If the wooden frame of the towers had caught fire, it could have sent the bells the largest of which, the Emmanuel Bell, weighs 13 tons crashing down, potentially causing the collapse of both towers.
如果双塔的木制框架起火，可能会导致最大的钟——重达13吨的伊曼纽尔钟倒塌，从而可能会导致双塔倒塌。
I, too, have resisted the idea that food shortages could bring down not only individual governments but also our global civilization.
我也抵制这样一种观点，即粮食短缺不仅会拖垮个别国家的政府，还会波及全球文明的发展。
Yet I, too, have resisted the idea that food shortages could bring down not only individual governments but also our global civilization.
然而，我也反对这样一种观点，即粮食短缺不仅会拖垮个别国家的政府，还会波及全球文明的发展。
When 23-year-old Marilyn Brown started to feel run-down last December, it never occurred to her that she could have tuberculosis.
当23岁的玛丽莲•布朗去年12月开始感到疲惫的时候，她未曾想到她会得肺结核。
How could Hook have got down here?
胡克怎么会下来到这儿的？
When everything was settled, they all went down, the uncle carrying Clara, who could not have risked the lengthy walk.
当一切都安排妥当后，他们都下楼去了，大叔抱着克拉拉，她不能冒险走这么长的路。
Maybe it was the beginning of something better in life, better than you could ever have thought possible before clamping your jaws down over the vital bait.
也许这是更美好生活的开始，要比你闭上嘴、咬住那极为重要的鱼饵之前所能够想到的要好。
The furniture could not have been much simpler: a very old chair, a rickety old bed, and a tumble-down table.
家具再简单不过了：一把很旧的椅子，一张摇摇欲坠的旧床，一张摇摇欲坠的桌子。
The sad friends of Truth in this fable have gone up and down, gathering up Truth limb by limb still as they could find them.
在这个寓言中真理的朋友悲伤地到处游走，收集真理的碎片，仿佛他们真的能找到这些碎片。
If your parents are having problems, you should offer to help. Maybe you could do more jobs around the house so that they have more time for proper communication. Secondly, why don't you sit down and communicate with your brother?
如果你的父母有问题，你应该主动提供帮助。也许你可以多做些家务，这样他们就有更多的时间进行适当的交流。第二，你为什么不坐下来和你哥哥交流呢？
But all three had reasonable liquidity and could have hunkered down for at least another year.
不过这三家都有合理的资产折现力并可沉潜待发至少一年以上。
Looking back at my high school years, I see a lot of patterns there that could have pointed me down the road to writing, but I chose to ignore them and go for areas where I believed the "money" was.
现在回头看我的高中岁月，我发现其中发生的许多事都为我指明了写作道路，但我选择了忽视他们，而选择了我自己认为能来钱的方向。
I said I could never get down to a handful of clothes, but I have.
我曾说我不可能只有几件衣服就过日子，而我现在正这么过。
This approach could be broadened to other markets that have shut down.
这种方法可以推广到其他陷入停滞的市场。
Only later might their arms have evolved into wings they could push up and down, transforming them from gliders to true powered fliers.
尔后，前肢进化成可以上下拍动的翅膀，于是它们又从滑翔者转型成为真正的飞行家。
Well, I am not into this stuff and I have never been: how could I turn him down without losing the friendship?
但是我对这类事情一直以来不感兴趣：那我怎样能既不失去这份友谊又委婉地拒绝他呢？
We feel it's possible we could have pulled down some data even with the signal at 0, but voice is another thing.
我们觉得在信号为0时还是有可能获得一些数据的，但是语音就是另一回事了。
The daughter thinks the women could have saved themselves if they had immediately gotten together to break down one of the doors.
那个女儿认为，如果那些女人马上就一起砸开一个门的话，她们就能够挽救她们自己的性命的。
In fact, my heart was beating so quickly that the doctors told my family that if they could not slow it down, I would have a heart attack and die.
事实上，我的心跳如此之快，以至于医生告诉我的家人，如果他们不能把我的心跳降下来的话，我将会因心脏病而死去。
'I don't understand how I could have believed him when I knew deep down my family adored me.
我深深知道我的家人非常疼爱我，但我不知道我当时究竟是怎样相信相信他的。
Investors, fearing America will have to inflate its way out of such debt, could push the dollar down and interest rates up.
因担忧美国将不得不通过通货膨胀来摆脱这一债务，投资者将会推动美元下跌、利率提高。
Though that could have been because the rear-view mirror had slipped down and sideways once more, giving me a clear view of the passenger side dashboard air-vent.
尽管那可能是因为后视镜再一次滑下来歪到一边，给我呈现了一幅乘客位仪表盘通风口的清晰景象。
Should a concert seat come bundled with the right to get up and dance, the older woman could have offered to pay her tormentor to sit down.
如果音乐会的座位与站起来和跳舞的权利绑定，年长的女士可以付钱让折磨她的人坐下来。
She walked me up and down hills in an intensive tutorial which could never have been booked through commercial agents.
她与我在山陵间一同徒步，给我细致讲解，商业旅行社上哪能预定得到呢。
California is cracking down on invasive species, and that could have a big impact on national regulations due out later this year.
加利福尼亚正在严厉打击外来入侵物种，这将在今年晚些时候对国家法规产生重大影响。
During a discussion Friday in Washington, they said a scaling down of nuclear energy projects could have a damaging effect on efforts to curb pollution from other energy sources.
专家们星期五在华盛顿的一次研讨会上指出，削减核能项目可能会殃及减少其他形式能源污染的努力。
Russia jumped in earlier this year by supplying nuclear fuel to India, claiming "safety" as a reason for providing uranium to an Indian reactor that could simply have been shut down.
今年早些时候，俄罗斯跳出来给印度提供核燃料并声称“安全”，因为提供给印度的铀用于可简单关闭的反应堆。
I don't know. He could have let me down.
我不知道，他或许会让我失望。
I don't know. He could have let me down.
我不知道，他或许会让我失望。
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