要不是

The figures were smiling coquettishly and altogether looked as though, had it not been for the necessity of supporting the candlestick, they would have skipped off the pedestal and have indulged in an ''.'orgy'.'' such as is improper for the reader even to imagine.

那两个女人撩人心弦地微笑着，总之从外貌来看，要不是她们必须支撑烛台，似乎就会从台座上跳下来，在房间里打打闹闹，可是那样的情景，读者诸君，就连想一下都是不成体统的。

I shall like my country well enough,if it is not for my countrymen .

我很爱我的祖国，要不是有同胞的话。

I'm sick and tired of my job. If it weren't for the family, I'd like to cut and run.

我烦透了我的工作，要不是为了家人，我很想辞职走人了。

If not depraved by early debauchery, his life would have been fit for better things

要不是早年放荡堕落，他一生也会做出比较出色的事情的。

As long as not due to calcium deficiency or disease caused by it is generally not affect the future growth and development of bones.

只要不是由于缺钙或疾病所致，一般来说是不会影响今后的骨骼生长发育的。

Leaves, too, look like, and dern if these ain't blossoms.

好像还有树叶，还有这些，要不是花才怪呢。

Only that I know you might be wanted,I should detain you a little longer.

要不是知道有人会找你，我会留你多呆一会儿。

They was scared to tell him, and he might of never knowed only for Paul Dickson.

他们不敢告诉他，要不是保罗·迪克森，他也许永远不会知道。

Indeed, I shouldn't have discovered that he had been there, except for the disarrangement of the drapery about the corpse's face, and for observing on the floor a curl of light hair, fastened with a silver thread; which, on examination, I ascertained to have been taken from a locket hung round Catherine's neck.

的确，要不是死人脸上的盖布有点乱，而且我看见地板上有一绺淡色的头发，我都不会发现他来过了。那头发是用一根银线扎着的，仔细一看，我断定是从凯瑟琳脖子上挂着的一只小金盒里拿出来的。

Indeed, I shouldnt have discovered that he had been there, except for the disarrangement of the drapery about the corpses face, and for observing on the floor a curl of light hair, fastened with a silver thread; which, on examination, I ascertained to have been taken from a locket hung round Catherines neck.

的确，要不是死人脸上的盖布有点乱，而且我看见地板上有一绺淡色的头发，我都不会发现他来过了。那头发是用一根银线扎着的，仔细一看，我断定是从凯瑟琳脖子上挂着的一只小金盒里拿出来的。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。