This might be a plausible hypothesis were it not for two factors.

若不是下面两点，这种假使似乎是有道理的。

As for the size of newsrooms, things could have been much worse were it not for private equity.

至于新闻编辑部的规模，如果没有私募股权，情况可能会更糟。

Some writers believe that the phrase would soon have disappeared were it not for the American Civil War.

有的作家认为，如果不发生美国内战，这个表达原本会很快消失。

He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger .

他不由得一本正经地想道，要不是她的亲戚出身微贱，那我难免危险了。

Yeah, yeah, and were it not for your course, I wouldn't do it at all because I wasn't like that.

- 是的，是的，如果不是你的课程，我根本不会这样做，因为我不是那样的人。

There are many among us here today whose presence would be unimaginable were it not for their courage to ask why not me?

今天，我们当中有许多人是因为他们敢于提出“为什么不是我”的问题，他们才有存在。

However, Rhodes and Rudd would have foundered upon the  rocks of financial ruin, were it not for their ability to leverage debt.

然而，如果没有他们利用债务的能力，罗兹和陆克文可能会在财务崩溃的岩石上沉没。

Wirecard might still be one of Europe's most feted tech firms, were it not for a small band of sceptics—including Dan McCrum.

如果不是一小群怀疑论者（包括 Dan McCrum），Wirecard 可能仍然是欧洲最受欢迎的科技公司之一。

It's a story that we wouldn't be able to tell, were it not for the one thing that connects us vividly to our vast cosmos.

要讲述宇宙的故事，不能不提到这样一种东西，它将我们同无垠的宇宙紧紧联系。

We would've never done a show about the word " bliss" were it not for the following story, which is about a Bliss.

如果没有下面这个关于极乐的故事，我们永远不会制作一部关于“极乐”这个词的节目。

As Regis McKenna later said, " Woz designed a great machine, but it would be sitting in hobby shops today were it not for Steve Jobs."

正如里吉斯· 麦肯纳后来说的：“沃兹设计出了一台伟大的机器，但如果没有史蒂夫·乔布斯的话，这台机器到今天还只能陈列在业余爱好者的商店里。”

With what heart should I live here in my cottage, waiting for life's end, were it not for those hours of seeming idle reading?

如果不是为了那些看似无所事事的阅读时间， 我应该怀着什么样的心情住在我的小屋里， 等待生命的终结？

Do you think you would've had the intuitive idea of taking that movie and gender-swapping those roles were it not for the fact that you're a mother?

如果不是因为你是一位母亲，你觉得你会有直觉去翻拍这部电影并将这些角色进行性别互换吗？

As one acquaintance says, it would be tempting to describe him as larger than life, were it not for the fact that he is quite large in life.

就像他的一位熟人所说，人们很容易把他想的神乎其神，这并非基于他在生活中非常杰出的事实。

The Supreme Court's decision means that Eduardo Cunha will now face trial which might have happened much sooner were it not for his privileges as a sitting politician.

对于库尼亚受贿一案，法院将不日开庭审判，作为现任政界要员，这显然不是库尼亚的特权。

" But people seem to fear these journeys at government expense. And were it not for these journeys, we would not be sitting here as we are sitting now" .

“但人们似乎害怕这些由政府出资的旅行。如果没有这些旅行， 我们就不会像现在这样坐在这里” 。

It's perhaps worth noting that many of the objects in this series we wouldn't know much about, were it not for the work of thousands of people-archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and many others.

如果没有考古学家、人类学家、历史学家等人的辛勤工作，许多历史物品对我们来说都毫无意义。

So the rich countries of the world, the United States, Canada, Europe and so forth, Russia, Japan would actually be declining in population, Russia most certainly is, were it not for immigration.

因此，世界上的富裕国家， 美国、加拿大、欧洲等，俄罗斯、日本的人口实际上会下降， 如果没有移民， 俄罗斯肯定会下降。

The proportion between their values, he seems to think, must necessarily be the same as that between their quantities, and would therefore be as one to twenty-two, were it not for this greater exportation of silver.

他似乎认为，它们的价值之间的比例必然与它们的数量之间的比例相同，因此，如果不是因为更多的白银出口，它们的比例将是一比二十二。

So when someone says that these African countries wouldn't have been able to care for and preserve their art were it not for the British, they'd done it for hundreds of years already, had they not?

因此，当有人说如果没有英国，这些非洲国家就无法保护和保存他们的艺术时，他们已经这样做了数百年了，不是吗？