1. But no one could have possibly guessed the truth — that the man with endless money and a friendly manner was not a lord at all but a government employee living out a fantasy that he was a Scottish noble and paying for it by stealing funds from Scotla
    可是谁也没有料到这个事实：这个财源滚滚、举止友好的人并非什么勋爵，而是一名政府公务员。他幻想自己是位苏格兰贵族，并从苏格兰场（即伦敦警察总署）盗用钱财来买这个贵族头衔。

2. The noise pollution survey revealed a rather surprising and possibly amusing old fashioned source of noise.
    这个有关噪音的污染调查还揭示了一种出人意外而同时可能会引人意外而同时可能会引人发笑的老式噪音源。

3. The debate was over whether to go ahead with Overlord in the spring of 1944, as the Russians and Americans favoured, or possibly to postpone the invasion for the sake of operations in the Mediterranean, as the British proposed.
    辩论是针对是在1944年的春天像苏联和美国所赞成的那样继续进行“霸王”行动，还是如英国所提议的由于地中海地区军事行动的缘故可能推迟登陆。

4. To capture it, you must be ready. Creative people are always ready to act — possibly the only difference between us and them.
    所以，要抓到它就必须有所准备。有创造力的人总是随时准备采取行动——这也许是我们与爱迪生等人之间的惟一差别。

5. No matter what the conditions were, he believed that a car should be driven as fast as it could possibly go.
    他认为不管路面情况如何，车必须以最高速度前进。

6. He can´t possibly have finished his homework.
    他不可能做完了家庭作业。

7. He had company in and out of the hut all day, asking him how he could possibly be so noble.
    整天都有人进出他的小屋，请教他何以能够如此高洁。

8. And death rates have gone down slightly, possibly because fewer infections set in once any foreign object is removed.
    而死亡率也稍有下降，可能是因为异物去除后感染减少的缘故。

9. Soon the hobby leads to travel, perhaps to a meeting in another town, possibly a trip abroad in search of a rare specimen,
    用不了多久，有这种爱好的人便开始旅行，也许是去另一个城市参加会议，也可能是出国寻找一件珍品，

10. Of course, Leon Bagrit could not possibly have foreseen the development of the Internet,
    当然了，莱昂.巴格瑞特根本没有可能预测到国际交互网--就是把计算机连结到电话线路上，