Mr Marks admits that the legal campaign has not done much to reduce file-sharing, but how much worse might things be, he wonders, if the industry had done nothing?

Marks先生承认，司法手段(司法运动此处意译)在减少资源共享方面作用有限，可是他清楚，如果行业放任不管，情况会有多严重。

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Sure, iPad does so much more, but the user not only pays about twice as much for the device but $15 or $30 month, instead of nothing.

我承认iPad能做的事情确实比上述两者多，不过考虑到iPad的价格是它们的两倍，而且还要每个月多付$15或$30，只为了多出来的这点事情貌似有些不划算。

youdao

I think that it's fair to say that everyone agrees on that, and that's not nothing but that's pretty much where the agreement ends.

大家都非常赞同这些明喻并不是无关紧要的，反而很大程度上终结了所有的争论。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It is not so much that nothing was achieved - it is more that no one is quite certain what will sustain.

BBC: Europe after the euphoria

There've been warnings - as I heard a few weeks ago from a man who made the whole room sit up - that until we as patients are persuaded to see crumbling hospitals as liabilities and not assets, nothing much will change.

BBC: In the red, in the firing line

Again, nothing much not to like.

BBC: Rio revisited: Glass half-full?