In other words, throwbacks are possible, but only to the relatively recent evolutionary past.

换句话说，倒退是可能的，但只可能发生在相对较近的进化史上。

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She made no reference to her illness but only to her future plans.

她没有提到她的病，只说了她未来的计划。

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Smoking cannot lower the pressure but only to do harm both to own health and to that of people around you.

吸烟不能减轻压力，反而只会损害自己和周围人的健康。

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But somehow I couldn't seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind."

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PROFESSOR BAWENDI: The only But it's hard to imagine an irreversible compression the way we can just imagine an irreversible expansion.

,但是我们很难,像描述不可逆膨胀一样,来描述不可逆压缩。

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Con Markievicz was the only surviving leader of the Easter Rising, condemned to death, but then her sentence was transmuted.

马克维其是复活节起义唯一,幸存的领袖，被判了死刑，但后来判决又改变了。

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The Dutchman's header was parried by Sorensen but only to Johnson who improvised instinctively.

BBC: Liverpool 4-0 Stoke

It paid up to five shillings a week to the over-70s, but only to the poor.

BBC: NEWS | Programmes | Working Lunch | Pensions: Past, present and future

The proportion will be increased, but only to 30% this year and 40% from 2014.

ECONOMIST: Banyan