If not for him, I would have been crushed under a collapsing tower.
如果不是因为他,我就已经在一座崩塌的塔下被压碎了。
If it were not for the fact that he was a billionaire, she would never have married him.
如果不是因为他是个亿万富翁,她不会嫁给他。
Green, a dentist from England, left most of his money to the nurse who worked for him if in 5 years she would not wear any kind of make-up or jewel or go out with men.
来自英国的牙医格林,把大部分钱留给为他工作的护士,如果5年内她不化妆、不戴首饰、不和男人交往,他就把钱留给她。
Later,he said: "If it were not for the high office I held, I would have taken him by the seat of the pants and the nape of the neck and thrown him out the window."
VOA: special.2010.08.12
If I'm told "not so much for you," you'll suffer relative to him.
如果有人跟我说“你不怎么聪明”,你就会因为他而受到我冷落。
"One soldier had been fighting in the jungles for years. And I don't know if it had affected him or not, but when the clerk handed him a tweed suit to try on he spent three hours searching through the fuzz for snipers."
VOA: special.2009.03.09
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