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

若不是下面两点，这种似乎是有道理。

Have a holly jolly Christmas and in case you didn't hear.

有冬青树欢乐圣诞节，未听到。

If you want to trick your spouse into thinking you were doing yard work.

想骗过另一半，让他以为去院子里了。

If it is not there, you don't have to worry.

没有，也不必担心。

So you know who to call in case of roof leaks or power goes out.

屋顶漏雨或者停电了就知道该给谁打电话了。

If hiding isn't the answer, what if we did the opposite?

如果隐藏并不是解决问题答案, 我们方向而行之了呢?

If you didn't have to swap your time for money, what would you do?

不需要以时间换取金钱，会做什么？

39 When I asked my master, 'What if the woman will not follow me? , '

38 我对我主人说：女儿不愿跟我来怎麽办？

Suppose that we had some disease.

有种疾病。

Many workmen aren't mobile, if they move to new employment they have difficulties in moving their families.

许多人是不具备流动性，他们换了新，他们便在迁居方面有了困难。

If you happen to lose a job or not get a paycheck, you can live infinitely forever.

碰巧失去了或是没有得到资，可以永远存活下去。

If penicillin had not been available, many people would have died from sickness or even small wounds.

青霉素没有得到应用，许多人将死于疾病甚至小创伤。

If oxen, horses, and lions could draw, they would depict gods that looked like oxen, horses, and lions!

牛、马、狮子会画图，一定也会把天神画成牛、马、狮子模样。

I will wait for you here if you will drive out again. Or perhaps you are too tired?

愿意再来，我可以在这里等。可是太累了吧？

If the roof of the house had suddenly flown off, the old gentleman wouldn't have been more astonished.

这所房子屋顶突然被风刮掉了，老绅士也不会更惊奇。

The simulation, in other words, is not just finding correlations: It is answering What if questions.

换句话说，这种模拟并不仅仅是寻找关联性：它是在回答‘将会怎么样’问题。

Had the ancient Greek ship sunk in the Mediterranean, for example, there would likely be no organic material left today.

这艘古希腊船只在地中海沉没，很可能现今就不会留下任何有机材料。

For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.

那等人是徒，行事诡诈，装基督徒模样。

Oh, if only the prince would kiss her...

王子能够吻醒她。

If she had grown up in this garden without knowing anything at all about nature, how would she feel about the spring?

她生长在这花园中，对于大自然一无所知，那么她对春天会有什么感觉呢?