| 单词 | were it not for |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswere it not for d. were it not for (also if it were not for): forming conditional clauses expressing exception. ΚΠ 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i. xxx. f. xlvi/2 Were yt not for the spyryte of god keping ye trouth therof in hys chyrch who could be sure whych were the very gospels? 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Qiiiiv Citiziens, whoes lawes & ordenaunces if it were not for feare he wold nothing at al esteme. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 7 Were it not for..profaneness, these men would be dull, and (as we say) dead on the nest. 1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §190 Were it not for this [fire], the whole wou'd be one great stupid inanimate mass. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxx. 354 We should not have minded this, were it not for the thought that we should be off Cape Horn in the very dead of winter. 1962 P. Scott Birds of Paradise (1967) II. i. 95 I would include Father were it not for the fact that I don't think he did any prodding. 2007 A. Enright Gathering (2008) xvii. 111 A small-print floral dress in lilac—very like a housecoat print, if it were not for the exotic background of inky black. < as lemmas |
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