The nets captured a few more trout than they would have without the flood but did not show substantial flushing of native fish, whose ancestors had, after all, survived many larger natural floods.

与没有洪水时相比，渔网捕获了更多的鳟鱼，但并没有显示本地鱼类的大量泛滥，毕竟它们的祖先在许多更大的自然洪水中幸存了下来。

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The new age of machinery, in short, could not have been born without a new source of both movable and constant power.

总之，如果没有一种新的可持续提供动力并且可移动的能源，就没有新机械化时代的产生。

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The second hypothesis seems unlikely because large pterosaurs could not have landed in trees without damaging their wings.

第二种假设似乎不太可能，因为大型翼龙不可能在不损害翅膀的情况下降落在树上。

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The largest object ever put into space -- the International Space Station -- could not have been built without the shuttle program.

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The account of the conquest in Joshua 2 through 12, is concerned to express the basic idea that Israel's victories would not have been possible without Yahweh, without his wondrous help.

在《约书亚书》第2到12章中记叙的征服，想要表达一种基本的观点,以色列不可能获胜，如果没有耶和华，没有他神奇的帮助。

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I would have poured my spirit without stint But not through wounds; not on the cess of war.

我会毫不吝啬的盈满我的灵魂,但绝不是通过创伤才走向成熟，也不是靠幸运赢得战争。

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If a storm hit, a plant or two would have been knocked out, but millions of people would not have been left without power, and radiation would not have spread over hundreds or even thousands of square miles.

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Efforts to achieve interoperability have previously not been coordinated, funding and grants have been distributed without common guidance and Federal public safety agencies have not achieved interoperability between themselves.

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But the reality is without it, we would not have gone 12 years without a terrorist attack.

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