不过是

It followes that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism , like preferring candles to electric ? light or hansom cabs to aeroplanes .

由此任何反对语言滥用的斗争都不过是伤感的怀旧情绪罢了，就如同宁可点蜡而不用电灯，宁可坐马车而不愿乘飞机一般。

It was but the natural consequence of a strong affection in a young and ardent mind.

这不过是一颗年轻火热的心灵中强烈的爱慕之情非常自然的表现。

All that is needed is the loan to Mistral's museum of a Van Gogh painting, created while he was in Arles.

所需不过是向阿尔博物馆出借一幅梵高在阿尔时期的绘画。

The rods that thinly stripe our landscape, long shafts from the clouds, if we had but agility to make the arrowy downward journey with them by the glancing of our eyes, would be infinitely separate, units, an innumerable flight of single things, and the simple movement of intricate points.

雨如千万根针，薄纱般笼罩在天地间；雨似无数飞梭，洒落自天际云端。其实，假如我们的视觉足够机敏，可以追逐到箭一般射下的雨的全过程，那么，这密密的雨丝，不过是许许多多的小雨点洋洋洒洒地飞舞，无穷无尽，密密匝匝而又互不相干。如此简单的运动而已。

Some people always think everybody follows him same, stretch his hand everywhere want money, want share. 4, someone once personally tells me before a lot of people, build Internet harmony society, look today, still making up all sorts of rumors, include naked to my individual assault and battery, looking is to deceive people nevertheless.

有的人总以为所有人都跟他一样，到处伸手要钱，要股份。4、某人曾经亲口当着很多人告诉我，建设互联网和谐社会，今天看来，还在编造各种谣言，包括对我个人赤裸裸的人身攻击，看来不过是骗人。

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind.Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

16人们赞美的和所谓的生活，不过是生活中的一种形式而已，为什么我们要赞许这一种而贬低另一种生活呢？

I didn't want him to know that I was moonlighting at night.

我不过是不想让他知道我晚上有另外的工作。

In fact, it was just a small attic.

事实上，那不过是一个小小的阁楼而已。

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.

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。

Learning foreign languages is just an avocation with me .

学习外语中不过是我的一项业余爱好。

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。