The Okefenokee,which is already nearly choked with plants, would probably fill in,dry up, and become just another cypress and pine forest were it not for range fires that come along every once in awhile and burn out decayed vegetation.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

And not only was it a party school, you were going to have an amazing time for the four years and beyond.

不仅是个派对大学，而且未来四年甚至以后，都会过得很快乐。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

So, for example, when people, and we'll talk about this next class, were looking at different characteristics spectra of different atoms, what they were seeing is that it appeared to be these very discreet lines that were allowed or not allowed for the different atoms to emit, but they had no way to explain this using classical physics.

举个例子，当大家看到,不同原子的特征光谱时,他们看到的是一些分离的线,那可以使不同的原子,发射或不发射出去，但是这些无法用经典物理来解释。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But any concerns that parents would not want to buy it for little girls were soon proved wrong.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

Some of us are supermen, and it is quite wrong and wicked for us to be treated as though we were ordinary fellows, and therefore do not tie us down with these ridiculous codes of ethics, and morals, and other things which are simply the weapons by which the weak hold down the strong."

有些甚至是超人,把我们都作为普通人,来对待是错的,是不道德的,所以别用荒唐的,道德伦理来束缚我们,或用武器这样粗陋的东西来约束我们,那是弱者用来压制强者的工具"

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Parson Walker's wife was very sick once, for a long time, and it seemed as if they were not going to save her.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

If it were not for me and my money, this room would be empty!"

VOA: special.2009.01.31

It would not be remembered today if it were not for Faulkner's later work.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

Later,he said: "If it were not for the high office I held, I would have taken him by the seat of the pants and the nape of the neck and thrown him out the window."

VOA: special.2010.08.12

Iranian and U.S.diplomats were aware of one another's presence at the Moscow conference, but said it is not unusual for them to attend the same international forums.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

Because they are coming forward to give you blood, but at the end of it they may end up with bad news that they were not prepared for."

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

"And it would not necessarily be as problematic as in some scenarios if it were not for the fact that the Taliban themselves actually market themselves as being the anti-corruption entity."

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon says peace talks could have resumed long ago, if it were not for the refusal of President Abbas, who is also known as Abu Mazen.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19