I favor the former, if only because I want to sleep at night.

如果我仅仅因为我想晚上能睡个好觉，那么我会支持前者。

youdao

And then, today, I decided to reply to you if only because I did not want to leave you with the false impression that your perfidious letter is worth the paper on which it has been written.

今天我写信给你仅仅是因为我不能给你留下这样一个错误的印象，即你上一封背信弃义的信有任何的价值。

youdao

She always writes me once a month, if only to scold me because I haven't answered her last letter yet.

她总是一个月写一封信给我，即使仅仅是为了责备我还没有回她的上一封信。

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Because, as I said, you can only drive one car at a time and if you've got ten of them in the garage, then it doesn't really do you much good.

正如我说的,你只能一次开一辆车,但如果你的车库里有十辆,它实际上并不会给你带来更多的好处

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I mean, isn't it somewhat inefficient to load it really deep, because I assume if a spear is only six feet long, what are people in the back going to be doing?

我觉得,过于厚实的方阵会影响效率,据我所知,长矛也就六尺来长,那站在方阵后方的战士都在干什么呢

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You cannot answer that, even if I promised to move only along the x-axis, because I think...I don't want to pose this as a question, because I think the answer is fairly obvious to everybody.

即使我保证只在 x 轴上移动,你们仍然无法回答,因为我觉得...我不想将其作为一个问题,因为我认为答案是显而易见的

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On the topic of PowerPoint slides, Kawasaki has a technique that I think is very effective if only because I see it used so rarely and yet it is very personal and makes an immediate connection with an audience.

FORBES: Keys to an Enchanting Presentation

If so it's only because I haven't forgotten how good the first "Die Hard" was (and still is).

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If I were to return, I would ask for the least expensive second-floor room, only because I could hear the footsteps above mine.

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