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impossibility

/im-pos-uh-bil-i-tee, im-pos-/US // ɪmˌpɒs əˈbɪl ɪ ti, ˌɪm pɒs- //UK // (ɪmˌpɒsəˈbɪlɪtɪ, ˌɪmpɒs-) //

不可能,不可能的事,不可能的,不可能性

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural im·pos·si·bil·i·ties for 2.

    • : condition or quality of being impossible.
    • : something impossible.

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Examples

  • Its validity depended on the impossibility of keeping track of trillions and trillions of molecules, something no real demon, or human, could manage.

  • Others stick with him because of the impossibility of their survival.

  • What was pitched as a celebratory aggregation of my listening habits over the previous 12 months exited the machine as a testament to the long stretches of time where engaging with music felt like an impossibility.

  • To consider impossibility, we need to understand that just asserting that a thing exists doesn’t make it so.

  • In short, quantum tunneling seemed to allow faster-than-light travel, a supposed physical impossibility.

  • The smartest book ever written about the impossibility of direct communication.

  • So in other words, if "only" 70 senators support the bill--a total impossibility--the House might just blow it off.

  • Immigration reform is an absolute political necessity for the post-Romney GOP, but it may very well be a primary impossibility.

  • Scores are never settled, and getting even becomes both a psychological and mathematical impossibility.

  • The magnificent ambition is fundamentally reliant upon the indelible impossibility of its fulfillment.

  • Here is a thing sternly condemned in the older thought as an economic impossibility.

  • To beach the boat, land the horses, and get the young ladies ashore in safety, had become an absolute impossibility.

  • In fact, he had placed himself in so unsatisfactory a position as to render anything but bad news next door to an impossibility.

  • The impossibility of continuing united to Portugal had become daily more apparent.

  • His mind cannot grasp the impossibility of suicide before I have explained to the People the motive and purpose of my act.