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If it were not for the P.L.A, the villagers could not survive the flood diaster.

如果不是因为那些解放军，村民们在这次洪灾中都不能幸免。

Generally speaking, if it were not for their help, we would not have been so successful.

但总的来说，没有他们的帮助，我们不可能有这样大的成绩。

The problems were designed not only to get them a working knowledge of the mechanics of combat but to teach the most basic thing an infantryman has to know: how to love the ground, how to use it to advantage, haw the terrain dictates tactics, above all how to live on it and in it for days at a time without impairment of physical efficiency.

所设计的问题不仅给他们一些战斗机制运作方面的知识，而且教会他们步兵必须了解的基本知识：如何判读地形，如何利用有利地形，如何根据地形采取不同战术，尤其是如何在地面生存，在不影响体能的情况下一次在地面生存好几天。

Insects would make it impossible for us to live in the world; they would devour all our crops and killour flocks and herds, if it were not for the protection we get from insect-eating animals.

昆虫就将会使我们无法在这个世界上居住；如果我们没有受到以昆虫为食的动物的保护，昆虫就会吞嚼掉我们所有的庄稼并杀死我们饲养的禽兽。

Observe," said Villefort, smiling,"I do not mean to deny that both these men were revolutionary scoundrels, and that the 9th Thermidor and the 4th of April, in the year 1814, were lucky days for France, worthy of being gratefully remembered by every friend to monarchy and civil order; and that explains how it comes to pass that, fallen, as I trust he is forever, Napoleon has still retained a train of parasitical satellites.

请注意，"维尔福微着笑说，"我并不是在否认我刚才说的这两个人都是闹革命的混蛋，我承认热月九日［热月九日是罗伯斯庇尔等人被捕的日子。］和四月四日［这里指的是1814年4月初拿破仑退位被囚的日子］是法国并不幸运的两个日子，是值得王朝和文明社会的朋友们庆祝的日子，我想说的是，虽然我想信拿破仑已永远一蹶不振，但他却仍然拥有一批狂热的信徒。

My palms dampened as I saw water rippled under the wings and thought chances were good we ended up in the sea water if it were not for the expertise of the pilots.

当我看见机翼下的水波时，手心都湿透了。如果不是飞行员技术精湛的话，我们太可能降落在海水里了。

It was a shame not to have done it against Nastic because the fans were really up for it, ready to invade the pitch and everything, to celebrate.

没有能在对阵塔拉哥纳的比赛中夺冠是一个耻辱，因为如果我们在主场卡尔德隆球场夺冠，球迷们可以冲进场内于我们一起庆祝。

Not only were public pensions systems becoming unaffordable in Asia, they were also inadequate for most pensioners, it said.

报告称，亚洲国家不仅在逐渐变得无力支付公共养老金，并且对大多数领取养老金生活的人来说，当前数额已显不足。

With beauty's treasure, ere it be self-kill'd.That use is not forbidden usury,Which happies those that pay the willing loan;That's for thyself to breed another thee,Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;Ten times thyself were happier than thou art,If ten of thine ten times refigured thee:Then what could death do, if thou shouldst depart,Leaving thee living in posterity?

这样的借贷并不是违禁取利，既然它使那乐意纳息的高兴；这是说你该为你另生一个你，或者，一个生十，就十倍地幸运；十倍你自己比你现在更快乐，如果你有十个儿子来重现你：这样，即使你长辞，死将奈你何，既然你继续活在你的后裔里？

Borrowing from Herbert Simon and also influenced by the ideas of existential phenomenologists such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Martin Heidegger, McClamrock suggests that man's condition of being-in-the-world ("Dasein","In-der-welt-sein") makes it impossible for him to understand himself by abstracting away from it and examining it as if it were a detached experimental object of which he himself is not an integral part.

借鉴Herbert Simon，受到存在主义现象学家梅洛-庞蒂（Maurice Merleau-Ponty）和海德格尔的影响，McClamrock提出了这样的看法：人的状况是&在世界之中存在&（&Dasein&，&In-der-welt-sein&），但人们却想采用了从这种状况中抽离出来并检验它的方法来理解他自己，就好像这种状态是一个被分开的经验性对象，对它来说他不是一个整合而不可分的部分，这是不可能成功的。

According to the clear water experiment, aeration performance of the new equipment is good with high total oxygen transfer coefficient and oxygen utilization ratio.

曝气设备的动力效率在叶轮转速为120rpm～150rpm时取得最大值，此时氧利用率和充氧能力也具有较高值。

The environmental stability of that world - including its crushing pressures and icy darkness - means that some of its most famous inhabitants have survived for eons as evolutionary throwbacks, their bodies undergoing little change.

稳定的海底环境─包括能把人压扁的压力和冰冷的黑暗─意谓海底某些最知名的栖居生物已以演化返祖的样态活了万世，形体几无变化。