By anticipating "What if...?" situations before they happen, you can reach understanding that will help ease you out of confrontations.
你可以通过在事情发生之前设想“如果……会怎样”来理解它，这将有助于你从冲突中解脱出来。
The researchers also explored what would happen if consumers replaced old products with new electronics that serve more than one function.
研究人员还探索了如果消费者用具有多种功能的新电子产品取代旧产品将会发生什么。
If he had only known then the dreadful things that were to happen to him on account of his disobedience!
要是他能知道，因为不听话将会面临什么可怕的事情，那就好了！
That is far less likely to happen if Congress also adopts strong "pay-go" rules requiring that any increase in payments to providers be offset by new taxes or budget cuts.
如果国会也采取强硬的“现收现付”规则，要求用新的税收或预算削减来抵消增加的支付给供应商的费用，这种情况发生的可能性就会小得多。
What would happen if educators instead took advantage of the fact that teens are powerfully compelled to think in social terms?
青少年会受到强烈的驱动，从社交角度进行思考，若教育者利用这一事实的话，会发生什么？
We are guided by a belief that good things will happen for us in the future if we take proper care of the present.
我们被这样一种信念指引着：如果我们过好现在的生活，未来就会有好事发生。
My dear, imagine that if we don't have the shells, what will happen to us?
亲爱的，请你想象一下，如果我们没有了这些贝壳，我们将会怎么样呢？
Even if Steel does happen to be among that tiny minority, says Bostock, it's "pretty irresponsible" to suggest that 20-hour days are simply a question of discipline for the rest of us.
博斯托克表示，即使斯蒂尔恰好属于这一小部分人，认为每天工作20个小时对我们其他人来说只是一个纪律问题，也是“相当不负责任”的。
They might say "if I do this, then I think that will happen".
他们可能会说：“如果我这样做了，那么我认为那将会发生。”
If these happen, it shows that you are probably anxious, and your anxiety will stop you from going after your dreams. Actually, anxiety feeds on avoidance and makes you less confident, while getting started and taking action help your anxiety go down.
如果出现这种情况，说明你可能很焦虑，而焦虑会阻止你追求梦想。事实上，焦虑滋生于逃避，让你更不自信，而开始行动可以帮助你减少焦虑。
不过，如果这些不会发生呢？
Of course, if that were to happen, the dollar would almost certainly fall further and this might induce others to drop their pegs as well.
当然，如果出现这种情况，几乎可以肯定美元汇率将进一步下滑，这将促使其它国家也放弃与美元挂钩的汇率机制。
If I decided to go to California to Hollywood, if that was my dream, I'll make it happen.
如果我决定去加利福尼亚，去好莱坞，如果那是我的梦想，我会让它实现的。
And I thought deeply about this, and I concluded the worst thing that could happen is if we change our core values and let it slide.
我对此深思了一番，最后我得出结论，可能发生的最坏的事情，就是一旦我们改变了自己的核心价值然后随其自然。
If that doesn't happen, he's just unbelievably arrogant, or a psychopath.
如果他没这么做，那他就是个令人难以置信的自大狂，或者精神病患。
In fact, the biggest threat is that people believe the lies and stop recycling, because if that does happen it will be extremely hard to recover lost ground.
事实上，最让我们担心的是人们相信了那些谣言而停止对废物进行再利用，因为一旦那样的事情发生，我们就很难东山再起。
One thing which is obvious that will ultimately happen if you keep loading down, keep adding mass, it will break.
很明显,最终会发生,如果负重过大，一直加重量，它就会断裂。
He hopes to hire in 2011 - but that will happen only if he can convert those inquiries into hard orders.
他希望能在2011年雇些人——但是只有在这些问询变成确实的订单后才会这样做。
Now to make that happen, it's not adiabatic, right. If I wanted to do that, I'd need a heating element or something to cool, so I could make that temperature change happen, right.
要实现这点，它就不会是绝热的，对吧，如果我想做到这点，我需要一个加热元件或什么制冷的东西，这样我才能让温度变化。
Not that I want to get it over with, "he added hurriedly, aware of the things that could happen if Hastur turned in an unfavorable report."
他慌忙的加上后面一句，要知道，如果哈斯塔之流的人对他有什么负面报告的话，那情况就糟糕了。
Not that I want to get it over with, " he added hurriedly, aware of the things that could happen if Hastur turned in an unfavorable report.
他慌忙的加上后面一句，要知道，如果哈斯塔之流的人对他有什么负面报告的话，那情况就糟糕了。
The FAO reckons that, if this were to happen (which seems unlikely), it would divert a tenth of the world's cereal output from food to fuels.
粮农组织估计，如果这种情况发生(这似乎不大可能)，将分流世界谷物产量的十分之一到燃料生产方面。
But that can happen only if the treaty is ratified by all 27 members during 2008.
但是，只有在27个成员国在2008年批准这个条约的情况下，选举才可能进行。
A year later, if I happen to pick up that same book, I am lucky if I can remember the first thing about it.
一年之后，如果我偶然拿起同一本书，如果我还能记得关于它的第一件事儿，就算是幸运的了。
XML file editing should only happen if there is some configuration that has caused severe errors.
只有在某个配置导致严重错误的情况下才可以手动编辑XML文件。
Even if that doesn't happen, however, the fact is that the policy response to the crisis was and remains vastly inadequate.
然而，即便这种事情不会发生，事实是应对危机的政策过去是现在依然是远远不充足的。
It is to say that validation can happen any time if there are a certain number of defects found.
也就是说只要找到一定数量的缺陷，随时可能发生确认的活动。
My son wasn't questioning if something would happen; it was a given that it would.
我儿子不会问我一件事会不会发生；因为他知道这是肯定会有的。
The worst thing that can happen if you ask is that you don't get it.
如果你去“索要”了，最坏的结果就是你没有得到你“索要”的。
I hope to have it put in a future issue, but if that doesn't happen, I'm still having fun. Enjoy!
我希望我的文章能出现在未来的某期杂志中，如果没有的话，我还是会享受每期杂志的。
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