couldn't
美 ['kʊd(ə)nt] 
英 ['kʊd(ə)nt]
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
"Never mind, then, " she said. "I couldn't be with someone who evidently has no taste. "
“那没关系，”她说，“我不会和一个毫无品味的人在一起。”
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?
这类用小狗和小猫作为主角的版本已经大受欢迎。但孩子们不能在现实生活中这样自己选择生活吗？
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.
我很难表述我在更衣室的感觉，教练对我说我还得坚持完下半场，但我回答说我不能。
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，手中拿着那封信，努力想些什么，但是他无法思考。
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.
我所担心的是，虽然我十分欣赏他新的纪录片系列，我却不能用一个单独的问题询问有关的事。
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.
有些人将我的这种想法视为骄傲或自负，但我不会让任何人对我说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.
她那客人实在迟钝，竟看不出她正急于出门。
"The argument that they couldn't withstand the forces of head-butting seems to have been refuted by this evidence, " said Dr Theodor.
“那么有了这些证据那些关于剑角龙的头部不能承受头部撞击的压力的讨论似乎被驳倒了”Theodor博士说道。
The operator couldn't get much out of him, except an address.
接线员不能从他那边获得更多信息，除了一个地址。
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.
现在他不可能从大门和任何一扇窗户进去，所以安德鲁开始拍门好让妻子开门让他进去。
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.
她带着羞涩的喜悦，想起了已婚的弗兰克或者迪安（她不能告诉我们是谁），穿过核磁共振机，深情地唱歌给她听。
Intelligence officials knew there was an adult male in there, but they couldn't catch a glimpse. He never stepped in to view.
情报官员知道楼里住着一个成年男性，但始终无法见到他的身影，因为他从不露面。
She was sitting in the examination hall, looking at the examination paper, but she couldn' t answer any of the questions.
她正坐在考试大楼里，看着考试卷纸，但是她一道题也不会做。
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. . .
然而你真的不能说那只是他或他和两三个其他朋友，每个人都看一眼…
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.
我不能逃避这简单的想法，我恨我所扮演的角色，我有许多话要说但却没有人听。
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 .
当瓦尔斯向莎娃求婚的时候，莎娃非常的难过，她告诉男孩她是一个人鱼，是不能跟人类结婚的。
You couldn't have told him the matter.
你不可能把这件事告诉他了。
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.
那时没人知道这一点，但在比赛中，我的肩膀不停地弹进弹出；实在很痛，我无法正常比赛。
I must have had a brainstorm I couldn't remember my own telephone number for a moment.
我一定是糊涂了--一时想不起自己的电话号码了。
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，他说他要去做节目，已经迟到了，并说那些“大老粗”和“拿着相机的笨蛋们”根本不可能理解。
If he could not get in as a soldier, couldn't he be a drumboy?
如果他当兵不合格，叫他当个鼓手行不行呢？
He couldn't afford the money to go on the trip.
他不够钱去进行这次旅行。
Though the name seemed familiar, Nim couldn't place it.
这个名字虽然听起来耳熟，尼姆却想不起是谁。
We couldn't get the piano through the door.
我们无法将钢琴从此门搬进去。
"I couldn't do that, and leave my family down there across the field, " Clem said.
“我不能那样做，不能把我的家属撇在田地那边，”克莱姆说。
She was bad; but she couldn't help it.
她的确大逆不道，但这是不得已的。
He couldn't seem to find his voice.
他似乎一时说不出话来了。
He had answered: "Nonsense! I couldn't have sworn any such thing! " By some awkward fatality he remembered it now.
他回答：“胡说！我决不可能发过这样的誓！”现在偏偏不凑巧被他想起来了。
Why couldn't it be made to turn wheels?
为什么不能使它推动轮子呢？
All this has happened because you couldn't be bothered to give me the message.
就是因为你嫌麻烦没通知我，才出了这事。
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，看他象根蔬菜一样躺在那里，不久前他可是个精力充沛的人。
You couldn't wait for the real Peasant Leader to arrive and he might have too many peasant characteristics when he did.
你不能等待涌现出真正的农民领袖，而等他出现的时候，他的农民习气可能太多。
He swore by the name of God that he couldn't want to let such a small matter come between me and my sleep.
他以上帝的名义发誓，他不想让这样的小事妨碍我睡觉。
She pretended that she couldn't hear, so that they would not force an answer from her.
她假装听不见，这样他们不会强迫她回答问题。
She just couldn't understand Southerners, for all that she had lived in Georgia twenty years.
她简直就不懂得南方人的心理，虽则她在乔治亚州已经住了二十年。
"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，我们刚刚在岛上定居的时候，他们的婚姻习惯简直太不象话了，我都没法对你讲。
He couldn't abide the thought of being cooped up in an office.
一想到关在办公室里工作，他就觉得受不了。
It was such a surprise, such a shock that he couldn't cope with it.
这真是出乎意料，简直令人震惊，他根本不知怎么办才好。
Gretchen was sure she had seen the man somewhere before, but for the moment she couldn't place him.
格丽卿肯定她以前在什么地方见过这个人，可是眼下她却记不起来了。
A man of his figure couldn't be expected to bear it.
不能指望象他这种性格的人会忍受这个。
I couldn't bear to witness her sorrow: to see her pale dejected countenance, and heavy eyes.
我不忍看着她难受，不忍看着她那苍白的哭泣的脸和忧郁的眼睛。
I would really like having you here, but I must husband my resources, so I couldn't pay for your trip from Berlin.
我当然非常希望你来这里，但是我又必须节省开支，不能负担你从柏林到这里的旅费。
I made a kind of tent out of my blankets to put my things under, so the rain couldn't get at them.
我用毯子凑合着搭起了一个帐篷，把东西放在底下免得下起雨来打湿了。
"Ah, he couldn't be a martyr even if he wished! " Isabel sighed. "That's a very poor position! "
“那么，即使他愿意杀身成仁，也办不到了！”伊莎贝尔叹了口气。“他的处境实在太可怜了。”
Anna couldn't swim and was left floundering about in the deep end of the swimming-pool.
安娜不会游泳，在游泳池的深水区挣扎着。
I couldn't wonder at his voice, for it was mellow and full, and gave great importance to every word he uttered.
我也不觉得奇怪，因为他的声音圆润，铿锵，每一个字都有力量。
It was my doing, then, that he couldn't get out.
这么说来，他没能逃出来是由于我的原故。
When I followed you onto that platform, maybe I just couldn't resist being part of a dramatic scene.
我在你后面跳上台去，可能只是因为抵挡不住加入那一戏剧性场面的诱惑。
As she wanted to keep some money in hand for the afternoon, she couldn't buy any lunch.
由于她想留些钱下午用，就吃不起午饭了。
My mind was a blank and I couldn't remember her name.
我脑子里是一片空白，记不起她的名字了。
He said he couldn't get up because he had a great pain in his chest.
他说他不能起床了，因为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.
如果我们试图启动火箭并离开那里，结果不会很好，因为我们不可能逃离，连光也不可能逃离。
He couldn't undo his knot in his mind so he began to drink. He was often found sleeping underneath the table.
他无法解开心结，于是他开始喝酒，他被常常发现睡在桌子下面，他的健康逐渐被饮酒削弱。
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.
啥电影，啥影院，啥时候？如果你想要我追踪不到你，那你干得真是再好不过了。
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.
当我听说他不能比赛时我看到大家失望的表情。很容易理解球员们心理的变化。
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，绵延无尽。并非是我眼见的让我停住了脚步，而是我所看不见的。你能明白吗？
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.
帕里说：“我实在太高兴了，他决定和我在一起，因为他明白俱乐部对他有多重要。”
She couldn't resist laughing at him in those clothes.
看到他穿着那样的衣服，她忍不住笑了起来。
That's no good. Couldn't I have it a bit longer? Even if I fill up the tank?
九点半？不好。我不可以借久一点吗？即使我把油加满。
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解释说他现在已经不能将手高举过头顶，因为他曾经在花园里挖洞的时候出过事故。
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.
他告诉我别在上班的时候发给他，因为他忍不住要打来看，结果是欲火焚身。
'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. '
查尔斯爵士在他所站的那一小片路面上到处都留下了自己的脚印。我看不出其他痕迹。
You couldn't have caught him for love or money , he set out a week ago .
无论如何你也赶不上他了，他一周前就出发了。
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.
但是这是很有趣的，因为我能够做一些改善因为我起初不相信我的行为能改变多少我的想法。
Little by little my shaking shoulders are becoming shabby and I couldn't even tell you to turn around and look at them.
一点一点地，我颤抖的肩膀显得无力，我就连叫你回头看一看我也办不到。
The company had not issued a statement on the protests as of Sunday night and couldn't be reached for comment.
截至周日晚间，晶科未就抗议活动发布声明，记者也未能联系到晶科置评。
My parents wanted me to be a doctor , but I couldn't have put up with all those years of study .
我父母亲原来想让我当医生，但是学习那么多年我可受不了。
He said he'd waited so long that he couldn't stay any longer.
他说他已经等了这么长时间了，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.
妈妈，您的爱，就像块糖，包在唠叨里，藏在责骂里，让我东找西找，直到我懂事，才找到。
She couldn't get along with him without difficulty though she was such a patient girl.
尽管她那么耐心，她也不能毫无困难地和他相处。
He said that he couldn't find it and, farther, that nobody would ever find it.
他说他找不到它，并且也没有人会找得到它。
What in the nation she could find to laugh about I couldn't see, but there it was.
究竟她觉得有什么好笑的，我简直猜不透，可是她就老是那么笑。
She telephoned to say she couldn't come.
她在电话上说她不能来了。
There was such a heavy fog that one couldn't see further than five metres.
雾太大，5米以外就看不见了。
He telephoned that he couldn't come to the meeting.
他在电话上说他不能来参加会议了。
You couldn't have sent me a note?
你难道不能送张字条儿给我吗？
The door was locked; we couldn't get into the room anyhow.
门锁着，我们不论用什么办法也进不了房间。
He couldn't drive when he was bombed out.
他被灌醉了，不能开车。
I was supposed to do some work this weekend but I couldn't be arsed.
这个周末我本应该干点事，不过我不愿去找那个麻烦。
I couldn't give the programme my undivided attention .
我不能一心一意地关注这个方案。
