To quote from Albert Einstein, science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
The telescope made possible the observation of the far-off stars. 望远镜使人们能够观察遥远的星球。
国内出版的某些专著把能够用于这一结构中的形容词仅限于“possible”一词。其实,在现代英语中能够用于这一结构中的形容词越来越多。又如: The primary aim of every punctuation mark is to make unmistakable the meanin g of written words.
写作时应用标点符号的基本目的,是使所用词语的意义不致被误解。
Mattes says:"but we will simply be making available to a wider public services that already exist.” 马狄斯说:“但是我们只是想使已经存在的服务项目能够面向更广大的公众。”