To many, the costs may not even appear to be financial at all, but merely aesthetic—a terrible shame, but nothing to do with money.

对许多人来说，这些损失可能根本不是财务上的问题，而仅仅是审美上的问题——这是一种可怕的耻辱，但与金钱无关。

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In actuality, Ted did not have a disorder but merely a difficult temperament.

事实上，特德并没有什么异常而只是脾气不好。

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It is not a difference of principle, but merely a difference of degree.

这不是原则不同，只是程度不同而已。

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It's merely limiting the number of gods worshipped to one, but it houses that God in a temple. It offers him sacrifices and so on.

这仅仅是把崇拜的神的数量缩减为一个，并且把这唯一的上帝供奉在寺庙里，对他进行供奉。

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But since we've got free will, we must be something more than a merely physical object.

但由于我们拥有自由意志,我们必定不只是纯粹的物理对象

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It is not a political treatise, as those who merely judge books by their title think, but it is the finest, " most beautiful work on education ever written."

这不是一本政治论述，不像众人浅薄地,从其书名所下的判断，而是一本最优，有史以来最典雅的教育著作“

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Failure is not a permanent state, but merely a temporary challenge that had to be tackled creatively.

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No, the "Orange Marilyn" is neither a leading nor a lagging indicator, but merely a coincident indicator of our corporate world's prosperity.

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Sollecito's attorney, Giulia Bongiorno, noted that Tuesday's ruling was not a determination of guilt but merely a need for further study of the appeals court ruling.

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