不过是...

All this is fair enough, but it is only one part of the story.

所有这些都不错，可是这不过是事情的一面。

The recognition of fallibility is simply an acknowledgment of our humanity.

承认人皆有错不过是正视人性而已。

I'm just moving on in the family business.

我不过是在继续家族工作。

But to people with keen insight, it is nothing but a farce.

但是，在有识之士看来，这不过是一场闹剧。

I know it's the first week of the season, I know you think I'm fawning, and I don't care.

我知道这不过是新赛季的第一个星期，我知道你们可能认为我在奉承，我不在乎。

Iknow it's the first week of the season, I know you think I'm fawning,and I don't care.

我知道这不过是新赛季的第一个星期，我知道你们可能认为我在奉承，我不在乎。

And has little side effects, but is 1 / 1000 of the feminization of male births.

也没有太大副作用，不过是1/1000男胎女性化。

What advantage is it to be a man, over it is to be a boy at school, if we have only escaped the ferula to come under the fescue of an Imprimatur; if serious and elaborate writings, as if they were no more than the theme of a grammar-lad under his pedagogue, must not be uttered without the cursory eyes of a temporizing and extemporizing licenser?

如果我们从老师的教鞭底下逃出来又落到了出版许可制的刑棍底下，如果严肃而认真的写作不过是课堂上一个文法练习题，不经过草率从事的检查员胡乱检查一下就不能发表；那末作为一个成年人又比一个学童能好多少呢？

We decided to fire that worker, he was just a fifth wheel.

我们决定开除那个工人，他不过是个多余无用之人。

We decide to fire that worker, he is just a fifth wheel

我们决定开除那个工人，他不过是个多余无用之人

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。