I'll never forget the teacher who showed me that learning a foreign language could be fun and rewarding. Were it not for him, I would not be able to speak English as well as I do now.

我永远都不会忘记那位老师是他告诉我学外语是有趣的、有价值的。如果没有他我的英语说得不会像现在这样好。

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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。

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I do not know whether it were sorrow for him, but his cousin put on as sad a countenance as himself, and returned to her father.

我不知道是不是为他难过，可是他的表姐跟他一样地哭丧着脸，回到她父亲身边。

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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

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