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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.
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.
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.
他只不过是照背讲义而已. He's simply regurgitating stuff remembered from lectures.
假装昏迷只不过是个诡计. Pretending to faint was merely (an) artifice.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.