不过是...

I don't like your boyfriend. I think he's a John in disguise.

我不喜欢你的男朋友，他不过是另一个约翰罢了。

If we fail to help them, dishonour will be the price we pay.

如果我们不帮助他们，不过是失去名誉而已。

This is at best disingenuous and does not justify a failure to inform and consult people.

这充其量不过是种言不由衷的辩解，不能成为未提醒用户和未征询用户意见的理由。

Scholem, on the other hand, kept up a stream of reproaches in his letters from Palestine, thinking it nothing more than a fashionable disguise:"There is a disconcerting alienation and disjuncture between your true and alleged way of thinking."

另一方面，肖勒姆从巴勒斯坦的来信提出了一连串的批评。他认为这不过是个时髦的伪装："在你真实的，和你所宣称的思想方法之间，有着令人不安的疏远和分离。"

The boss threatened him with dismissal,but it's only a threat.

老板威胁说要解雇他，但这不过是恐吓而已。。

The boss threatened with dismissal he,but it's all bluff.

老板威胁说要解雇他，但这不过是恐吓而已。

"Before you ask," said Howl, it's really just a disused stable.

不用问了，」霍尔说：「不过是一间废弃不用的马厩罢了。

He gets degrees in making jam/at Liverpool and Birmingham, went one popular ditty.

他获得了做果酱的学位/不过是在利物浦和伯明翰这种讽刺小调说明一切）。

Okay, I was ready to diversify.

好吧，我不过是给你开开眼界

All I did was direct you to where you could do some good.

我所做的不过是指引你去做对人们有益的事情。

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。