不过是...

I simply didn't wish to put you to the trouble of changing a large note.

我不过是不想难为你们去换开一张大票子罢了。

You yourself said it's only a routine check.

你自己说过这不过是一次例行检查。

They may yet turn up some chicanery.

他们也许不过是一些强词夺理。

But the idea that this can be prevented by judicious regulation of investment banking activities is a chimaera .

以为对投资银行业活动的明智监管能够防患于未然，不过是痴人说梦。

It has generated understandable anger (a new MP, says a Chippenham resident, will be "just someone else to put their hand in the till"), but also intense scrutiny of local incumbents and candidates.

这桩丑闻不但引发了可以理解的怒火（切本哈姆镇一名居民说，新的议员"不过是另一个监守自盗的家伙罢了"），而且引起了对地方在任者和候选人的细察。

It is just that he has the chutzpah to acknowledge what is obvious.

吉登斯不过是敢于把这么明白的东西宣之于口而已。

The world's great, I was a little dust, floating in the clear air.

世界之大，我不过是一粒小小的尘埃，漂浮於清澈的空气中。

In fact, the Mercedes-Benz E-class sedan is running Mami Benz CLK, but the appearance of E-class易容become like family.

事实上，奔驰E级轿跑的真身就是奔驰CLK，不过是外观易容成了E级家族的样子。

But Tim du Plessis, the editor of an Afrikaans newspaper, argues that Afrikaners are merely migrating to a new space, between dead-end radicalism and ANC co-option.

但一份南非荷兰语报纸的编辑Tim du Plessis认为，荷裔南非人不过是迁移到了一个新空间，介于坚持末路的激进主义与认同非国大对其吸收。

And the inhabitant of this coastland will say in that day, Such is now our expectation, to whom we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria!

20：6 当那日，这沿海一带的居民必说，我们素所仰望的，就是我们为脱离亚述王逃往求助的，不过是如此！

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。