.
-- She was stirred by this thought, angered by that--her own injustice, Hurstwood's, Drouet's, their respective qualities of kindness and favour, the threat of the world outside, in which she had failed once before, the impossibility of this state inside, where the chambers were no longer justly hers, the effect of the argument upon her nerves, all combined to make her a mass of jangling fibres--an anchorless, storm-beaten little craft which could do absolutely nothing but drift.
-- It was fostered by the demands of creditors and the impossibility of holding up many more.
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