| 词汇 | impossible |
| 释义 | impossible adjective uk /ɪmˈpɒs.ə.bəl/ us /ɪmˈpɑː.sə.bəl/ B1 If an action or event is impossible, it cannot happen or be achieved: （行动或事件）不可能的，办不到的 impossible toIt was impossible to sleep because of the noise.噪音太大，无法入睡。 impossible thatIt seems impossible that I could have walked by without noticing her.我似乎不太可能走过而没有注意到她。 He made it impossible for me to say no.他使我无法说不。 She ate three plates of spaghetti and a dessert? That's impossible. I don't believe it!她吃了三盘意大利面条和一份甜点？那不可能。我不信！ not able to be achieved impossibleThere's no way we'll be able to get the paperwork done in time – it's impossible. unachievableThere is no point in setting unachievable goals for yourself. unattainableThese bodybuilders are chasing an unattainable ideal – they'll never be as muscular as they want. unfeasibleIt would be unfeasible to try to ban all petrol vehicles at the moment. infeasibleThe company has promised a fully self-driving car in a year, but engineers say it is technically infeasible. not able to happen, exist, or be true impossibleYou can't be at my party and at work at the same time – it's impossible! be out of the questionGoing on holiday under these circumstances is out of the question. no wayThere is absolutely no way your mother will allow that. inconceivableIt's inconceivable that the president didn't know about the military attack. unthinkableA wide-scale nuclear attack is unthinkable. C2 An impossible situation is extremely difficult to deal with or solve: （境况）极其艰难的 It's an impossible situation - she's got to leave him but she can't bear losing her children.这是个极其艰难的处境——她必须离开他，但却舍不得孩子们。 C2 An impossible person behaves very badly or is extremely difficult to deal with: （人）坏透了的，极难对付的 I had to leave the job because my boss was impossible.我得辞职，因为我的老板实在是太差劲了。 My niece is impossible when she's tired - you can't do anything to please her.我侄女累的时候很难相处——你做什么也无法使她高兴。 It's broken into so many pieces, it'll be impossible to put it back together again . The signature was smudged and impossible to read. The ground was frozen hard and was impossible to dig.土地冻实了，根本挖不动。 Finding somewhere cheap to live in the city centre is an impossible task. No one could have climbed that wall - it's physically impossible.没有人能爬过那道墙，那是人力所办不到的。 Unachievable be (a) no goidiom be on a hiding to nothingidiom be on the road to nowhereidiom be out of your leagueidiom cat ghost goodbye impossibility impracticable impracticably in/out of the runningidiom infeasible league running silk unattainable unfeasible unfeasibly unrealizable unscalable You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Impossible and improbable Complicated and difficult to do Bad and wrong behaviour Related wordimpossibility impossible noun[ S ] uk /ɪmˈpɒs.ə.bəl/ us /ɪmˈpɑː.sə.bəl/ the impossible something that cannot be expected to happen or exist: 不可能的事物 ask the impossibleShe wants a man who is attractive and funny as well, which is asking the impossible in my opinion.她想找一个有魅力又风趣的男人，这在我看来是不可能的事。 Impossible and improbable apt aptness be out of the questionidiom be pissing in the windidiom beggar flimsily flimsiness goodbye goodbye to somethingidiom hopeless case impenetrably nail nohow not a chance not have a snowball's chance in hellidiom one in a millionidiom pig piss snowball unicorn impossible | American Dictionaryimpossible adjective us/ɪmˈpɑs·ə·bəl/ impossibleadjective (NOT POSSIBLE)[ not gradable ] unable to exist, happen, or be achieved; not possible: an impossible goal [ + to infinitive ]It’s almost impossible to get them to agree on anything. impossibleadjective (VERY DIFFICULT)very difficult to deal with: Traffic at rush hour is just impossible. Examples of impossibleimpossible Even with these trade-offs, it was impossible to gain acceptance of the concept by major developers, and even by social housing providers. Ideology may hinder or make impossible the project of making good sense of the past, of producing genuine pasts. In many cases, it is impossible to predict which particular conclusion a particular individual will draw from particular premises. Many remain active outdoors until this becomes impossible. The circularity was planned in the spiral design of the house to express a sense of the infinite, impossible to evade. Other roving stairs include external stairs front and back, almost impossible to locate on plan due to discrepancies between set design and location. Determining the stability or change of life satisfaction in the long run is therefore impossible. Trials where participants were not restricted to people with schizophrenia and from which it was impossible to extract results for this group were not included. An age determination of acanthocephalans appears to be impossible. People limit themselves to saying that under modern conditions direct democracy is impossible, therefore that representative democracy is necessary. Clearly it is impossible to expect every academic to see all the productions they might want to discuss in their work. Given the lack of a choreographic score, moment-by-moment comparison of music and movement is impossible. With opera, such triangulation is difficult, if not impossible to achieve. At this point, it seems impossible to decide between the two explanations. Cross-linguistic variation along this dimension makes it impossible to define a set of prelinguistic categories that would solve the child's learning problem. 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