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Indeed, if there was a defining moment in Friday's debate, it was the declaration by Representative Paul Broun of Georgia that climate change is nothing but a "hoax" that has been "perpetrated out of the scientific community."

实际上，如果周五的辩论中有决定性的时刻的话，那就是乔治亚州的代表保罗。布朗发表声明的时刻。他宣称气候变化不过是来自科学界的一个"骗局"。

In a bucket shop where your margin is a shoestring you don't play for long pulls. You are wiped too easily and quickly.

在对赌行里，你的保证金不过是个小零头，你不可能做长线，你会很快而且非常容易就被洗掉了。

White dog: This is just a budded super-size potato ; what do you bring me here for?

白狗：「不过是个发了芽的超大马铃薯罢了，你带我来到底要看什麽？

Indeed the word masculine is only a bugbear: there is little reason to fear that women will acquire too much courage or fortitude; for their apparent inferiority with respect to bodily strength, must render them, in some degree, dependent on men in the various relations of life, but why should it be increased by prejudices that give a sex to virtue, and confound simple truths with sensual reveries?

其实，所谓"男子气"不过是个故意吓唬人的玩意儿：没什么理由可以害怕女人会获得太多的勇气和毅力；因为她们在体力方面明显地处于劣势，在某种程度上，她们在生活的许多方面都要依赖男人。但为什么要将美德标以性别，将朴素的真理与快感的幻想混为一谈，用这种偏见来增加女性的劣势呢？

He is, indeed, no more than a shadow cast by somebody else or a machine capable ofdoing business.

他不过是别人的一个影子和事务的一台机器罢了。

In her view, war is simply a legalized form of butchery.

在她看来，战争不过是合法的屠杀形式。

Michael was, as always, very humble and kept smiling while Biggie just went on and on how much he loved Michael. I watched Biggie just become this big butterball of a man, and it was really very sweet to witness. After all, we are all just people.

我看着Biggie变成了这样一个普通的圆胖的汉子，能见证这样的时刻实在很温馨，毕竟，谁说到底都不过是一个普普通通的人罢了。

The other said it showed how miserly the old buzzard was-getting other people to do what he could have done a thousand times over without feeling it a mite.

另一方则坚持这恰恰证明了这个自私的老家伙有多么吝啬--这种事情他一个人做再多遍也不过是九牛一毛，他却要让全镇都参与进来。

Well known to his everything, but he just a bystander.

对他的一切如数家珍，到头来不过是一个旁观者。

All I've ever wanted was to have loved you, Caesar, father!

我所想的不过是爱你，恺撒，父亲！

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。