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你只是说说而已。 You are just saying that.
学习英语口语不只是玩游戏而已。 Spoken English learning is not all beer and skittle.
这不过是个笑话而已。 It is nothing but a joke.
他只是表面诚实而已。 He is honest only on the surface.
他以为她爱上他，但只是梦想而已。 He thinks she is in love with him, but it's only a dream.
他仅仅是涉足政治而已。 He just dabbles in politics.
这骚乱仅仅是人们不满的一种表露而已。 This riot is only one manifestation of people's discontent.
他只不过是照背讲义而已. He's simply regurgitating stuff remembered from lectures.
我的依据只是谣传而已. I have only reports to go on.
＂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."
他只是假装而已。 He's only shamming.
我所能担保的仅此而已。 That's all I can engage for.
我需要的不过是一件样品而已。 What I need is nothing but a sample.
这只戒指只是镀金的而已。 The ring was only plated with gold.
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.
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.
好多智慧的冠冕，无非是一只“成功”的金尿壶，摆着堂皇的架势而已。 Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamber-pot of success, worn with pompous dignity.
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.
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.