if not for

常见例句

If not for the police he might be alive today," she says.
如果不是因爲警察那麽他今天還會活著，” 她說。
If not for this small optimization, we would go through every element twice.
如果不是由於這個小小的優化，我們將遍歷每個元素兩次。
If not for the suffering I endured, I would never have had the influence I have today.
如果不是因爲我遭受的那些苦難，我就不會有今天的影響力。

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.
如果想要掌控一項程序文件，打開，複制粘貼，竝不會鋪平通曏斯坦福的路。
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This is really, I think, a radical if not heretical idea for the national poet of a Christian people.
我真的覺得這是，激進的，甚至是異耑邪說,對一個基督教國家的詩人來說。
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It might not have been so if not for the foresight of President Dwight D.
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Projects like OpenStack would not exist if not for his contributions to the sector.
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