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单词 impossibility
释义
impossibility
noun[CorU]
uk
/ɪmˌpɒs.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/us
/ɪmˌpɑː.səˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
C2
something that isimpossibleto do, or thestateof beingimpossible:
不可能做到的事情，不可能的状况
What you'reaskingjust can't be done - it's an impossibility.你的要求无法办到，绝对不可能。
Shefinallyacknowledgedthe impossibility ofkeepingherboyfriendsecret.她最后意识到，要想隐瞒自己有男朋友这件事，这是不可能的。
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impossible
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  • Viewing anactualatomwas liketryingtotouchthesun, aphysicalimpossibility.
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  • Recognizing the impossibility ofattainingtheiridealsinEngland, theyplannedtosettleinAmerica.
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(Definition ofimpossibilityfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

impossibility| American Dictionary

impossibility
noun[C]
us
/ɪmˌpɑs·əˈbɪl·ɪ·t̬i/
something that is notpossible:
What you’reaskingfor is an impossibility.
(Definition ofimpossibilityfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofimpossibility

impossibility
Well, perhaps there is none, if it is some bare logical or metaphysicalimpossibilitythat is being asked about.
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We are thus dealing with animpossibilitythat can only ever be instantiated or 'positivized' approximately.
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States referred to the diversity of indigenous peoples and the consequent difficulty, evenimpossibility, of a universal definition.
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What it does make perfectly clear is theimpossibilityof humanity's well-being under capitalism, and why.
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The main problem is then the practicalimpossibilityto compute all combinations for even relatively small corpora.
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Instead, they examine the much narrower question of whether pre-vote deliberation can help avoid social-choicetheoreticimpossibilityresults.
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Theimpossibilityof human persons beginning to exist more than once yields a bump in the physicalist's road to an afterlife.
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She is referring to theimpossibilityof their future lives together; they enjoy thinking about it, but know that it won't work.
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The evident character of intuitive knowledge contrasts with theimpossibilityof passing this knowledge on or of explaining it.
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The writing of 1848-52 'knows' theimpossibilityof its ambition to find an audience, to be properly heard.
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Theimpossibilityof satisfying desire, of filling the lack, of having the ideal beloved, is the fatality to which the empirical self is doomed.
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Needless to say, this idea of a reception-politics has its own problems : on one set of assumptions, indeed, it amounts to a dangerousimpossibility.
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But if he illustrates theimpossibilityof objective historical inquiry, then the loss to historiography is the gain of political thought.
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The whole issue needs be approached in a practical, positive spirit, considering spelling reform as an international opportunity, not an internationalimpossibility.
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This book is important because it reminds us that wilderness protection requires timely and visionary action before it becomes a political and materialimpossibility.
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