What is the translation of " 他们不过是 " in English?

• they're just
• they were simply

Examples of using 他们不过是 in Chinese and their translations into English

网友19：伙计，他们不过是报道情况而已.
User19: they're just reporting.

他们不过是恐怖分子而以战争罪犯的命运结局。
They were simply among the terrorists who later ended up as war criminals.

对于共和党来说，他们不过是游戏的一部分。
For the Republican Party, they're just part of the game.

他们不过是环境的产物而已。
They are simply products of their environment.

他们不过是两个有心理障碍的可怜人罢了。
They are just two poor people with mental disorders.

他们不过是三个,我的主。
We were not only three, my Lord.

对另一些人来说，他们不过是天空上的小灯盏罢了。
For others they are nothing but small lights.

他们不过是一帮鸟民!
But they're just a bunch of birds!

他们不过是对资本的横暴掠夺设置一些限制而已。
They only set limits to the tyrannical usurpations of capital.

然而，说穿了，他们不过是共犯而已。
But by saying nothing, they are complicit.

他们不过是人醒来后的一场梦。
As it were a dream after a man is awakened.

他们不过是性别相同而已。
It is only because they are the same gender.

对另一些人来说，他们不过是天空上的小灯盏罢了。
For others they are merely little lights in the sky.

他们不过是一枚棋子。
They're still one piece.

他们不过是破碎的乐趣和毫无根据的标志项目;
They were but a sign of broken joys and baseless projects;

有些丈夫和妻子以为他们花时间在一起，其实他们不过是住得很近。
Some husbands and wives think they're spending quality time with each other, when really they're just living in close proximity of each other.

真的，以前他们不过是一些糊涂虫，而现在他们突然成了虚无主义者。
The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they have suddenly become nihilists.

支持加勒特夫妇的人说，他们不过是一个更大的地缘政治冲突中的棋子。
Those supporting the Garratts say the couple were simply chess pieces in a larger geopolitical skirmish.

他们不过是暴徒、罪犯、害人者，对，是失败者。
They are nothing but thugs, and criminals, and predators, and- that's right- losers.

他们不过是华盛顿政府的代理人，也是整个老板阶级的代理人。
They were nothing but the agents of the government in Washington, which in turn is the agent of the employing class as a whole.

他们不过是一个原子,在这里,在堆山的痛苦,这增加了他们的视线绝望和痛苦。
They were but an atom, here, in a mountain heap of misery, the very sight of which increased their hopelessness and suffering.

有些丈夫和妻子以为他们花时间在一起，其实他们不过是住得很近。
Some husbands and wives think they're spending time together when, in reality, they're only living in close proximity.

至于普通人，主知道，也让他们知道，他们不过是尘土。
And as for ordinary men, the Lord knows, and makes them to know, that they are but dust.

但为了保持温水的状态，我便得出这样的结论--他们不过是全明星基督徒罢了。
But to stay lukewarm, I concluded that these were simply Christian all-stars.

这是没有这么多，我们的销售跌破预测，”布朗说，“他们不过是一对夫妇的后面几个月的时间。
It wasn't so much that our sales fell below projections," Brown says," ⁣but that they were a couple of months behind.".

我想，他不过是在替我难过。
I think he just feels sorry for me.

他说，他不过是布什总统的一个顾问而已。
So he was not only an adviser to President Bush.

他不过是想去救个人而已。
He just tried to save someone.

他不过是想去救个人而已。
He just wants to save someone.