Translate the sentences paying attention to the condition (real or unreal).
- When it comes to lying, if you have to create something, you would want to pause longer because you would want to be careful about what you are going to say.
- We did a study showing that if we want to stabilize temperatures through emission reductions, they would need to be cut to zero.
- The problem is you would have to grow corn on some pretty rocky soils. It's not clear that you would get more production even if climate favors them.
- If these kinds of terrible conditions start becoming commonplace we would be facing a situation where many people are starving from power plants, which exert a cooling influence today.
- Any attempt to proscribe such technologies will not only deprive human society of profound benefits, but will drive these technologies underground, which would make the dangers worse.
- If cheaper means of synthesis cannot be discovered, it would make it financially impossible to apply this technology to commercial-scale applications.
- If more general systems are likely to emerge, we would be foolish to omit them from our calculations.
- If dark matter particles are their own antiparticles, the energy released when they annihilate themselves would heat up the planets far more than mere collisions with atoms.
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A different situation is where one part of a sentence refers to the present while the other deals with the past time.
Translate the sentences.
- Who would have guessed that a lowly trash bag might hold the key to sending humans to Mars?
- Whatever the dark matter is, it must interact weakly with ordinary matter; otherwise it would have shown itself in other ways.
- The technology of the IGBT was introduced into the European industrial laboratory two or three years before it would normally have been.
- If the value of some of these parameters had been even slightly different, the nuclear processes that power stars would likely have been disrupted, and without stars the Universe would be a very different place.
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Inversion is frequently used in sentences with unreal condition.
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- Were the value any bigger, space would expand so quickly that the Universe would lack the structures that life requires. In a way, then, our very existence predicts the low value of the constant.
- This straightforward technique might already be in common use, were it not for the drawbacks associated with light-sensitive materials.
- Had that material been maintained in the atmosphere it would have been more than enough to offset all the global warming expected this century.
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