| EXAMPLE SENTENCES | ||
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若非青春苦短，谁会想来日方长。 Were it not for youth is short, and who would want to still time. | ||
若非必要，不要使用电话的免提功能。 Don't use a speaker phone unless absolutely necessary. | ||
若非如此，楼市和消费市场将会更加糟糕。 Without it, home prices and consumer spending would have fallen by much more. | ||
人到四十，若非蠢材，当知调摄。 At forty every man is a fool or his own physician. | ||
若非圣贤所传述的正经书，一定摒弃不看。 Unless they are proper books written by sages, we should avoid reading them. | ||
所以，现在他把车停在家里，若非必要很少开车。 So now, he leaves the car at home, and only uses it for things he thinks are really necessary. | ||
不过，若非是鸿运当头，他也许不可能取得现在的成就。 But he might not have got far had it not been for a stroke of luck. | ||
若非别人问起，不要对皇室、英国经济或《每日邮报》的头条新闻评头品足。 Avoid giving unsolicited opinions about the Royal family, the British economy, the headlines in the Daily Mail or any other sensitive issue. | ||
给自己一个强有力的理由或目标，若非如此，你在生活中会感到步履维艰。 Give yourself a strong reason or target, if not, you will feel in your life. | ||
斯考特是一名纯素食者，并且表示若非如此他不可能完成比赛。 Scott is a vegan and says that there's no way he'd be able to compete if he weren't vegan. | ||
