If there'd been a halfway decent house for rent on this island, I would have taken it. But it was no dice.
如果这座岛上有稍微像样的房子出租,我就租下来了。但连那样的房子都租不到。
《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
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Were it not for the nameless adventure that awaited them, they would have thrown a pair of dice each evening and agreed that two sixes would end it all.