不过是

I think he's just fishing for compliments.

我想他不过是在沽名钓誉。

The energy concentration is only one of its problems.

能源集中化不过是其的众多问题之一。

If gentilesse refers to politeness and courtesies universally applied, women would embrace it unreservedly, if gentilesse is meant to bring women to subdue to a biased men-only-dominates paradigm world and all rights conferred upon women are products men condescendingly grant women, then man are playing God and world's to be regressed to King's dynasty.

当然这其中也存在着异数：比如日本女人的和服，作为一例：不过是男人规定的女人应该怎样性诱惑男人的方式罢了。

For some ten years, the tendency to photo-based painting bad continued. However, most of the artworks were nothing but a conflation of amusement and inertia, stagnating the development of contemporary art.

此后十几年，中国当代艺术也出现了用照片等影像资源来创作的趋势，但是多数作品不过是一种艺术趣味和惰性结合的产物，对当代艺术的发展没什么推动。

Conflux of the four seas is no more than a small puddle on swamp.

四海加起来也不过是沼泽中的一个小洞穴罢了。

Conflux of the four seas is no more than a small puddle on the swamp.

四海加起来也不过是沼泽中的一个小洞穴罢了。

You know that a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all.

你知道魔术家一旦把自己的戏法说穿，他就得不到别人的赞赏了；如果把我的工作方法给你讲得太多的话，那么，你就会得出这样的结论：福尔摩斯这个人不过是一个十分平常的人物罢了。

You know that a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual a fter all.

你知道魔术家一旦把自己的戏法说穿，他就得不到别人的赞赏了；如果把我的工作方法给你讲得太多的话，那么，你就会得出这样的结论：福尔摩斯这个人不过是一个十分平常的人物罢了。

It was just, as he saw it, a nod in their direction, in a coolly realistic way.

正如他说看到的一样，这不过是按照他们的要求点头而已，这种方式冷静而现实。

The TV debate was a cop-out : it didn't tackle any of the real issues.

电视辩论不过是虚晃一枪，并未解决任何实际问题。

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。