what-if
假设,万一,假如,如果
Definitions
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- : hypothetical: a what-if scenario.
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- : a hypothetical case or situation; conjecture: a series of what-ifs.
Examples
So it's really a take-what-you-can-get kind of situation with him.
Played in reverse that becomes ‘Here’s me/Here I am/What we have lost/I am the messenger of love.
If this seems like a small, so-what kind of thing to you, I submit two thoughts.
It requires that likely answers be anticipated, that elaborate “if/then” scenarios be war-gamed.
If they abused that power, it would be noticed-if not by the press, then by their colleagues, and if noticed, then punished.
Coals!what would he do with coals?Toast his cheese with em, and then come back for more.
Ay, murmured the sick woman, relapsing into her former drowsy state, what about her?what aboutI know!
Consequently, while the direction of the what-not-how-now line is definitely fixed, their actual positions remain unestablished.
"Nothing what-ever," she answered, with an urbanity that defied the suggestion of malice.
But, brother sinner, pray explain How 'tis that you are not in pain?What power hath work'd a wonder for your toes?