充其量

The sportive sunlight- feebly sportive, at best, in the predominant pensiveness of the day and scene- withdrew itself as they came nigh, and left the spots where it had danced the drearier, because they had hoped to find them bright.

阳光——充其量不过是微弱的闪跃——在她们走近时就退缩了，她们原本希望阳光闪跃过的地方会明亮些，但走到跟前倒显得益发阴暗了。

The sportive sunlight -- feebly sportive, at best, in the predominant pensiveness of the day and scene -- withdrew itself as they came nigh, and left the spots where it had danced the drearier, because they had hoped to find them bright.

在天气和景色的一片阴霾中，那嬉戏的阳光——充其量不过是微弱的闪跃——在她们走近时就退缩了，她们原本希望阳光闪跃过的地方会明亮些，但走到跟前倒显得益发阴暗了。

To the latter, the pliability and indistinct quality of the ink medium makes it very difficult for the art form to survive in the present environment of Chinese contemporary art; at best it can only develop towards abstraction.

在后一类人看来，水墨画材料的柔软性、飘浮性使它在中国当代艺术的格局中很难有着生存的空间，它充其量也只能往抽象水墨的方向发展。

Thus , Quinton's account is not true of punishing but at best of sentencing .

那么，奎顿的看法——惩罚充其量就是宣判——是错的。

Where they were not alive with rottenness, they were like well-preserved mummies.

虽然他们尚未腐朽透顶，但充其量不过是行尸走肉罢了。

Rather than saddling future taxpayers with debt for what will be at best a slight temporary relief, better to boost the economy by cutting taxes and reforming inefficient regulatory structures.

而非让纳税人在未来背负债务，充其量只是轻微的临时救济方案，应更好地利用减税和改革低效的政府制度方式来推动经济。

It was full of sap, full of leaves, and full of boughs6; but now in vain does the busy art of man7 pretend to vie8 with nature, by tying that withered bundle of twigs9 to its sapless trunk; it is now at best but the reverse of what it was, a tree turned upside-down, the branches on the earth, and the root in the air; it is now handled by every dirty wench10, condemned to do her drudgery11, and, by a capricious12 kind of fate, destined to make other things clean, and be nasty itself ; at length13, worn to the stumps in the service of the maids, it is either thrown out of doors or condemned to the last use—of kindling14 a fire.

它曾生气勃勃，枝繁叶茂，但如今爱管闲事的人却动手把枯枝捆扎于它那枯桩上，装模作样地同自然徒然抗争。如今它充其量只是以前模样的倒转——一棵本末倒置的树，枝条伏地，根部朝天，听由脏兮兮的女佣随手使唤，并且被无常的命运捉弄，注定要去清扫他物，把自己搞得污秽不堪。最后，被女佣用成一根光杆儿，要么被扔出门外，要么最后充当引火的木柴。

She is at best a second-rate singer.

她充其量是一个二流歌手。

At best,positive expectations of retirement seem at best to fulfill a secondary or supportive role.

充其量，人们对退休的积极期待似乎只能实现次要或者辅助的作用。

Modernisation is at best a cover-up for preserving the status quo, and at worst a way of siphoning off more public money.

现代化充其量不过是维持现状的挡箭牌，最糟糕的是现代化将吸干更多公共资金。

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。