不过是

Simply a state in which the individual happens transiently to be perfectly adapted to his environment.

称为健康的东西是什么？不过是一种状态，处于这种状态的人刚好一时对环境完全适应。

It was a transportation route. Investment was directed to keeping it open for cargo.

杭州重建发展办公室的朱表示："它曾是一条交通要道，投资不过是要直接使它开放来运输货物。"

This is only a visualized trope. If all time is at your disposal, no 'time scraps' will come up.

这不过是一个形象的比喻，如果全部时间都是自己的，那就根本不存在"边角废料"问题。

I doubt that ill be off for 6 weeks but it could turn out like that...

我应该是不需要休息六个星期，不过是有可能要。。。

And, as before, the Kurds, whose autonomy is one of the few unalloyed successes of America's invasion, are likely to be kingmakers.

但是，就就像从前一样，库尔德人，他的自治权是唯一一个被入侵伊拉克的美国所认同的，但是最终也不过是拥立了一代国王而已。

Facebook is website of a community nevertheless just, although be in high fever period now, all over the world especially unboiled water of English area wind rises, but, also do not have the profit pattern with too effective what at present.

Facebook不过是一个社区网站而已，虽然现在正处于高烧期，在全世界尤其是英语地区风生水起，可是，现在也没有什么太有效的赢利模式。

I take it simply as an unconventional way to show my admiration for the beauty of life.

我想嫉妒是我的天性，无须抵赖，那不过是我对一切美好事物的另一种向往方式而已。

Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter rolls on its relentless way; for Man, condemned to-day to lose his dearest, to-morrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his little day; disdaining the coward terrors of the slave of Fate, to worship at the shrine that his own hands have built; undismayed by the empire of chance, to preserve a mind free from the wanton tyranny that rules his outward life; proudly defiant of the irresistible forces that tolerate, for a moment, his knowledge and his condemnation, to sustain alone, a weary but unyielding Atlas, the world that his own ideals have fashioned despite the trampling march of unconscious power.

人的生命是短暂而脆弱的，不可避免的死亡虽然缓慢，但一定会降临在每一个人身上，阴森而无情，这个全能的物质世界毫不容情地滚滚前行无视善恶，任意摧毁，对与人来说，注定今天要失去最亲爱的亲人朋友，明天自己也要通过黑暗的死亡之门，人的生命存在就在于死亡来袭之前，珍惜那些使他短暂的生命变得高贵的思想，鄙弃对命运的恐惧，对自建的圣坛顶礼膜拜，不受机缘的摆布，摆脱主宰他外部生活的粗暴统治而取得心灵的自由，敢于骄傲地向那些不可抗拒的压力挑战----这些压力对其认识和判断力不过是暂时的----他就像疲惫而不屈的擎天巨神，独自支撑着他自己的理想世界，对这种无意识力量的肆意践踏毫不理会。

For them, economic production is a means to the unfolding of man, not an end.

在他们看来，经济活动不过是展示自己的手段，而不是目的。

Orthodox Christianity was rejected, therefore, as merely one stage in man's continuing quest for understanding. Even Unitarianism (the denial of the deity of Jesus) was not radical enough; all the doctrines of historic Christianity had to be re-examined.

因此，正统基督教被视为不过是「人类对智力之持续探索的一个阶段」而被拒绝了，即使是唯一神教派也不够澈底；所有有关历史的基督教教义都必须被重新检视。

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。