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可能性
Possibility
When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
当你像我一样做了很多演讲，也像我一样说了很多话，而且你摆脱了文本的束缚时，总是有可能把一些单词弄得乱七八糟。
I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.
我从来没有想过要为失去一间办公室而哭泣，因为这总是有可能的，如果你是专业人士，你就会专业地处理这件事。
This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.
这种可能性让我感到困扰，因为我认为留在一个学术环境是不可取的，爱丁堡漫长而黑暗的冬天可能会相当沉闷。
In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
为了真正享受狗的快乐，人们不只是试图把它训练成半人半狗。这样做的目的是让自己有可能部分变成一只狗。
All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
好吧，每一天都不会是你生命中最美好的一天，别担心。如果你坚持下去，你就有可能拥有更好的日子。
Marimba is much more of a wood-type experience and there is no real possibility of getting a dry sound, and getting that contrast in the same way that you can in a vibraphone.
马林巴琴更多的是一种木琴式的体验，不可能发出干燥的声音，也不可能像颤音琴那样产生对比。
I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.
我给观众参与的可能性。观众通过思考来完成影片;那些观看视频的人绝不能仅仅是消费者，他们正在吞食着汤匙喂给他们的图像。
Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.
失业会削弱人们的信心和可能性;而且，雇主往往不公平地将长期失业视为出了问题的信号。
Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.
出生是一扇窗户的突然打开，透过它你可以看到一个惊人的前景。发生了什么事?一个奇迹。你没有拿任何东西来交换一切的可能性。
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.
诗歌喜剧对我来说很有趣，因为押韵对联的写作是一种挑战，这种形式通常不适合英语，但对我来说，它为喜剧提供了很大的可能性。
To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
满怀希望，拥抱一个又一个的可能性，这无疑是最基本的本能——呼喊:高潮!是时候搬到辉煌的废墟中去了。是时候接受现实了!
We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.
我们决定在体外试验，因为彼得和我都觉得我们不能再承受一次失败了。在那之后我流产了，我们不得不接受这样一种可能性，那就是这并不是命中注定的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?
我们当中有谁知道或可能了解支配我们财产和生命的法律?
The truth is that we live in a world that diminishes possibilities.
事实上，我们生活在一个可能性越来越小的世界里。
I'd always dreamt of acting but, in Adelaide, we don't have exposure to the opportunities that make stardom a possibility.
我一直梦想着演戏，但在阿德莱德，我们没有机会成为明星。
It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.
让我坚持下去的是可能性，而不是保证。
Don't demand from life but wait until life brings the good stuff. If only you're open for the possibilities.
不要对生活苛求，要等待生活带来美好的东西。只要你愿意接受各种可能性。
I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.
早在我考虑成为一名演员之前，我就是一名活动家。