Impossibility

(noun.) an alternative that is not available.

(noun.) incapability of existing or occurring.

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• In the man's problem, the growing impossibility of early marriages is directly related to the business situation. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The organization was crude, the steam-engineering talent poor, and owing to the impossibility of getting any considerable capital subscribed, the plants were put in as cheaply as possible. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The boilers were fired by wood, as the economical transportation of coal was a physical impossibility. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• If Ellen had consented to come and live with her grandmother it must surely be because she had recognised the impossibility of giving him up. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The impossibility of obtaining a uniform concentrate was a most serious objection, had there not indeed been other difficulties which rendered this method commercially impracticable. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• To effect a retreat would have been an impossibility. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It seems an impossibility! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• And that others should approve, of what we approve, is no miracle or impossibility? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• It is now so bulky that the impossibility of any one man's coming into possession of it all is obvious. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Such an inference would amount to knowledge, and would imply the absolute contradiction and impossibility of conceiving any thing different. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The middle ages were times of improbability, not of impossibility, for but little was known of the geographical world. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Sir Isaac Newton had stated, and mathematical computations had proved his words, that a mechanical flying-machine was an impossibility. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• There is no impossibility in all this; that there is a difficulty, we acknowledge ourselves. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• But then the impossibility of the thing obtruded itself upon me. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• How do we separate this impossibility from an improbability? 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• It is impossible, it is one of the impossibilities of life, for me to take my clothes off now and jump in. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• And if you ask me to give you, what you never gave me, my gratitude and duty cannot do impossibilities. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• This last was, by-the-bye, a very foolish idea, but a nervous woman will often fancy impossibilities, and that was my case. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Who would have thought, then, of my ever teaching people to dance, of all other possibilities and impossibilities! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Go away, sir, and don't ask impossibilities. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Don't fret about impossibilities. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.

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