英和和英

動詞

ask the impossible (third-person singular simple present asks the impossible, present participle asking the impossible, simple past and past participle asked the impossible)

1. To request or expect something that is too difficult.
   • 1975, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act Amendments of 1975, page 199:

     We ask the impossible of our law enforcement agencies, we ask the impossible of our health and rehabilitative agencies, and we confuse the public even further.

   • 2019, Miriam Focaccia, Pietro Blaserna and the Birth of the Institute of Physics in Rome, page 114:

     To ask too much now would be to ask the impossible.

   • 2022, Inez Haynes Gillmore, The Story of the Woman's Party:

     What I ask is, will you use your influence within your Party? I do not ask the impossible, though I might from you, for you have done the impossible.