That's not only borderline impossible but extremely laborious as well.

知识浩如海，任务无比艰巨。

It cost nothing to digitally reproduce data and words, and so we have them in numbing abundance.

以数字方式复制数据和文字不需要花费任何费用，因此我们有浩如海的数据。

Mr Hastings's achievement in organising this unwieldy mass of material into a narrative that sweeps confidently over every contested corner of the globe is impressive.

马克∙丁将这些浩如海的资料整理部叙事体历史，几乎囊括二战时期地球上发生过战事的每个角落，实在令人惊叹。

And they don't need a crystal ball: they can predict the future simply by looking for mathematical patterns in reams of historical data.

而它们无需水晶球：只需在浩如海的历史数据中寻找数学模式，便能预测未来。

But it is with no such purpose that I read these voluminous books; they gratify — or seem to gratify — a mere curiosity; and scarcely have I closed a volume, when the greater part of what I have read in it is forgotten.

但我阅读这些浩如海的书籍并没有这样的目的；他们满足——或者似乎满足——纯粹的好奇心；我刚合上本书，我在其中读到的大部分内容就被遗忘。