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Question

سلام دوستان  در یک متن قدیمی قرن 18 ای فلسفی با چنین ترکیبی برخوردم:

Every pleasure languishes when enjoy'd a-part from company, and every pain becomes more cruel and intolerable. Whatever other passions we may be actuated by; pride, ambition, avarice, curiosity, revenge or lust; the soul or animating principle of them all is sympathy; nor would they have any force, were we to abstract entirely from the thoughts and sentiments of others.
یعنی چی اونوقت؟ و آیا قاعده ای گرامری وجود دارد که میشه راحت جای فعل و فاعل را عوض کرد؟

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Answer 1

were we to ... = if we were to ... = اگر قرار بود ما فلان کار رو بکنیم