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Were it not for the extraordinarily strong capital position of our insurance companies, it would be inappropriate for us to buy defaulted bonds.

要不是因为我们旗下保险公司的财务实力雄厚，我们实在不太适合去买这种已发生问题的债券

Were it not for death's agony, he would have thought himself already in heaven: there, spread out upon newspapers on the kitchen table were literally hundreds of his favorite chocolate chip cookies.

如果不是因为承受着临死的痛苦，老人会认为自己到了天堂。那里，在厨房铺着报纸的桌子上，确切地说有数百个他最喜欢吃的巧克力小薄饼。

The ballads of Franz Schubert (1797-1828) and Carl Loewe (1796-1869) were both inherited from Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg (1760-1802). However, compared to Loewe's sustained ballad compositions and his leading position in this field, Schubert was nearly unknown. Were it not for the popularity and controversy of Erlk?nig (D 328), we might have difficulty in associating Schubert with ballads.

舒伯特(Franz Schubert， 1797-1828)与洛威(Carl Loewe， 1796-1869)之叙事曲虽皆传承於村史提克(Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg， 1760-1802)，但是相对於洛威的持续创作且於此领域中拥有重要地位，舒伯特在叙事曲的创作中却几近默默无名，若非《魔王》受到欢迎以及引发评论者对其的争议，时至今日，我们或许仍难以将舒伯特与叙事曲的创作联想在一起。

Jupiter was arrayed in a "brigandine" or shirt of mail of black velvet thickly studded with gilt nails, on his head was a helmet embellished with silver-gilt buttons, and but for the rouge and the great beard which covered respectively the upper and lower half of his face, but for the roll of gilded pasteboard in his hand studded with iron spikes and bristling with jagged strips of tinsel, which experienced eyes at once recognised as the dread thunder-bolt, and were it not for his flesh-coloured feet, sandalled and beribboned á la Grecque, you would have been very apt to mistake him for one of M.

朱庇特身著锁子铠，上罩金色大钮扣的黑绒外套，头戴镀金的银扣子的尖顶头盔；若非他脸上的胭脂和浓须各遮住面部的一半，若非他手执一个缀满金属饰片、毛刺刺布满金箔条子的金色纸板圆筒——明眼人一看便知道它代表霹雳②，若非他两只光脚按照希腊方式饰着彩带，那么，他那身威严的装束，真可以同贝里公爵禁卫军中布列塔尼的弓箭手相媲美了。

Lithops could not survive in many areas that they are found were it not for their capacity to store water.

lithops无法生存，在许多地区，他们发现，如果没有自己的能力，以利蓄水。

It could have been't ,were it not for two factors,First leading groups are unwilling to accept of people have private arms ,for some reasons the private arms have never been enterminated ,these always formed quickly in some periods ,andpassionately merged into real military groups till bit by bit is stronger enough to unhorse an empire.

如果不是两个方面的原因，这种情况就应该不会发生，一方面原因是统治集团不希望民间私人武装的存在，但出于一些情况私人武装从来没被完全的取缔过，某些时期这些武装总是迅速的壮大，激烈地汇聚成真正意义上的军事集团，直到一点点的力量聚集足以推翻一个王国。

Squatting, lying, and milling aimlessly about the lower level were a dozen of so large lizard-like beasts that looked like the product of some mad geneticist's cross of Tatooine krayt dragons wit h Haruun Kal ankkoxen : four meters tall at the shoulder, long crooked legs that ended in five-clawed feet clearly designed for scaling rocky cliffs, ten meters of powerful tail ridged with spines and tipped with a horn-bladed mace, a flexible neck leading up to an armor-plated head that sported an impressive cowl of spines of its own—they looked fearsome enough that Obi-Wan might have thought them some sort of dangerous wild predators or vi cious watchbeasts, were it not for the docile way they tolerated the team of Utai wranglers who walked among them, hosing them down, scraping muck from their scales, and letting them take bundles of greens from their hands.

在下层那儿，蹲着的，躺着的，或是在漫无目的地殴斗的，是整整一打类似蜥蜴的巨型野兽，它们看上去就像是某个科学狂人将塔图因的克雷特巨龙和哈伦·卡尔的安科森兽糅合在一起的成品：肩高四米，长而弯曲的腿的末梢长着五根用于攀登岩壁的爪子，十米长的强壮尾部上扎满了尖刺，末端是一个尖角满布的骨槌，柔韧的颈部支撑着一个布满铠甲的脑袋，脑袋上又炫耀着一簇可怕的尖刺——它们的长相实在太恐怖了，使得欧比旺不禁觉得这些家伙不是危险的野生掠食者，就是冷血的守卫神兽，可恰恰相反，它们在那些尤泰牧人面前却表现得十分乖巧温顺，任由他们从中穿行，往它们身上浇水降温，从它们的鳞片上刮去污物，以及将一捆捆青草递到它们嘴边。

This would not be much of an event, were it not for the fact that all the recruits are Bushmen, the once traditional hunter-gatherers also known as San who roamed Southern Africa for thousands of years.

如果不是因为所有的新兵都是灌木族人的话，这并不是一件大事。灌木族也被称为San，他们是曾在南非生活了数千年的传统猎人和劳作者。

Were it not for these, and for the fact that a better day is dawning, I would not wish to live.--Blessed be God for the anti-slavery movement.

我就不用提及自己和其他黑人所遇到的诸多不便了，尽管上帝也是按自己的形象塑造了我们。

Were it not for these, and for the fact that a better day is dawning, I would not wish to live.--Blessed be God for the anti-slavery movement.

我就不用提及自己和其它黑人所遇到的诸多不便了，尽管上帝也是按自己的形象塑造了我们。

On closer examination, though, this is not a vote for multilateralism but just the opposite.

仔细审视后我们发现，这并非是对多边主义投出的赞成票，而是恰好相反。

Uncovering their weak spots, so I can defeat them.

揭露出他们的弱点，这样我就可以打败他们了。