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想过舒适的生活不过是普通人的本性。 It's only human nature to want a comfortable life.
起初我不同意他的提议，不过后来我改了主意。 Initially, I disagree with his proposal, but later I changed my mind.
这不过是个笑话而已。 It is nothing but a joke.
这不过是许多例子中的一个。 This is only one instance out of many.
别拿她的话当真--她不过是逗弄人. Don't take what she said seriously she was only teasing.
画报的封面上印上美女不过是吸引顾客的一种生意眼。 The pretty girl on the cover of the pictorial is just a sales gimmick.
你如果考虑到她学英语才不过六个月，那么她英语讲得的确不错了。 If you consider that she has only been studying English for six months, she speaks it very well.
我肚子上挨了一拳一时完全喘不过气来. The punch in the stomach completely winded me.
她干起活来倒是相当不错, 不过有时需要加以督促. She is a fairly good worker, but she needs prodding occasionally.
有些职员要被解雇，不过请放心，你不在此列。 Some of our staff are to be dismissed, but I hasten to add you won't be among them.
爱护主义，对大部分人来说，只不过是害怕不公正所苦罢了。 The love of justice be, in most men, nothing more than the fear of suffering injustice.
那时，这老头儿只不过是个泥瓦工罢了。他之所以发迹，我认为靠的是精明的而不是业绩。 In his time, the old gentleman was a working mason, and had risen form the ranks more, I think, by shrewdness than by merit.
那些初期的反叛活动只不过是大规模革命行动的演习。 The earlier revolts had just been dress rehearsals for full-scale revolution.
不一会儿，她把话题岔开了，不过全凭她施展出深通人情世故的女人的全部本事。 Presently, thought with all the skill of a woman of the world, she shuffled away the subject.
这种所谓的大减价不过是个骗局! This so-called bargain is just a con!
那个总理只不过是该国总统的马前卒. The prime minister was a mere tool in the hands of the country's president.
我不相信他真会按他威胁的话去做, 他不过吓唬（我们）罢了. I don't believe he'd really do what he threatens he's only bluffing (us).
"杰克，你和我们一起来吗？""不。不过，管它呢，反正我一到家就会遇到麻烦。" "Are you coming on with us, Jack? ""I shouldn't, but what the hell. I'm going to get into trouble when I get home, anyway."
这里不过是打一个比方。 Here we speak only by way of analogy.
他的回答只不过是把我的讲义重复了一遍。 His answer is just a rehash version of my lecture.
他的失败是再明白不过了。 His failure is as plain as plain can be.
他只不过是照背讲义而已. He's simply regurgitating stuff remembered from lectures.
你不关心妻子儿女是说不过去的. You can't justify neglecting your wife and children.
火车上挤得我都喘不过气来。 There was such a crush on the train that I could hardly breathe.
他似乎是个万事通。其实他是再愚蠢不过了。 It seems as if he knew everything, but in reality, he is as stupid as can be.
我妻子想起居室里换块新地毯，不过我们再过6个月就要搬走，那只是白白浪费钱财。 My wife wanted a new carpet in the living room, but as we are moving in six months it would only be money down the drain.
假装昏迷只不过是个诡计. Pretending to faint was merely (an) artifice.
我喜欢乳酪果酱，不过这是后天养成的一种嗜好。 I like jam with cheese, but it's an acquired taste.
＂老板威胁说要解雇所有同情罢工的员工，但是这不过是恐吓而已。＂ "The boss threatened to dismiss all the employees who had expressed their sympathy for the strike, but it's all bluff."
别取笑青年人的装模作样；他们只不过是为了找寻自我而逐一试装出各种面孔罢了。 Do not laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
我需要的不过是一件样品而已。 What I need is nothing but a sample.
他摆出一幅笑脸，不过这似乎让他使尽了全身的气力。 He summoned up a smile, though it seemed to take all his strength.
他只不过是名义上的经理，而实际上是他的助手掌管这里的一切。 He's manager in name only, it's his assistant who really runs the place.
这个学院只不过是个文凭制造厂 The college was nothing more than a diploma mill.
那不是深宅大院, 只不过是个小农舍. It's not a very grand house, just a little cottage.
不过现在它们已经被改建，用作库房或粮仓了。 But now they have been adapted for use as storehouses or granaries.
她干起活来倒是相当不错，不过有时需要加以督促。 She is a fairly good worker, but she needs prod occasionally.
它想他至多不过15岁。 I think he was fifteen at(the) most.
人生，再好也不过是汪洋苦海罢了。 Life is, at best, a sea of trouble.
那不是稀有的鸟, 只不过是普通的麻雀. It isn't a rare bird, just a common or garden sparrow.
这不是原作，它只不过是廉价的复制品。 This is not the original; it's only a cheap reproduction.
他经常说他对文学有浓厚的兴趣，其实这不过是附庸风雅而已。 He is always talking about his deep interest in literature, but it's just a pose.
全是狂人，不过，凡是能够分析自己的妄想者就被称为哲学家。 All are lunatics, but he who can analyze he delusion is called a philosopher.
当飞机上的灯一下子熄灭时，旅客显得很紧张，但当机长告诉他们这只不过是一次电气故障，很快就会修好时，他们才放下心来。 The passengers became alarmed when the lights went out on the plane, but the captain put their minds at rest when he told them it was only a minor electrical fault and it would soon be repaired.
不要对他期望过高；他只不过是个学生。 Don't expect much of him; he is at best a student.
我叫丹尼·琼斯。不过我用教名的略称：丹。 I am Daniel Jones, but I go by my nickname, Dan.
她说什麽东西也没被偷, 那不过是掩饰罢了. She said nothing was stolen, but that's just a cover-up.
该珠宝公司不过是进行非法的钻石交易的幌子。 The jewellery firm is just a front for their illegal trade in diamonds.
从尿布到尊严、又从尊严到解体，只不过是短短的一段岁月而已。 It is but a few short years from diaper to dignity and from dignity to decomposition.
道格培里：老爷，弗吉斯先生讲起话来总是有点缠夹不清；他年纪大了，老爷，……可是说句良心话，他是个老实不过的人。 Dog-berry: Goodman Verges, sir, speaks a little off the matter: an old man, sir,…but, in faith, honest as the skin between his brows.
历史可以证明，德国人在1944年12月的反攻巴尔吉之战中使出了最后的力量，从那时起，他们的失败只不过是时间问题而已。 History may prove that in Dec.1944, the Germans shot their bolt at the Battle of the Bulge; after that, their defeat was just a matter of time.
人生是一种考验，而这个世界就是考场。每一代都要面对一些问题－－可能是相同的问题－－只不过问题的形式不同。 Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems- or it may be the same problem will be presented to every generation in different forms.
不过，任何解决[苏联经济失调]办的法都受到权力危机的影响，在改革与开放，经济与政治之间产生一种自相矛盾僵持不下的情况：任何振兴经济的办法不过煽起民众的忿怒并损及政府威信而已。 Any solution [to Soviet economic malaise], however, is hostage to the crisis of authority, creating a catch-22 stalemate between perestroika and glasnost, between economics and politics: any measure to shore up the economy only fans public anger and reduces the authority of the Government.