I asked her what her name was but she made no reply.

我问她叫什么名字，但她没有回答。

《牛津词典》

The man has said his deed was but lamely proved.

这个人刚才说他的行为不足以做证明。

youdao

Thou wast under oath, and so swore falsely when thou saidst the value was but eightpence.

你是发过誓的，所以当你说那值八便士的时候，你就起了假誓。

youdao

Hamilton was never president. But he was the first Secretary of the Treasury and one of the Founding Fathers.

VOA: special.2010.11.12

And his father was a democrat but not a Bolshevik; so, he was anti-czarist, but he was not a Bolshevik.

他的父亲是民主党人而非布尔什维克党人;,他反对沙皇，但他并不是布尔什维克党人。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I enjoyed it. It was nice, but I could not speak eloquently about the pieces like everyone else.

我很喜欢现代艺术，挺好的。但是我不能像其他人那样流利地说出艺术品的所以然来。

喜欢毕加索吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

To her, there was but one real Steve Jobs, and he happened to be imaginary.

FORBES: Steve Jobs, Imaginary Friend

From shrinking the aircraft, it was but a small step to shrinking the airline.

ECONOMIST: British Airways

The treaty signed on April 2nd was but a shadow of the ambitious draft.

ECONOMIST: Slavic symbolism