if not for

常见例句

If not for the police he might be alive today," she says.
如果不是因为警察那么他今天还会活着，” 她说。
If not for this small optimization, we would go through every element twice.
如果不是由于这个小小的优化，我们将遍历每个元素两次。
If not for the suffering I endured, I would never have had the influence I have today.
如果不是因为我遭受的那些苦难，我就不会有今天的影响力。

But many more would have died if not for a tsunami warning from the Japanese Meteorological Agency.
If you want to control a program file, open, copy, paste not get me ready for my trip to Stanford.
如果想要掌控一项程序文件，打开，复制粘贴，并不会铺平通向斯坦福的路。
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This is really, I think, a radical if not heretical idea for the national poet of a Christian people.
我真的觉得这是，激进的，甚至是异端邪说,对一个基督教国家的诗人来说。
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