喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a door that simply will not open no matter how hard you push — there is no way through. That 'no way, can't be done' wall is the core; the harder, more everyday uses are about things or people that feel like that wall even when they're not literally undoable.

可以想成一扇門，不管你多用力推都推不開——根本沒有路可以過去。這個「沒辦法、做不到」的牆是核心畫面；其他比較生活化的…更多收起可以想成一扇門，不管你多用力推都推不開——根本沒有路可以過去。這個「沒辦法、做不到」的牆是核心畫面；其他比較生活化的用法，講的是那些讓你覺得像撞上這道牆的處境或人，即使它們不是真的完全做不到。

From the picture

難到應付不來

從「真的做不到」放軟一階：事情或人不是字面上辦不成，而是難到讓你應付不來、像撞上同一道牆，所以借用同一個字來形容那種無力感。

unmanageable, too difficult · adjective · B1

Describing a situation that is so hard that you cannot deal with it well.

難以應付的

Also in this word

impossible, cannot be done · adjective · B1

Not able to happen or be done, no matter how hard you try.

不可能的

the impossible (as a thing) · noun · B1

In 'the impossible', it means something that cannot be done.

不可能的事

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

impossibleadj/ɪmˈpɒs.ɪ.bəl/

  • 1

    Not possible; not able to be done or happen.

    • Antonio: What impossible matter will he make easy next? Sebastian: I think he will carry this island home in his pocket and give it his son for an apple. Antonio : And sowing the kernels of it in the sea bring forth more islands.
    • It was impoſſible that the queen of France [Marie Antoinette] ſhould not be deeply affected by a conteſt, which ſo cloſely involved her neareſt and deareſt connections, and threatened ſo immediate and perhaps irreparable a breach of the harmony and friendſhip ſubſiſting between them.
  • 2

    Very difficult to deal with.

    • You never listen to a word I say – you're impossible!
    • This humidity is impossible.
  • 3

    datedmathematicssciencesimaginary

    • impossible quantities, or imaginary numbers

impossiblenoun/ɪmˈpɒs.ɪ.bəl/

  • 1

    An impossibility.

    • In fact, to most people, the real impossibles do not seem impossible, or wonderful, or even difficult at all.
    • “Ye can't expect impossibles, and Jim hadn't no idee o' takin' yer trunk along of him in ther buggy when he kem hyar this mornin'.
  • 2

    A skateboard trick consisting of a backflip performed in midair.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。