We were only able to make a rough estimate of how much fuel would be required.

我们只能对所需燃料的量作一个粗略估计。

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If only I could get some sleep, I would be able to cope.

要是我能睡一会儿，就可以应付。

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We'll never be able to stop beach erosion, we can only stave it off.

我们永远都不能阻止海滩被侵蚀，我们只能暂缓其发生。

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He believed if he could only enter this kind of a hotel, he would be able to leave school, his teachers,and his ordinary, gray life behind him.forever.

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The only fingers with which he'll be able to hold his pen and write this poem are his forced fingers rude.

他能用来执笔写诗的手指,是他粗鲁的手指。

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I will only do them on one condition, and that is I want to be able to teach you what the assumptions are that underlie the points in the derivation.

只在一个情况下我才会做，那就是要能够教会你们,假设是,构成了推导的基础。

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And so there's hope among conservatives and among Republicans that they'll be able to find a new standard bearer who'd be able to speak not only to conservative voters but also to the public at large.

NPR: Conservatively Speaking, Things Look Bad

"I felt some of the evidence given lent him to only be able to give that verdict, " she said.

BBC: Gladys Richards

"As downloads will be synced to the hotel's account, guests will only be able to read the downloaded book during their stay, " an InterContinental representative said.

CNN: Hotel replaces printed Bibles with Kindles