I agreed, but only because I was frightened.
我同意了，但只是因为我受到了恐吓。
I called several times, but only got the answering machine.
我打了几次电话，但只有电话答录机答话。
The airline had not been searching unaccompanied baggage by hand, but only screening it on X-ray machines.
这家航空公司一直没有手工检查非随身行李，只是在X光机上检查。
All eyes were bright, but only I was blinded by his eyes.
所有的眼睛都是明亮的，但只有我被他的眼睛蒙蔽了。
Mother duck said quack quack quack. But only four little ducks came back.
鸭妈妈叫啊叫，但是只有四只小鸭子回来了。
In 2008, Cuba was hit by five successive hurricanes, but only seven people were killed.
2008年，古巴连续遭受了五次飓风袭击，但只有七人死亡。
For Plato, music is an important element in education, but only the right kind of music.
对柏拉图来说，音乐是教育的一个重要元素，但只有正确的音乐类型。
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。
It is a Swiss company, but only a small proportion of its production takes place in Switzerland.
它是一家瑞士的公司，但是它在瑞士只生产很少一部分产品。
They had no other option but to clean the tunnel but only the parts Alexandre had already cleaned.
他们别无选择，只能清理隧道，但只清理亚历山大已经“清理”过的部分隧道。
Many people travel to Loch Ness to look for this strange monster, but only a few people have seen it.
许多人到尼斯湖去寻找这个怪物，但只有少数人看到过它。
People living in moderate poverty have the resources to keep themselves alive, but only at a very basic level.
生活在中度贫困中的人们拥有维持生计的物资，但只是非常基本的生活物资。
Lots of people may need trousers, but only a few qualify as likely buyers of very expensive designer trousers.
很多人可能会买裤子，但只有少数人有资格成为非常昂贵的设计师裤子的潜在买家。
There have been female governors, secretaries of state and Supreme Court justices, but only one female speaker.
曾经有过女性州长、国务卿和最高法院大法官，但是女性众议院议长只有一位。
This twister stayed in the open country, away from people or buildings, rotating at 120 mph but only moving at 5 mph.
该龙卷风停留在开阔的乡野，远离人群和建筑，以每小时120英里的时速旋转，但仅以每小时5英里的时速移动。
Peretti says the Times shouldn't waste time getting out of the print business, but only if they go about doing it the right way.
佩雷蒂说，《纽约时报》不应该把时间浪费在终止印刷业务上，而应该采取正确的方式去解决这件事。
All beds have special L-shaped top sheets that reach up to armpit level on a woman but only waist level on the man lying beside her.
所有的床都有特殊的L 形被单，可以盖到女人的腋窝，但是只能盖到躺在她旁边的男人的腰。
But only those few spores that settle down in very favorable locations can start a new life; the vast majority fall on barren ground.
但只有那些降落在非常有利位置的孢子才能开始新的生活；绝大多数的孢子降落在贫瘠的土地上。
Your jaw muscles activate sympathetically when you see me initiate my reach for the glass, but only when I am reaching to have a drink.
当你看见我伸手去拿水杯时，你下颌的肌肉感应性地活跃起来，但只是在我为了喝水而伸手拿的时候。
They're up to a kilometer long, but only a few meters wide, and they're scattered along the desert floor, in valleys between the dunes.
我们所看到的石灰岩层高达一千米，而宽却只有几米，沿着沙漠底部和沙丘间的山谷分布。
Many cell phones allow users to surf the Web, but only some newer ones are capable of wireless connection to the local area computer network.
许多手机允许用户上网，但只有一些较新的手机能够无线连接到本地计算机网络。
The earliest humans arrived several million years ago, but only 150,000 to 200,000 years ago, did cultures, language, religion and the arts arise.
人类最早出现在几百万年前，但直到15万到20万年前，才出现了文化、语言、宗教和艺术。
Punishment can never be used as an instrument of revenge but only for what he calls the correction or what we would call the rehabilitation of the offender.
惩罚永远不能被用作复仇的工具，而只能用于他所说的纠正，或者我们所说的让罪犯改过自新。
It deals, of course, with the techniques of music, but only in order to show how technique is directed toward expressive aims in music and toward the listener's musical experience.
当然，它涉及音乐的技巧，但只是为了表明技巧是如何指向音乐的表达目的和听众的音乐体验的。
Various interventions, such as infection-fighting drugs, can increase a population's average survival time, but only approaches that slow the body's rate of aging will increase the maximum lifespan.
各种干预措施，如抗感染药物，可以增加人口的平均存活时间，但只有那些减缓人体衰老速度的方法才能延长最长寿命。
The film touches on these issues, but only superficially.
这部电影触及了这些问题，但很肤浅。
Poverty forced her to surrender him to foster families, but only on the understanding that she could eventually regain custody.
贫困迫使她把他交给了寄养家庭,但她是在明确她最终一定能重新获得抚养权的条件下才这样做的。
It was because China had 22% of the world's population, but only 7% of its farmland.
因为中国有世界22%的人口，却只有世界7%的耕地。
There was not a question but only a small black "X" in the middle of the paper.
试卷上没有问题，只是在中间部分有一个黑色的小 “X”。
There was not a question but only a small black "X" in the middle of the paper.
试卷上没有问题，只是在中间部分有一个黑色的小 “X”。
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