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It wasn't possible for the boy to swim across the river.
少年がその川を泳いで渡ることは不可能だった。
This large sofa would be out of place in a small room.
この大きなソファーは小さな部屋には不似合いだろう。
Taken by surprise, I couldn't think of anything to say.
不意を討たれて私は何も言う事を思い付かなかった。
We've run short of oil.
われわれは石油が不足している。
It's next to impossible to finish it in a day.
それを1日で終えるのはほとんど不可能だ。
On a nice spring day, when Jan was digging in the sandbox in the backyard, he found a small box. In the box was a shining switchblade with a mysterious inscription.
Only if there's a cancellation, and that would be a bolt out of the blue.
キャンセルが出ればですが、ほとんど不可能に近いと思います。
The data is often inaccurate.
データはしばしば不正確だ。
Filth breeds illnesses.
不潔は病気を生み出す。
Air is indispensable to life.
空気は、生命にとって不可欠である。
In present day Japan, "alchemy" is only used metaphorically; to refer to improper means of making money by politicians or religious hucksters with no morals or shame.
The severe housing shortage is partly to blame for the inflated rents.
厳しい住宅不足は1つには暴騰した家賃のせいである。
It is strange that he should have refused the offer.
彼がその申し出を拒んだのは不思議だ。
I am inconvenienced when my wife is away.
妻がいないと何かと不自由だ。
It is next to impossible to see Rome in a day.
1日でローマを見て回るのは不可能に近い。
The verb 'help' takes to-infinitives and bare infinitives but bare infinitives are said to be the most common in casual text; as also used in this example sentence.
Missing for years, the document miraculously came to light the other day.
その書類は何年も所在が分からなくなっていたが、不思議にも先日出てきた。
She could divert herself from the anxieties.
彼女は様々の不安から気を紛らわせることができた。
It is strange that you should know that.
あなたがそれを知っているのは不思議だ。
Chokichi keenly felt that people, as they get older, forget entirely about the worries that only young people know about and that they themselves experienced in their youth; and that they nonchalantly take this convenient disposition where they judge hars