英语释义

1. in the absence of (something or someone) without
If not for modern medicine, fewer babies would survive. If not for him, I wouldn't be where I am today.

片语

If not for u有里知花

If Not Necessarily For如果不必然为

If Not For Hunting如果不用来打猎

if not for you若非因为你（歌曲名）

If Not For Marriage如果不为婚姻

If Not For John要不约翰

only that...只是；要不是

If Not For Today要不今天

If Not For Him如果不因为他

If Not For Yourself如果不为自己

英汉例句

• Contemporary music would not be what it is if not for the influences of the past.

  如果不是过去音乐的影响，就不会有我们现在流行的当代音乐。

• Releasing games only in certain regions wouldn「t be so bad, if not for the region locks that restrict game machines to playing software from a single territory.

  如果不为游戏机设置区码锁使它不能玩其他地区的游戏，那么只在特定区域发售游戏还不算太糟。

• I」ll be writing more about that in an upcoming post, but the point I「m trying to make is that this blog woudn」t exist if not for those experiments.

  我将在接下来的一篇博文中对此做更多的讲述，但在本文我想说的是：如果没有那些实验，这个博客就不会存在。

• He knew that if not for Moira, their marriage would not have contained enough happiness to keep him and Colleen together.

  他明白，如果不是有莫伊拉，他在婚姻中体会到的幸福不足以让他和科琳守着对方。

• It propels us to find solutions to problems we never would have considered if not for adversity.

  它驱使我们去寻找解决问题的方法，如果不是挫折，也许我们永远不会考虎到这些的。

• Many of these new friends are amazing people that I「d never have had the opportunity to know otherwise, if not for the blog.

  这些新朋友都是很有趣的人，如果不是因为博客，我永远也不会有机会认识他们。

• This wouldn」t be especially remarkable if not for the fact that physical power is less and less needed in our society - even in the military.

  事实上，如果不是因为在我们的社会里，身体力量变小了，对其的需求也变小了-甚至在军队里亦如此的话，这并没有什么特别值得注意的。

• It is hard to imagine that our world as we know it, and all that is familiar to us, would likely not exist if not for the Moon.

  很难想象，如果不是月球，我们现在所知的这个世界，以及对我们来说非常熟悉的一切，很可能不存在。

• The horse, called Gracie (so am I), was unable to free itself and could have been in danger if not for a passer-by who was able to come to the rescue after he heard the horse whinnying .

  这匹名叫格雷西的马，头卡在树里出不来了，要不是路人听到它的嘶叫声赶来救它很可能就有生命危险啦。

• You might not see her again, but don「t break ties on a bad note — if not for your own pride, then because all girls talk.

  你也许不会再见到她，但是别尽欢而散后就不再联系。如果不是因为你的自尊心，那就是因为所有的女人都喜欢八卦。

• 「He has no business winning here, if not for the fact that he’s great at retail politics and delivering federal dollars for the district,」 says David Wasserman, an analyst with the report.

  「他在这里没有获胜机会，如果不是他的“零售」政治和善于为选取争取联邦资金，”大卫瓦瑟曼该报告的一个分析师评价。

• Samantha, if not for today, not for you ...I would never have known love at all.

  莎曼塔，要不是今天，要不是你……我永远不会懂得爱情。

• They might never have found him if not for another family who」d also lost a son to the brick factories.

  如果不是因为另一个在砖厂丢失了儿子的家庭，他们可能永远都找不到他。

• Why, if not for effect, did Mr Marin announce his appeal on live breakfast radio?

  如果不是为了炒作，为什么马林在早餐时段的广播说他决定提起上诉？

• In those cases, it might make sense to consider a tool specifically built for handling XML, if not for that explicit task.

  在多数情况下，如果不是针对明确的任务，考虑专为处理XML而构建的工具将更有意义。

• Either the stimulus has been a failure or things were worse than we originally thought; unemployment might be even higher today if not for the stimulus.

  刺激是无效的还是事情没我们想象的那么遭：如果没有刺激的话，失业率也许会比现在的更高。

• As a matter of fact the holiest of men have been some of the shrewdest, for their friends at least, if not for themselves.

  事实上，最神圣的的人群某种意义上又是最精明的，如果不为自身，至少为他们的朋友。

• This combination suggests that spending would still be falling if not for the tax cuts in the stimulus.

  这种组合表明如果不是因为减税的刺激，开支仍然会下降。

• Instead, these images draw the visitor into your site, if not for their content then for their humongous size.

  实际上这些巨大的图片吸引浏览者进入你的网站，如果不是因为内容那就是因为巨大的图片尺寸。