增詞法（二十四）

(四)增補(bǔ)原文含蓄條件句中的省略部分

1)We didn't admit it (escape) was impossible. To do so would have been to surrender one of our few hopes.

我們認(rèn)為越獄不是不可能的。如果認(rèn)為不可能，那就等于把我們僅存的一點(diǎn)希望也放棄了。

2)In agreeing to what was already the status quo, Khrushchev would have had far more to gain than to lose.

假如赫魯曉夫已同意維持現(xiàn)狀，對(duì)他來說就會(huì)是得多失少。

3)At the time of Kennedy's assassination, Kissinger felt that a second term would have led either to greatness or to disaster.

肯尼迪遇刺時(shí)，基辛格認(rèn)為，如果肯尼迪再任一屆總統(tǒng)的話，大概不是立大功，就是闖大禍。

4)He could understand a passive opposition from Kennedy loyalists, but an open one would have dire consequences.

他了解到忠于肯尼迪的那些人在消極反對(duì)他，但是如果他們公開反對(duì)，那就會(huì)產(chǎn)生可怕的后果。

5)But without Adolf Hitler, there almost certainly would never have been a Third Reich.

然而如果沒有阿道夫·希特勒，那就幾乎可以肯定不會(huì)有第三帝國。