充其量

Meditations of evolution increasingly vaster: of the moon invisible in incipient lunation, approaching perigee: of the infinite lattiginous scintillating uncondensed milky way, discernible by daylight by an observer placed at the lower end of a cylindrical vertical shaft 5000 ft deep sunk from the surface towards the centre of the earth: of Sirius 10 lightyears (57,000,000,000,000 miles) distant and in volume 900 times the dimension of our planet: of Arcturus: of the precession of equinoxes: of Orion with belt and sextuple sun theta and nebula in which 100 of our solar systems could be contained: of moribund and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of our system plunging towards the constellation of Hercules: of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving wanderers from immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years, threescore and ten, of allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity.

347关于宇宙日益扩大进化的冥想：新月期的月亮，即使在近地点也看不见。从地表向地轴挖掘纵深五千英尺的圆筒状垂直轴，一个观察者呆在轴底儿上，就连白昼也辨认得出那漫无止境、网络状、亮光闪闪、非凝结性的银河。天狼距地球十光年（五七、000、000、000、000英里）；体积大于地球九百倍；大角；岁差运动；有着"猎户"腰带、六倍于太阳的"伐二"以及星云的猎户座，星云中能容纳我们的一百个太阳系；死去的和新生的星宿，例如一九0 一年的那颗"新星"我们的太阳系正朝着武仙座冲去；所谓恒星的视差或视差移动，也就是说，实际上恒星是在不断地从无限遥远的太古朝无限遥远的未来移动着。相形之下，人的寿命充其量才七十年，不过是无限短暂的一段插曲而已。

At its greatest, Japan's production of munitions was only about one-tenth that of the United States.

日本的军火生产充其量大约只有美国的十分之一。

At the moment, this route through the Canadian archipelago is navigable at best for a brief summer spell.

现在，穿越加拿大北极群岛的该航线充其量也只是在夏季一段很短的时间内适于航行。

This can be seen to be a nominalist attack on conceptual theory: there is no category 'law', 'law' is whatever we want it to be, so it is a strange exercise at best to wonder about the 'nature' or 'essential nature' of something we have constructed (and could construct a different way if we so choose).

这可能被看作是唯名论对于概念理论的攻击：并不存在"法律"的范畴，"法律"是我们想让它称为法律的任何东西，因此，想要知道某种我们建构的（并且只要我们想，就可以以另一种方式建构）东西的"性质"或"必要的性质"，这充其量是一种奇怪的实践。

The result is, at best, a distorted message and, at worst, the medicalisation of normality.

其结果是，充其量是一个被扭曲的信息，并在最坏的情况正常medicalisation。

There is the Oedipus Complex, at best, so easy to marry a wife more than Sister.

有恋母情结的，充其量容易娶个大姐做老婆而已。

At best, a very small open-faced sandwich.

充其量它只是个开口的小三明治。

The name is actually an oxymoron because it is impossible to walk on Walking Street.

步行街这个名字实际上是自相矛盾的，因为在步行街是不可能行走的，充其量你只可以在上面散步。

The rate cut is at best a temporary palliative. It will not revive the housing market.

降低利率充其量是一个暂时的缓和危机的方法，它不会重新活跃房地产市场。

Some critics see him as a writer of"penny dreadful"whose book do"little more for humanity than keep the publishing industry afloat", while others regard him as the"king of horror fiction"whose writing is securely rooted in the great American tradition and contains profound moral truths---some beautiful, some harrowing---about our inner lives, which open up a new trend of the modern horror fiction.

一些评论家认为他的作品廉价惊险小说，不登大雅之堂，充其量也就是刺激了出版业的繁荣；而另一些评论家则将其视为"恐怖小说之王"，认为他的作品继承了美国文学重情节和气氛的伟大传统，体现出人类灵魂深处种种美丽和悲惨的道德真相，为类型小说创作开辟了一个崭新的天地。

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。