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He did nothing but piddle away the time.

他不做事，只是混日子。

He did nothing but piddle away the time .

他不做事，只是混日子。。。。词形变化

Of course on the grand scheme of things their relationship is nothing but piffle.

当然，在大计划中的关系是什么，但废话。

Our boss is nothing but a penny—pincher so most of the employees want to quit.

我们的老板是个十足的吝啬鬼，大多数员工都想辞职。

In Waugh's novella based on his own painful experience, when Pinfold concludes that hidden technology is being used to infiltrate his brain, he "felt nothing but gratitude in his discovery."

根据自己的惨痛经验所写的Waugh的中篇小说，当Pinfold得出结论，不可告人的技术正在被用来侵入他的大脑。他"只感谢他自己的发现。"

Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.

尼采曾说，很长一段时期，商人和海盗并不分你我。

"MERCHANT and pirate were for a long period one and the same person," wrote Friedrich Nietzsche. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.

"商人和海盗很长一段时间都是同一类人"尼采写道，哪怕今天的商业道德也只不过是海盗道义的翻版。

It is nothing but a placeholder.

它只是一个占位符。

Although, in the main, personal opinions are reined in, occasionally a flash of the entry-writer's personality comes through:"Coleridge has been variously described as a political turncoat, a drug addict, a plagiarist, and a mystic humbug, whose wrecked career left nothing but a handful of magical early poems."

尽管大体上看主观思想受到控制，但亦存在偶然间词条编撰者的个性闪光得以迸发："柯尔律治受到了多方评论，并被冠以政治上的叛徒、药瘾者、剽窃犯、诡异悬疑的伪君子等众多称呼，他那毁于一旦的职业生涯仅仅留下一部部令人叹为观止的早年诗篇。"

She said nothing, but began to plait the sheets once more.

她没有说一句话，仍旧折她的被单。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。