而已

The crowd in Robinson´s Coffee-House was thinning, but only by degrees.

鲁宾逊咖啡屋里的人正在变少，但也只是渐少而已。

Locking up men does nothing more than keep them off the streets.

把这些人关起来只是做到了不让他们上街而已。

He can´t help thinking it´s all just "pie in the sky" talk.

他禁不住想所有这些不过是“画饼充饥”的空话而已。

"I´ll be all right," he said airily. "It was only a thought."

“我会没事的，”他漫不经心地说，“那只是想想而已。”

Browning´s prediction is no better than a wild guess.

勃朗宁的预测不过是妄加猜测而已。