Tests do not compensate for gross social inequality, and thus do not tell how able an underprivileged youngster might have been had he grown up under more favorable circumstances.
测试并不弥补明显的社会不公,因此不能说明一个物质条件差的年轻人,如果在较好的环境下成长的话,会有多大才干。
For example, tests do not compensate for gross social inequality, and thus do not tell how able an underprivileged youngster might have been had he grown up under more favorable circumstances.
例如,测试并不弥补明显的社会不公;因此,它们不能说明一个物质条件差的年轻人,如果在较好的环境下成长的话,会有多大才干。
Which there might not have been had I started with the only joke I can ever remember. What did the policeman say to his stomach?
而假如我用自己唯一能记得的笑话开场,可能一点笑声都不会有——警察对自己的肚子说什么?
America's schools are improving the academic performance of all Americans above what it would have been had they not come to America.
美国的学校正在改进它上面的已不是他们来美国的美国人成绩。
Paradoxically, when each prisoner pursues his self-interest, both end up worse off than they would have been had they acted otherwise.
矛盾的地方是,如果他们俩都只顾自身的利益,最终的结果是很糟糕的。
Similarly, Barcelona had intended to replace Eto 'o before the start of last season - who knows what Pep Guardiola's plan may have been had he been able to.
类似地,巴塞罗那在上赛季揭幕前曾欲换掉埃托奥——如果瓜迪奥拉卖掉喀麦隆人,谁知道他的战术是什么样呢。
If we had been spotted at that point, I don't know what would have happened to us.
如果那时我们被发现了,我不知道我们会有什么后果。
I'm sure I'd have spotted him if it had been up to me.
要是换了我,我肯定已经认出他了。
This meeting has been, without doubt, one of the most useful we have had so far.
这无疑是我们迄今为止最有用的一次会议。
If Jim had been more independent, the divorce would not have affected him as deeply.
如果吉姆曾经更独立一些,离婚就不会对他有这么深的影响了。
If your customer thinks he's been had, you have to make him happy.
要是顾客觉得他受骗了,你得想法取悦他。
The second injection should only have been given once the first drug had taken effect.
第2针本应只在第1针见效后才能注射。
My daughter would have been 17 this week if she had lived.
我的女儿如果还活着,这个星期就满17岁了。
He took my place and got killed. It should have been me—that bullet had my name on it.
他坐了我的位子而送了命。死的应该是我,那颗子弹是冲着我来的。
There have been allegations from survivors that safety standards had been lax.
幸存者们指控安全标准不严格。
If it had been left to me I would have put him out on the street long ago.
换了我,早就把他赶出家门了。
If she could just establish the time the picture had been taken, Mick would have a watertight alibi.
只要她能确定拍这张照片的时间,米克就可以有一个无懈可击的不在现场的证据。
Some of my colleagues insisted it had to have been made well after 100 B.C.E.
我的一些同事坚持认为它肯定是公元前100年后才发明出来的。
If they had been two little street boys they would have sprung at each other and had a rough-and-tumble fight.
如果他们是两个街头的小男孩,他们就会扑上去打闹起来。
If it had not been for a very lucky chance, he probably would have had to stay there longer.
如果不是因为一个非常幸运的机会,他可能会不得不在那里待得更久。
Had I written a newspaper, it would have been read!
如果我写了一份报纸,就会有人读了!
We have all had experiences where our senses have been wrong—illusions, perhaps, mirages.
我们都有过感觉出错的经历——是幻觉,亦或是海市蜃楼。
Had Obama been white it would have been different.
假使奥巴马是个白人,那么情况也许就不尽相同了。
It clearly had four limbs that could have been used for walking.
它显然有四肢,可以用于行走。
If Nana had been with them, she would have had a bandage round Michael's forehead by this time.
如果娜娜和他们在一起,她现在一定已经在迈克尔的额头上缠了绷带。
The lines were thought to have been a system of canals that had been built to irrigate the surface.
这些管道被认为是为灌溉地表而修建的运河系统。
Wendy would have cried if Michael had not been crying.
如果迈克尔没有哭,温迪就会哭了。
At least, that is what she would have said if she had been asked.
至少,如果有人问她,她会这么说。
At least, that is what she would have said if she had been asked.
至少,如果有人问她,她会这么说。
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