But not seeing how it's possible is not the same thing as seeing that it's impossible.

但现阶段无法预见其可能,并不代表永远不可能

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What I want to say is, "No, I don't see that it's impossible.

但我想说的是,不,我不认为那是不可能的

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For Plato" he says "also is of the opinion that it is impossible for the disorders of the state ever to be taken away until sovereigns be philosophers."

对于柏拉图，他说道,也相信只有当一国君王,自己成为了哲学家,才可能将一国的纷乱扫尽“

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The incentive in Washington is such that it's virtually impossible to cut spending unless you can go to the voters " and say "We don't have the money."

政府的机制就是这样,削减财政开支，几乎不可能,除非你有勇气对选民说,“政府没钱了“

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Oftentimes, inventions that seem, in the abstract, to be good ideas may be impossible because something that you have to do to make it actually come into practice is too expensive and so it's not economic to produce the invention.

通常在理论上,创新固然不错,但却很难实现,因为把创意变成现实,花费会相当的昂贵,实现这样的创意非常不合算

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People sometimes say, since it's impossible to picture being dead, it's impossible to picture being dead--, That is to say, it's impossible to picture your own being dead.

人们有时说，因为死亡难以想象，难以想象也就是说，无法想象你自己的死亡。

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For if I say that this is to disobey the god and because of this it is impossible to keep quiet, you will not be persuaded by me on the grounds that I am being ironic.

因为假设我说那是违悖神意,所以我无法保静默，你们不会被我说服,反而会以为我语带讽刺；

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