If only we could be as giving and generous and understanding as my father was.

如果我们能作为给予和慷慨和理解是我的父亲。

youdao

The mag says she's 165 centimeters tall and 38 kilos. If only we could be that thin then…

杂志上说她165公分高，38公斤重。如果我们可以跟她一样瘦，那就……

youdao

"' on the assembly line, people can sit and work for eight or ten hours without rest, 'he said.' If only we could learn that way, how good it would be! '".

他说，‘在产品装配线前，工人可以在不休息的情况下连续工作八个小时，如果我们可以用这种方法学习，多好的一件事啊！’

youdao

These are bads of life that could presumably be avoided if only we knew how much exactly we had--how much longer we had.

生命中的一些坏处可以被认为是可避免的,只要我们知道我们到底还有多少，还有多少时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Well, if it really was true then that if only we faced the facts about our mortality that we would live life rather differently, ? how could it be reasonable for us to disregard those facts?

如果这真的是真的,那么只要我们面对我们必有一死的事实,我们就会选择不同的生活，无视这些事实又怎么可能是合理的？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The philosopher Spinoza thought that ... if we could only recognize the fact, what he at least took to be the fact, that everything that happens in life is necessary, then we'd get a kind of emotional distance from it; it would no longer upset us.

哲学家Spinoza认为,如果我们能够认识到这个事实，至少他认为这是事实，即生活中的一切事情都是必然的，那么它对我们的情绪影响就比较少;,它不会再让我们感到痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

This would be correct only if we could be confident that the right number of permits had been issued, which unfortunately we cannot be.

ECONOMIST: Farming the land

We like to assume that all will be well if only we could put a stop to RTOs, securitizations, derivatives, junk bonds, LBOs, hedge funds, leveraged EFTs (not really an ethical thing, but something that has been similarly demonized), sell-side analysts, and as anything else that comes our way in the future.

FORBES: Reverse Takeovers: The Poor Man's IPO Deserves Some Respect

We look in the mirror and wonder what it would be like if and only if we could lose 15 pounds, had a smaller nose, longer eyelashes, a bigger (or smaller) chest, longer legs, so forth.

FORBES: You Can't Hate Yourself Into Lasting Change