Asif

基本解释

It’s as if every worker in the city of Los Angeles received an unexpected layoff notice.
它就好像每个在洛杉矶的工人意外收到一份临时解雇通知。
When you live congruently, it’s as if all the different parts of your life lock into new positions to form a new whole that’s greater than all the individual pieces.
当你活出了一致性，这感觉就像你生活中的所有不同部分都锁定在一个全新的位置上组成了一个整体，这个整体比所有单独的部分要好太多了。
It’s as if the United States had no Treasury Department, and a state that had borrowed heavily from banks in other states got into serious financial trouble, like Greece.
这就好比假如美国没有联邦财政部，而其中一个州从其他州的银行借了沉重的债务，像希腊一样陷入严重的财政困境。

He seemed to kill for no reason, and with no emotion, as if taking someone's life meant nothing.
In Lycidas, Milton looks back at the Elder Brother's theodicy, and it's almost as if he's attempting to test its validity.
在这首诗中，弥尔顿回顾了《科玛斯》中哥哥的斯奥迪斯，似乎是在验证斯奥迪斯正确与否。
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It's as if his knowledge of his own conception, his own birth, his own babyhood, is a natural knowledge.
好像他很自然地知道自己是胚胎时的故事，知道自己如何出生以及自己的童年。
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And Alberto Gonzales says that it's as if they don't - I'm sorry, Ruben Navarrette says it's as if they don't even appreciate the importance that Alberto Gonzales holds as a Hispanic role model.
NPR: Political Corner: Gonzales