查询词典 were it not for

The chimney-sweep and the little shepherdess looked piteously at the old Chinaman, for they were afraid he might nod; but he was not able: besides, it was so tiresome to be always telling strangers he had a rivet in the back of his neck.

扫烟囱的人和牧羊女望着这位老中国人，样子很可怜，因为他们害怕他会点头答应。但是他现在不能点头了，他同时又觉得怪不好意思告诉一个生人，说自己颈子里牢牢地钉着一根钉子。因此这一对瓷人就成为眷属了。他们祝福老祖父的那根钉子；他们相亲相爱，直到他们碎裂为止。

Not so, however, the Comitia Curiata or Comitia Tributa, They were fettered on this point by the sacredness with which the person of a Roman citizen, inside the walls of the city, was invested by religion and law; and, with respect to the last of them, the Comitia Tributa, we know for certain that it became a fixed principle that the Assembly of the Tribes could at most impose a fine.

因此，"兵员民会"可以科处死刑。

Nkrumah"s African Socialism was rich and complicated, this paper chiefly summed up in four areas: 1、Communalism Socialism was the core of his African Socialism, it does not only embody that Nkrumah was longing for primitive communalism, but also invisibly reflected Nkrumah"s diverse cultural characteristics. 2、Class division and class struggle were important links of his theory.

恩克鲁玛非洲社会主义思想丰富而庞杂，本文将它主要概括为四个方面： 1、村社社会主义是恩克鲁玛非洲社会主义思想的核心，它不仅体现了恩克鲁玛对原始村社制度的向往，也无形地折射出恩克鲁玛多元的文化特征。

But there was no job like that available for guitarists so it was not possible to set up a guitar faculty, I entered the conservatoire as an unofficial, self-paid student at the beginning, so that my parents were very reluctant to put me into the conservatoire, I had a huge fight with them.

这是一个巧合，当我回顾时，我觉得不是我挑了吉他，而是吉他挑了我，在我们的家庭成员中是完全没有搞音乐的，在这时期我亦对吉他一无所知，我仍然记得当时我爸爸给我买的吉他值3美元，是我第一次见到这乐器。

As it turns out, the conversion rate for the words we thought we needed were not great.

事实证明，转换率的话，我们认为我们需要不是很大。

I suppose that I should have had it ready, but I had heard that passports were not yet required for land crossings.

我猜想，我应该已经准备就绪，但我听说，护照还没有所需的陆路口岸。

I daresay now if I were to ask you for a kiss you wouldn't give it me: you'd say you'd rather not.

我想要是我现在要求吻你一下，你是不会答应的，你会说，还是不要吧。

Not sibylline but clear, empty weather; of the eight kinds of sky it was the milk-paled potion most like a cup of coffee she poured past full in such a way as to show herself how good she was, how the liquid lolled just over the white cup's rim, just so the instant before an apology, until the surface broke and color seeming singular though made of mix came sweetly over the sides after which she could never think of herself as perfect again, falling deeper into bright degradation as one falls down a well with great relief, forgetting on the way how as a child she make her father stop at every corner so she could sketch in her daybook the cross street and what stores were where, using his back for a desk.

不神秘且晴朗空寂的天气；在八类天象中它属奶白一族最似她倒得溢出的一杯咖啡，她倒成那样摆显给自己看她如何有能耐，那液体如何恰好溢过白杯的杯沿，就在道歉要出口前打住，直至表面裂开那看似单一实则混成的色彩顺着杯沿甜蜜地流下，那以后她再也无法认为自己是完美的了，却在辉煌的降格中陷落得更深，如同一个人带着极大的解脱感落入一口井，在下落时忘却了小时候她让父亲在每一个街角停下，如此她能以父亲的背当桌在本子上描画对过的街道和店铺。

We did not have the space for an exhaust hood in our new design, however, we felt it was very important to vent the cooking fumes outside so we chose a downdraft system with the fan housed underneath the cooking top, and we were able to vent directly outside though a duct that was only 4 feet long.

我们没有尾气敞篷的空间在我们新的设计，然而，我们感到放气烹调发烟外部是非常重要的，因此我们选择了与在烹调上面之下被安置的风扇的向下通风系统，并且我们能直接地发泄外部，虽然只是4英尺长的输送管。

For example, in the issue in which Life stated editorially that it would folly the Second International, there were over forty words constructions, and meanings which are in the Third International but not in the Second.

比如，《生活》杂志曾在某一期中发表一篇社论，声明它要以《韦氏国际英语词典》为准，可就在这一期的《生活》杂志上却出现了四十多个见之于第三版却未见于第二版的词汇、结构与意义。

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。