If not for John, Brian wouldn't have learned the truth.
要不是约翰,布莱恩不会了解真相。
I might not have met some if not for this job, and I've learned a lot about how people behave in these years.
如果不是因为这份工作,我可能不会遇到一些人,这些年来,我对人们的行为举止也了解了很多。
Yahoo said its revenue would have risen 3% if not for currency fluctuations.
雅虎称如果不考虑汇率波动,它的营收应上升3%。
I decided to try one more time. If not for myself, I had to do it for them.
我决定再试一次,不为自己,我也要为他们。
Samantha, if not for today, not for you ...I would never have known love at all.
莎曼塔,要不是今天,要不是你……我永远不会懂得爱情。
Contemporary music would not be what it is if not for the influences of the past.
如果不是过去音乐的影响,就不会有我们现在流行的当代音乐。
If not for Sabet's design, she says, "I would have missed swimming with the dolphins."
“如果没有撒巴特的设计,”她说,“我就失去了和海豚同游的机会。”
This combination suggests that spending would still be falling if not for the tax cuts in the stimulus.
这种组合表明如果不是因为减税的刺激,开支仍然会下降。
If not for every minute of your life, at least for the time you set aside to pursue the thing that matters.
并不是说你在人生中的每分每秒都要保持这样的状态,只是当你在追求你所在意的,这样的专注是需要的。
And of course the hands wouldn't be so well-suited if not for the correspondingly adequate cortical infrastructure.
当然,如果没有与之配套的足够的大脑皮质实体结构,手也就不会那样地非常灵巧。
As a matter of fact the holiest of men have been some of the shrewdest, for their friends at least, if not for themselves.
事实上,最神圣的的人群某种意义上又是最精明的,如果不为自身,至少为他们的朋友。
In those cases, it might make sense to consider a tool specifically built for handling XML, if not for that explicit task.
在多数情况下,如果不是针对明确的任务,考虑专为处理XML而构建的工具将更有意义。
Many of these new friends are amazing people that I'd never have had the opportunity to know otherwise, if not for the blog.
这些新朋友都是很有趣的人,如果不是因为博客,我永远也不会有机会认识他们。
He knew that if not for Moira, their marriage would not have contained enough happiness to keep him and Colleen together.
他明白,如果不是有莫伊拉,他在婚姻中体会到的幸福不足以让他和科琳守着对方。
"My Lord," said Zhuge Liang, "you were in more danger than you knew today. If not for Lord Guan, Zhou Yu would have killed you."
诸葛亮说:“你今天过江很危险,周瑜本意杀你,要不是云长在场,他就得逞了!”
The country almost certainly would have defaulted on debts that came due this month if not for the bailout it eventually received.
如果最终得不到救济,该国的债务几乎肯定将会违约。
If not for the message (this was about John Lennon's son), then for the memory you have of the very first time you heard this song.
如果没有这条消息(这是关于约翰·列侬儿子的),在你的记忆中可能最先听到的是这首歌。
But this ignores Germany's major share of responsibility for the currency and banking crises, if not for the sovereign-debt crisis.
但是,这就相当于无视德国在货币和银行危机中所应承担起的主要责任。
I'll be writing more about that in an upcoming post, but the point I'm trying to make is that this blog woudn't exist if not for those experiments.
我将在接下来的一篇博文中对此做更多的讲述,但在本文我想说的是:如果没有那些实验,这个博客就不会存在。
That means that the Bulls would've at least made the Finals without Jordan if not for that call and at least gone to six games against the Rockets.
这就意味着,如果没有那声哨响,公牛会在没有乔丹的情况下至少跻身总决赛,至少能跟火箭拼个6场。
Questions that lead them into emotional states will also have an impact on their responses. If not for this question then possibly for subsequent ones.
如果被问者进入情绪化的状态,那么他们给出的回答也会失去公正性。就算不影响正在答的这个问题,也很可能使接下来的回答失去公正性。
Either the stimulus has been a failure or things were worse than we originally thought; unemployment might be even higher today if not for the stimulus.
刺激是无效的还是事情没我们想象的那么遭:如果没有刺激的话,失业率也许会比现在的更高。
Releasing games only in certain regions wouldn't be so bad, if not for the region locks that restrict game machines to playing software from a single territory.
如果不为游戏机设置区码锁使它不能玩其他地区的游戏,那么只在特定区域发售游戏还不算太糟。
Clearly even Google itself recognizes the utility of having specialized, focused search - if not for every vertical, at least for some like Blogs and Music.
很明显Google自己也认识到了专门化搜索的实用性,即使没有进入每一个垂直领域,至少专注于类似博客和音乐这类方面。
Medical experts have been unable to say whether the canine CPR had any medical impact but say Mr Touzeau would not be alive today if not for Teka's efforts.
医学专家仍然不能肯定这种“犬式心肺复苏(CPR)法”是否有医学上的效用,但是图佐目前仍然活着,这不能不说与Teka的努力有关。
That would be a depressing end to the story of habitable zones, if not for a series of amazing findings that life on Earth is not what everyone thought it was.
寻找地外生命的故事似乎又要惨淡收场,但一系列关于地球上生命的惊人发现告诉我们它们和人们一直以来的认为有所不同。
The horse, called Gracie (so am I), was unable to free itself and could have been in danger if not for a passer-by who was able to come to the rescue after he heard the horse whinnying .
这匹名叫格雷西的马,头卡在树里出不来了,要不是路人听到它的嘶叫声赶来救它很可能就有生命危险啦。
The horse, called Gracie (so am I), was unable to free itself and could have been in danger if not for a passer-by who was able to come to the rescue after he heard the horse whinnying .
这匹名叫格雷西的马,头卡在树里出不来了,要不是路人听到它的嘶叫声赶来救它很可能就有生命危险啦。
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