No one can achieve the impossible.

Fire crews are hoping they can achieve full containment of the fire before the winds pick up.

消防队员希望趁着风还没有起来将火势完全控制住。

If competition is the best way to achieve it, then, fine.

如果竞争是达到目标的最佳方式，那就这么着吧。

They should be sceptical of exaggerated claims for what such courses can achieve.

对于那些课程能够取得何等成果的夸大宣传，他们应该持怀疑态度。

He's won back his place too late to achieve his target of 20 goals this season.

他赢回自己的位置时为时已晚,无法实现本赛季进20粒球的目标.

Banning boxing would achieve nothing, and may result in worse injuries from illegal prize fights.

禁止拳击比赛不会起到任何作用，反而可能会导致非法职业拳击比赛中出现更严重的受伤情况。

I'm highly unsympathetic to what you are trying to achieve.

我极不赞成你试图达成的目标。

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

有人生来伟大，有人成就伟大，有人被迫伟大。

He was extremely devious in his efforts to achieve his heart's desire.

他在设法得到自己的中意之物时会不择手段。

A nation must take certain risks to achieve greatness.

一个国家想取得巨大的成就必定要冒一定的风险。

They say the peace process is so heavily weighted against them that it will never achieve results.

他们说和平进程对他们十分不利，根本不会取得任何成果。

When my wife sets her mind on something, she invariably finds a way to achieve it.

我妻子一旦下定决心做某事，就总能设法完成。

Peace could come only gradually, in carefully measured steps. Even then, it sounds almost impossible to achieve.

和平只会逐渐到来，而且每一步都走得小心翼翼。即使那样，要实现和平听起来仍几乎不可能。

I asked McKeown if the reunion was meant to achieve closure.

我问麦基翁重聚是不是为了寻求解脱。

He had finally achieved success.

他终于获得了成功。

He achieved the success he so richly deserved.

他取得了自己完全应得的成功。

The compres-sion of the wood is easily achieved.

木头很容易压紧。

Abraham Lincoln achieved greatness.

亚伯拉罕·林肯成就卓越。

She almost died, but the hospital's skill achieved great marvels.

她已经奄奄一息，但是医院的技术却创造了伟大的奇迹。

It's questionable whether anything of substance has been achieved.

是否已经取得了任何实质性进展还是个问题。

Your feature has the merit of simply stating what has been achieved.

你这篇专题文章的可取之处是简明扼要地道出了取得的成就。