不过是...

To be clear, bonuses are easy political cannon fodder but only up to a point.

说的明白些，奖金不过是现成的政治挡箭牌--但仅在一定程度上如此。

Canute is famed for trying to control the tide but in fact he was doing the opposite, showing his people that a king was only a man and that only God had the power to control nature.

克努特以试图制止海水倒灌闻名，因为结果适得其反，充分对人民显示了一国之君也不过是个凡人，只有上帝才能驾驭自然。

All that will not bear to be tested is mere carnal confidence.

一切不能忍受试验的，都不过是肉体的信心。

But I think he's just dangling a carrot in front of

但我想他这不过是开了一张空头支票。

But I think hes just dangling a carrot in front of me.

但我想他这不过是开了一张空头支票。

This so-called Tibet Major is merely a conspiracy hatched by imperialists in an attempt to carve up China.

所谓大西藏不过是帝国主义企图瓜分中国而策划的阴谋。

And what is the sun to them but a caster of shadows?

太阳对于他们来说，不过是影子后面的发光体

But now., I'm a celebrity cable castoff cat...

可是现在我不过是只著名过气猫罢了。。。

It was as casual a thing to her.

这对于她不过是一件平淡无奇的事。

Humanity has always had a strange avidity for unusual sexual postures, and if a man likes to use his wife, as Benvenuto Cellini says, 'in the Italian way', well that is a matter of taste. But I had hardly expected our game-keeper to be up to so many tricks. No doubt Bertha Coutts herself first put him up to them.

人类一向就是婪无厌地探究着性交的特殊姿式的，假如一位丈无喜欢和他的女人"意大利式"地一如赛凌尼的说法一尽情尽意，又有什么不可呢，那不过是嗜好的问题罢了。

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。