Impracticable

(adj.) not capable of being carried out or put into practice; 'refloating the sunken ship proved impracticable because of its fragility'; 'a suggested reform that was unfeasible in the prevailing circumstances' .

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• Is this ideal at all the worse for being impracticable? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• He was altogether splendid, massive, overpowering, and impracticable. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The impossibility of obtaining a uniform concentrate was a most serious objection, had there not indeed been other difficulties which rendered this method commercially impracticable. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I could only do this on foot, as the mass of ruin was impracticable for a horse. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Frantic and impracticable girl! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• By its means communication can be established between points where it is impracticable to extend wires. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Secession was illogical as well as impracticable; it was revolution. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• At present it is impracticable. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• But I felt she was a little impracticable. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Professor Barlow's Demonstration that Telegraphy was Impracticable. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It is painful, I allow, destructive, impracticable. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• When a professor says that socialism is impracticable he begs the question, for that amounts to assuming that the point at issue is already settled. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Saying which he went out in disdain; and the landlord, having no one to reply upon, found it impracticable to pursue the subject. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Marching across this country in the face of an enemy was impossible; navigating it proved equally impracticable. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I endeavoured therefore to sooth and soften her mind; and it was not until after many endeavours that I gave up the task as impracticable. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Laurie was equally impracticable, and would have had bonfires, skyrockets, and triumphal arches, if he had had his own way. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• He replied that it was impracticable, because the enemy had substantially the same line across the neck of land that General Butler had. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• They found in practice that their plan of raising the plane like a kite was impracticable, and that the wind was not strong enough to support it at a proper angle. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• It being impracticable to carry steam or the steam engine to the bottom of the mine for work there, compressed air is there employed, which is compressed by a steam engine up at the mouth. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• To carry coal for fuel and water for steam would be impracticable for most motor cars. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• This mound was strengthened by intrenchments at its base and summit, and rendered a direct attack impracticable. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• This statute, therefore, rendered it almost impracticable for a poor man to gain a new settlement in the old way, by forty days inhabitancy. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Mr. Thomson made the objection that it was impracticable, and that it would be impossible to supplant steam. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It is quite obvious that such a system would be commercially impracticable where small units, similar to gas jets, were employed. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The effort to make a waterway through Lake Providence and the connecting bayous was abandoned as wholly impracticable about the same time. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• But the circumstances under which she had regained her freedom rendered all recourse to such means as these simply impracticable. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It angered him to perceive that Rosamond's mind was wandering over impracticable wishes instead of facing possible efforts. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The plan was laughed at by many as impracticable, but it was attended with complete success. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• I showed them my plans, and the unanimous decision of the engineers was that it was absolutely and utterly impracticable. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I had endeavoured to adapt Dora to myself, and found it impracticable. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.

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