这些方案只不过是让会计师继续忙碌而已。
他说了些谎话,有时候只不过是渲染了一下事实。
我在对它进行删节—只不过是稍微改动一两个词,以免听众感到不悦。
I'm bowdlerizing it – just slightly changing one or two words so listeners won't be upset.
他的最新影片只不过是老一套—异国的场景、追车场面,以及最后的一场枪战。
His latest movie is just more of the same —exotic locations, car chases and a final shoot-out.
别孩子气了嘛,这只不过是开玩笑罢了。
实际上,钟并不存在;这只不过是人们脑子里的一种幻想罢了!
In reality the bell does not exist; it is only a fancy that people have taken into their heads!
醒来时,他仍然看到金色的圆钉;过了一会儿,他发现那只不过是些花。
On awaking, he had still seen the golden nails; but soon he discovered that they were nothing but flowers.
横在你们之间的车道或栅栏并不真的就是一道冷漠的屏障;它们只不过是一条清晰的分界线。
The driveway or the fence between you is not really a cold shoulder but a clear boundary.
他现在只不过是一颗火热的心,被一团发光的云所包围,他像一个巨大的钟摆一样,在不可思议的摆动的弧线上摇摆。
Encompassed in a luminous cloud, of which he was now merely the fiery heart, he swung through unthinkable arcs of oscillation, like a vast pendulum.
他们的友善态度只不过是装出来的。
那不是爱情,只不过是一时的痴迷。
他不是真有此意,只不过是存心挑逗一下罢了。
He doesn't really mean that—he's just being deliberately provocative.
“别墅”一说有点不妥,那地方只不过是座旧农舍。
'Villa' was something of a misnomer ; the place was no more than an old farmhouse.
简妮的律师们说,他的诉讼只不过是敲诈勒索而已。
这笔交易只不过是对自然景观持续破坏行为的遮掩而已。
This deal is little more than a fig leaf for the continued destruction of the landscape.
我们坚持说它只不过是一扇窗户,这阻止了他们无数次要求打开这扇门的尝试。
Our insisting it's merely a window has kept them from attempting millions of requests to open the door.
时尚的变化只不过是故意制造的浪费。
Changing fashions are nothing more than the intentional creation of waste.
新的博客可能只不过是一个聪明的公关噱头。
The new blog may turn out to be no more than a clever public-relations stunt.
它只不过是个过眼云烟的噱头或露天市场上的景点。
It was no more than a passing gimmick or a fairground attraction.
换言之,如果没有令人惊讶之处,它只不过是个哈欠。
In other words, if there are no surprises, it's just a yawn.
难怪谴责许多大学只不过是精心设计的骗局已经成为一种潮流。
No wonder it has become fashionable to denounce many universities as little more than elaborate con tricks.
说实话,我不是什么殿下,只不过是城里杂院可怜的汤姆·康第罢了。
In sooth I am no lord, but only poor Tom Canty of Offal Court in the city.
美丽的少女挽救了他的性命只不过是他编造出来的美丽童话,全都是骗人的。
The beautiful maiden who saved his life is just a beautiful fairy tale made up by him, all deceiving.
“乔伊也是这么说的,”帕蒂告诉大家:“他说那只不过是个词而已,而且还算不得什么坏词。”
"That's what Joey said, " Patty told them, "He said it was just a word and not even a bad word."
即使是那些认为旅行只不过是一场派对或庆祝活动的父母,也会因为孩子被留在家里而感到内疚。
Even parents who can see that a trip is little more than a party or celebration may well feel guilt that their child is left behind.
自从美索不达米亚和埃及时代以来,玻璃就已经被制造出来了,它只不过是沙子、苏打灰和石灰的混合物。
Glass, which has been made since the time of the Mesopotamians and Egyptians, is little more than a mixture of sand, soda ash and lime.
"在我们的环境知识方面仍然有巨大的缺口,而且尽管有科学的助攻,但很多预测也只不过是最好的猜测而已。
There are still huge gaps in our environmental knowledge, and despite the scientific onslaught, many predictions are no more than best guesses.
诚然,每一幢大房子都是真正的封建堡垒,只不过是用日晒过的黏土建造的,但上面有城垛、炮塔、炮眼、吊桥等等。
Every large house is a real feudal fortress made, it is true, only of sun-baked clay, but with battlements, turrets, loopholes, drawbridges, etc.
我一只脚滑了一跤,另一只脚也因而站不稳了。但晃过神来时,我就告诫自己:这只不过是滑了一跤,并不是摔倒爬不起来了。
My foot slipped from under me, knocking the other out of the way, but I recovered and said to myself that it's a slip and not a fall.
这个协定如不执行只不过是一纸空文。
This agreement, if not implemented, is a mere scrap of paper.
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