couldn't
美 ['k?d(?)nt] 
英 ['k?d(?)nt]
英漢解釋
英英解釋
例句
"Never mind, then, " she said. "I couldn't be with someone who evidently has no taste. "
“那沒關系，”她說，“我不會和一個毫無品味的人在一起。”
Versions of this for puppies and cats have already been popular, but couldn't the kids just, you know, get a life of their own?
這類用小狗和小貓作為主角的版本已經大受歡迎。但孩子們不能在現實生活中這樣自己選擇生活嗎？
It's hard to tell you what I felt in the changing room, the coach told me I had to play the second half but I replied that I couldn't.
我很難表述我在更衣室的感覺，教練對我說我還得堅持完下半場，但我回答說我不能。
He remained seated in the bathroom, with the letter in his hands, trying to think, but he couldn't think.
他呆坐在盥洗室里，手中拿著那封信，努力想些什么，但是他無法思考。
And my worry was that while I quite enjoyed his new documentary series, I couldn't think of a single question to ask about it.
我所擔心的是，雖然我十分欣賞他新的紀錄片系列，我卻不能用一個單獨的問題詢問有關的事。
Some people take that to be cocky or conceited, but I wasn't going to let anybody tell me that I couldn't do whatever I set out to do.
有些人將我的這種想法視為驕傲或自負，但我不會讓任何人對我說我做不到自己想做的事。
Her guest was really not very bright, he couldn't see that she was all eager ness to go out.
她那客人實在遲鈍，竟看不出她正急于出門。
"The argument that they couldn't withstand the forces of head-butting seems to have been refuted by this evidence, " said Dr Theodor.
“那么有了這些證據那些關于劍角龍的頭部不能承受頭部撞擊的壓力的討論似乎被駁倒了”Theodor博士說道。
The operator couldn't get much out of him, except an address.
接線員不能從他那邊獲得更多信息，除了一個地址。
Now that the couldn't get in from the front door or through a window, Andrew began pounding on the front door to get his wife to open it.
現在他不可能從大門和任何一扇窗戶進去，所以安德魯開始拍門好讓妻子開門讓他進去。
She had a look of demure joy, recalling the married Frank or Dean (she couldn't tell us who) crooning to her over the M. R. I. machine.
她帶著羞澀的喜悅，想起了已婚的弗蘭克或者迪安（她不能告訴我們是誰），穿過核磁共振機，深情地唱歌給她聽。
Intelligence officials knew there was an adult male in there, but they couldn't catch a glimpse. He never stepped in to view.
情報官員知道樓里住著一個成年男性，但始終無法見到他的身影，因為他從不露面。
She was sitting in the examination hall, looking at the examination paper, but she couldn' t answer any of the questions.
她正坐在考試大樓里，看著考試卷紙，但是她一道題也不會做。
and yet you couldn't really tell if it was just him or him and two or three or four other friends, each taking a look. . .
然而你真的不能說那只是他或他和兩三個其他朋友，每個人都看一眼…
I couldn't escape one simple thought, I hated my place in the word, I had so much to say and no one to listen.
我不能逃避這簡單的想法，我恨我所扮演的角色，我有許多話要說但卻沒有人聽。
When Wars asked Sawa to many him . Sawa was very sad . She told him that she was a mermaid and she couldn't marry man .
當瓦爾斯向莎娃求婚的時候，莎娃非常的難過，她告訴男孩她是一個人魚，是不能跟人類結婚的。
You couldn't have told him the matter.
你不可能把這件事告訴他了。
Nobody knew at the time, but my shoulder kept popping in and out during matches; it was very painful and I couldn't play at my best.
那時沒人知道這一點，但在比賽中，我的肩膀不停地彈進彈出；實在很痛，我無法正常比賽。
I must have had a brainstorm I couldn't remember my own telephone number for a moment.
我一定是糊涂了--一時想不起自己的電話號碼了。
Initially, he said he was late to a taping and said the "louts" and "jackasses with cameras" who taped him couldn't possibly understand.
最初，他說他要去做節目，已經遲到了，并說那些“大老粗”和“拿著相機的笨蛋們”根本不可能理解。
If he could not get in as a soldier, couldn't he be a drumboy?
如果他當兵不合格，叫他當個鼓手行不行呢？
He couldn't afford the money to go on the trip.
他不夠錢去進行這次旅行。
Though the name seemed familiar, Nim couldn't place it.
這個名字雖然聽起來耳熟，尼姆卻想不起是誰。
We couldn't get the piano through the door.
我們無法將鋼琴從此門搬進去。
"I couldn't do that, and leave my family down there across the field, " Clem said.
“我不能那樣做，不能把我的家屬撇在田地那邊，”克萊姆說。
She was bad; but she couldn't help it.
她的確大逆不道，但這是不得已的。
He couldn't seem to find his voice.
他似乎一時說不出話來了。
He had answered: "Nonsense! I couldn't have sworn any such thing! " By some awkward fatality he remembered it now.
他回答：“胡說！我決不可能發過這樣的誓！”現在偏偏不湊巧被他想起來了。
Why couldn't it be made to turn wheels?
為什么不能使它推動輪子呢？
All this has happened because you couldn't be bothered to give me the message.
就是因為你嫌麻煩沒通知我，才出了這事。
I couldn't stand his suffering or seeing him lying there like a vegetable-not any longer-a man of his vitality.
我不忍心看他遭罪，看他象根蔬菜一樣躺在那里，不久前他可是個精力充沛的人。
You couldn't wait for the real Peasant Leader to arrive and he might have too many peasant characteristics when he did.
你不能等待涌現出真正的農民領袖，而等他出現的時候，他的農民習氣可能太多。
He swore by the name of God that he couldn't want to let such a small matter come between me and my sleep.
他以上帝的名義發誓，他不想讓這樣的小事妨礙我睡覺。
She pretended that she couldn't hear, so that they would not force an answer from her.
她假裝聽不見，這樣他們不會強迫她回答問題。
She just couldn't understand Southerners, for all that she had lived in Georgia twenty years.
她簡直就不懂得南方人的心理，雖則她在喬治亞州已經住了二十年。
"You know, their marriage customs when we first settled in the islands were so shocking that I couldn't possibly describe them to you. "
你知道，我們剛剛在島上定居的時候，他們的婚姻習慣簡直太不象話了，我都沒法對你講。
He couldn't abide the thought of being cooped up in an office.
一想到關在辦公室里工作，他就覺得受不了。
It was such a surprise, such a shock that he couldn't cope with it.
這真是出乎意料，簡直令人震驚，他根本不知怎么辦才好。
Gretchen was sure she had seen the man somewhere before, but for the moment she couldn't place him.
格麗卿肯定她以前在什么地方見過這個人，可是眼下她卻記不起來了。
A man of his figure couldn't be expected to bear it.
不能指望象他這種性格的人會忍受這個。
I couldn't bear to witness her sorrow: to see her pale dejected countenance, and heavy eyes.
我不忍看著她難受，不忍看著她那蒼白的哭泣的臉和憂郁的眼睛。
I would really like having you here, but I must husband my resources, so I couldn't pay for your trip from Berlin.
我當然非常希望你來這里，但是我又必須節省開支，不能負擔你從柏林到這里的旅費。
I made a kind of tent out of my blankets to put my things under, so the rain couldn't get at them.
我用毯子湊合著搭起了一個帳篷，把東西放在底下免得下起雨來打濕了。
"Ah, he couldn't be a martyr even if he wished! " Isabel sighed. "That's a very poor position! "
“那么，即使他愿意殺身成仁，也辦不到了！”伊莎貝爾嘆了口氣。“他的處境實在太可憐了。”
Anna couldn't swim and was left floundering about in the deep end of the swimming-pool.
安娜不會游泳，在游泳池的深水區掙扎著。
I couldn't wonder at his voice, for it was mellow and full, and gave great importance to every word he uttered.
我也不覺得奇怪，因為他的聲音圓潤，鏗鏘，每一個字都有力量。
It was my doing, then, that he couldn't get out.
這么說來，他沒能逃出來是由于我的原故。
When I followed you onto that platform, maybe I just couldn't resist being part of a dramatic scene.
我在你后面跳上臺去，可能只是因為抵擋不住加入那一戲劇性場面的誘惑。
As she wanted to keep some money in hand for the afternoon, she couldn't buy any lunch.
由于她想留些錢下午用，就吃不起午飯了。
My mind was a blank and I couldn't remember her name.
我腦子里是一片空白，記不起她的名字了。
He said he couldn't get up because he had a great pain in his chest.
他說他不能起床了，因為他有巨大的痛苦在他的胸部。
It would be bad if we tried to fire our rockets and get out of there because we couldn't, anymore than light can escape.
如果我們試圖啟動火箭并離開那里，結果不會很好，因為我們不可能逃離，連光也不可能逃離。
He couldn't undo his knot in his mind so he began to drink. He was often found sleeping underneath the table.
他無法解開心結，于是他開始喝酒，他被常常發現睡在桌子下面，他的健康逐漸被飲酒削弱。
What movie? what theater? what time? If you were trying to make it impossible to locate you, You couldn't have done a better job.
啥電影，啥影院，啥時候？如果你想要我追蹤不到你，那你干得真是再好不過了。
When I heard he couldn't play, I saw it in the faces of my players and it was easy to understand what was going on in their souls.
當我聽說他不能比賽時我看到大家失望的表情。很容易理解球員們心理的變化。
All that city. You just couldn't see an end to it. . . . It wasn't what I saw that stopped me , Max. It was what I didn't see.
偌大的城市，綿延無盡。并非是我眼見的讓我停住了腳步，而是我所看不見的。你能明白嗎？
I couldn't be more delighted, said Parry. He has decided to stay with us because he realises how much the club means to him.
帕里說：“我實在太高興了，他決定和我在一起，因為他明白俱樂部對他有多重要。”
She couldn't resist laughing at him in those clothes.
看到他穿著那樣的衣服，她忍不住笑了起來。
That's no good. Couldn't I have it a bit longer? Even if I fill up the tank?
九點半？不好。我不可以借久一點嗎？即使我把油加滿。
John explained that he couldn't raise his arm above his head. John told him that he had an accident to home while digging in the garden.
John解釋說他現在已經不能將手高舉過頭頂，因為他曾經在花園里挖洞的時候出過事故。
He told me to stop sending them to him while he was at work because he couldn't resist opening them and would end up with a huge erection.
他告訴我別在上班的時候發給他，因為他忍不住要打來看，結果是欲火焚身。
'Sir Charles had left his footprints all over that little bit of the path where he was standing. I couldn't see any other prints. '
查爾斯爵士在他所站的那一小片路面上到處都留下了自己的腳印。我看不出其他痕跡。
You couldn't have caught him for love or money , he set out a week ago .
無論如何你也趕不上他了，他一周前就出發了。
But it was really interesting, because I was able to make some progress because I couldn't believe how much my behavior changed my thoughts.
但是這是很有趣的，因為我能夠做一些改善因為我起初不相信我的行為能改變多少我的想法。
Little by little my shaking shoulders are becoming shabby and I couldn't even tell you to turn around and look at them.
一點一點地，我顫抖的肩膀顯得無力，我就連叫你回頭看一看我也辦不到。
The company had not issued a statement on the protests as of Sunday night and couldn't be reached for comment.
截至周日晚間，晶科未就抗議活動發布聲明，記者也未能聯系到晶科置評。
My parents wanted me to be a doctor , but I couldn't have put up with all those years of study .
我父母親原來想讓我當醫生，但是學習那么多年我可受不了。
He said he'd waited so long that he couldn't stay any longer.
他說他已經等了這么長時間了，不能再等了。
Mom, your love is just like a bar of candy, with a package of ceaseless chatter and scold; I couldn't find it out until I grow up.
媽媽，您的愛，就像塊糖，包在嘮叨里，藏在責罵里，讓我東找西找，直到我懂事，才找到。
She couldn't get along with him without difficulty though she was such a patient girl.
盡管她那么耐心，她也不能毫無困難地和他相處。
He said that he couldn't find it and, farther, that nobody would ever find it.
他說他找不到它，并且也沒有人會找得到它。
What in the nation she could find to laugh about I couldn't see, but there it was.
究竟她覺得有什么好笑的，我簡直猜不透，可是她就老是那么笑。
She telephoned to say she couldn't come.
她在電話上說她不能來了。
There was such a heavy fog that one couldn't see further than five metres.
霧太大，5米以外就看不見了。
He telephoned that he couldn't come to the meeting.
他在電話上說他不能來參加會議了。
You couldn't have sent me a note?
你難道不能送張字條兒給我嗎？
The door was locked; we couldn't get into the room anyhow.
門鎖著，我們不論用什么辦法也進不了房間。
He couldn't drive when he was bombed out.
他被灌醉了，不能開車。
I was supposed to do some work this weekend but I couldn't be arsed.
這個周末我本應該干點事，不過我不愿去找那個麻煩。
I couldn't give the programme my undivided attention .
我不能一心一意地關注這個方案。
