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。