| 单词 | impossible |
| 释义 | impossible (once / 51 pages) 1adjn 2adj Something that's impossible can't be done. If you want to stop eating donuts but you just can't, you might say it's impossible. If it's impossible, it cannot happen, or it doesn't exist. You might wish you could bring Abraham Lincoln back to life for a day so he could come to tea, but that's impossible. People use the word impossible to mean "out of reach" or "too hard to achieve." A terrible situation can be impossible, and so can a person who refuses to compromise or seems intent on making things difficult for everyone else. WORD FAMILYimpossible: impossibility, impossibleness, impossibles, impossiblest, impossibly+/impossibility: impossibilities/possibility: possibilities/possible: impossible, possibility, possiblely, possibleness, possibles, possibly/possibly: possiblys USAGE EXAMPLESIt may be impossible to draw a single thread through every performance to neatly cinch together a great actress’s legacy. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) They found that, by 2070, if worldwide emissions aren’t sufficiently reduced, the Persian Gulf would experience heat waves impossible for many humans to survive. The New Yorker(Jan 02, 2017) Or to state the matter more bluntly: If U.S. backing for Israel was absent, peace became impossible. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1adj not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with an impossible dream an impossible situation Syn|Ant hopeless without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success hopelesscertain to fail impracticable, infeasible, unfeasible, unworkablenot capable of being carried out or put into practice outnot worth considering as a possibility unachievable, unattainable, undoable, unrealizableimpossible to achieve impracticalnot practical; not workable or not given to practical matters unrealisticnot realistic insurmountable, unsurmountablenot capable of being surmounted or overcome unthinkableincapable of being conceived or considered possible capable of happening or existing likelyhas a good chance of being the case or of coming about accomplishable, achievable, doable, manageable, realizablecapable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do affirmable, assertablecapable of being affirmed or asserted attainable, come-at-ablecapable of being attained or accomplished contingentpossible but not certain to occur executable, feasible, practicable, viable, workablecapable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are mathematicalstatistically possible though highly improbable practicalconcerned with actual use or practice realisticaware or expressing awareness of things as they really are thinkablecapable of being conceived or imagined or considered 2adj totally unlikely Syn inconceivable, out of the question, unimaginable unthinkable incapable of being conceived or considered 3n something that cannot be done 2his assignment verged on the impossible Hyper impossibility, impossible action an alternative that is not available adj used of persons or their behavior impossible behavior Syn insufferable, unacceptable, unsufferable intolerable, unbearable, unendurable incapable of being put up with |
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