不过是...

I am not on puepose to say my parter is a snake,it's just a figure of speech.

我并非真的说我的合伙人是条蛇，不过是打个比方。

Ronaldinho is capable of so much I guess his performance was nothing out of the ordinary for him, but he's a real crowd pleaser and his excitement infects the rest of the team.

小罗似乎无所不能，我猜他今天的表现对于他来说不过是举手之劳，但是他是个真正受人们欢迎的球员，而且他的兴奋也感染着队友。

All the ambitious buisiness we have is to have a chat sitting around the stove. And all the necessary removement we have is from one blue bed to another brown one.

我们所有的冒险事业只不过是围着炉子闲谈，所有的乔迁也不过是从一张蓝色的床搬到另一张棕色的铺上。

All the ambitious buisiness we have is to have a chatsitting around the stove. And all the necessary removement we haveis from one blue bed to another brown one.

我们所有的冒险事业只不过是围着炉子闲谈，所有的乔迁也不过是从一张蓝色的床搬到另一张棕色的铺上。

We follow it into the Year Books, and perhaps beyond them to the customs of the Salian Franks, and somewhere in the past, in the German forests, in the needs of Norman kings, in the assumptions of a dominant class, in the absence of generalized ideas, we find out the practical motive for what now best is justified by the mere fact of its acceptance and that men are accustomed to it.

我们跟随它进入了编年史，并也许超越它们而来到撒利·法兰克人的习俗，在过去的某个地方——它可以是在日尔曼的丛林里，或诺曼国王们的需求，或统治阶级的假定，我们在没有普遍观念的指引下去发现［规则的］现实动机，而它的存在理由至多不过是它被接受且已被人们所习惯的事实。

The rest is as irrelevant as a wind blowing over a shoreless ocean.

那才是唯一的最最重要的。其它一切，不过是过眼烟云。

ON THE face of it, John Reader'snew biography of the potato seems to have a silly title—"propitiousesculent" is just a fancy way to say "helpful food"—and an even silliersubtitle.

约翰。里德尔最近为马铃薯立了一部传。印在传记封面上的书名——不过是别出心裁的把&有益食物&说成是&吉祥食物&罢了——看似愚蠢，而书的副题则更加可笑。

At one conference, I offered a slot in a power strip I had managed to purloin to a fellow journalist, only for him to turn it down, snootily proclaiming he was using a Mac and therefore didn't need power (personally, I don't agree with his view that Macs have longer-lasting batteries; I suspect he just had a newer battery than mine).

在一次会议上，我曾好心让一位记者同行使用我的接线板，但人家却不领情，还煞有介事地说他用的是 Mac 电脑，不需要外接电源。（要我说，他所谓 Macs 电脑的电池待机时间长之说不能成立；我怀疑他笔记本电脑的电池不过是比我的要新些罢了。

Schmitt argues that this movement represents a secularization, subjectification, and privatization in which God is replaced by the emancipated, private individual of the bourgeois social order.

Carl Schmitt，Political Romanticism，The MIT Press，1986，p99】施密特非常清楚，浪漫主义不过是近代世俗化进程和私人化构成的反映，&从心理学和历史上来讲，浪漫主义是资产阶级安全感的产物。&

The little rabbit swayed gently and began to move his ears in the direction of the music.

东西方婚庆的文化，不管是红的还是白的，不过是一种多元的选择。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。