only

only

英[ˈəʊnli]美[ˈoʊnli]

adv.只有，只不过，仅仅，唯有，…才，只能，只会不料；

adj.唯一的，独生的，*好的；

conj. 不过；

英语六级真题

Travel was arduous and costly throughout the period, possible only for a privileged class—the same that produced gentlemen scientists, authors, antique experts, and patrons of the arts.

They cannot be attributed to weather only.

The Russian, Greek and Polish storks flew as far as South Africa, while those from Spain, Tunisia and Germany flew only as far as the Sahel.

Renewables account for only a small share of global primary energy consumption, which is still dominated by fossil fuels—30% each for coal and oil, 25% for natural gas.

Only about 50 students are invited based on their performance on written tests and at the USA Math Olympiad.

In order to maximize global welfare, every country's carbon pricing should reflect not only the purely domestic damage from emissions, but also the damage to foreign countries.

Futures markets, which show only a modest recovery of prices to around $60 a barrel by 2019, support this view.

Direct subsidies to research and development have been adopted by some governments but are a poor substitute for a carbon price: they do only part of the job, leaving in place market incentives to over-use fossil fuels and thereby add to the stock of atmospheric greenhouse gases without regard to the collateral ( ' , 附带的) costs.

But that's not the only uncertainty.

Andrea Flack of the Max Planck Institute found that birds following traditional migration routes were more likely to die than German storks that flew only as far as northern Morocco, and spent the winter there on rubbish dumps.

According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or Hispanic student—and only a handful of girls—has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence.

It concerns not only us sociologists, but also economists, politicians and business people.

Whether this is right, and if so where and when the ecological axe will fall, is hard to determine with any precision—which is why governments and financial institutions are only beginning to bring such risks into their economic calculations.

Wealth is not, of course, the only factor involved.

The fundamental fix—reshaping how care is delivered and how doctors are paid in a wasteful, abnormal system—is likely to be achieved only through trial and error and incremental ( ' , 渐进的) gains.

The elevation of the room that once belonged only to the servants to that of design showcase for the modem family tells the story of a century of social change.

That would be true only if you believed that patients should have an unrestrained right to treatments proven to be inferior.

Only three states, with a combined population not much larger than that of Brooklyn, have unemployment rates below 5%.

Interviews with students find many of them are only concerned about personal matters.

In poor, dry regions, untreated wastewater is the only viable irrigation source to keep farmers in business.

He thinks it the only way out of the current food crisis.

For example, only one boy said he would like to be president when he grows up.

Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented ( ' , depending on the student's values), and being more respectful of the Earth, animals and other people.

it is unfair to those climate-vulnerable nationsit aims to keep temperature rise below 2 ℃ onlyit is beneficial to only fewer than 4% of countriesit burdens developed countries with the sole responsibilityThey needn't worry about the food and water they consume.

What a waste of money! In return for an average of ~44,000 of debt, students get an average of only 14 hours of lecture and tutorial time a week in Britain.

The U.S. is also the only advanced economy that does not guarantee workers paid vacation time, and it's one of only two countries in the world that does not offer guaranteed paid maternity leave.

The ROWE participants were allowed to freely determine when, where and how they worked – the only thing that mattered was that they got the job done.

Studying at university will only become less attractive if employers shift their focus away from where someone went to university--and there is no sign of that happening anytime soon.

Only 13 percent of respondents said that they were interested in buying a smartwatch in 2016, for example – an increase of just one percent from the previous year despite a year of high-profile launches.

Not only that, it supports a number of platforms: Apple's i OS, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows phone.

No wonder only 13% of employees worldwide feel engaged in their occupation.

It's not only unsustainable for workers, but also for the companies that employ them.

It's a dramatic endorsement for a technology most people think about only when their smartphone goes dark.

In a 2011 study, she investigated the effects of implementing a Results Only Work Environment ( ' , ROWE) on the productivity and well-being of employees at Best Buy's corporate headquarters.

If going to university doesn't work out, students pay very little--if any--of their tuition fees back: you only start repaying when you are earning ￡21,000 a year.

Full-time employees who do have paid vacation days only use half of them on average.

For example, when asked whether they would buy a new smartphone this year, only 48 percent said yes – a six-point drop from 2015.

But this third group was not only unexpected, it was so distinct and so large—nearly one third of our sample—that it became a key finding of the study.

Now what’s interesting about the theory is what do you have if you only have one out of three or two out of three? What do you have and how is it different if you have a different two out of three? What’s interesting about this kind of theorizing is it gives rise to many different combinations that can be quite interesting when you break them down and start to look at them carefully.

In the past few months, I’ve been travelling for weeks at a time with only one suitcase of clothes.

on average, only 12 to 14 hours a week studying and many were skating through their semesters without doing a significant amount of reading and writing.

Williams worked at a managerial level, while only 38.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for instance, admits only that the graduation rate for its first-generation pupils is much lower than the percentage of all students who graduate within four years ( ' , 81 percent).

The Black group, on the other hand, put his salary at about ＄29,000, and guessed that he had only some college experience.

Obama is only the most prominent public figure to declare inequality Public Enemy No.

Not only moving objects and people but all systems have momentum.

Located only a few hours apart, The University of Tennessee and Tennessee State are worth comparing.

It's not only the selective and elite institutions that provide those opportunities for a small subset of this population, Rubinoff said, adding that a majority of first-generation undergraduates tend toward options such as online programs, two-year colleges, and commuter state schools.

It should not be confined to the rich only.

If you want to change his course, you have only a few choices: you can stop him, transferring ( ' , possibly painfully) some of his kinetic energy ( ' , 动能 ) to your own body, or you can approach alongside and slowly apply pressure to gradually alter his course.

Higher education institutions are, under federal law, required to report graduation rates, but these reports typically only include Pell recipient number—not necessarily rates specific to first-generation students.

College graduates will still fare better than those with only s high school education, of course.

As lighting expert Howard Brandston points out, Generally, there are no bad light sources, only bad applications.

And there is more to the story, because not only are the devices that house incandescent bulbs shaped to their underlying characteristics, but rooms and entire buildings have been designed in accordance with how incandescent lighting reflects off walls and windows.

And not only do our prospective new energy workers have to be trained, they have to be trained in the right sequence.

After all, we don't speak only of objects or people as having momentum; we speak of entire systems having momentum.

"It's not only the selective and elite institutions that provide those opportunities for a small subset of this population," Rubinoff said, adding that a majority of first-generation undergraduates tend toward options such as online programs, two-year col

A slow response to a message could hurt not only your reputation but also your livelihood.

A spirit of openness is gaining acceptance in the science community, and is the only way,say advocates,to address a ‘crisis' in science whereby too few findings are successfully reproduced.

According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or hispanic student—and only a handful of girls—has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence.

According to the New England historical Society, Hale wrote only part of the poem, but claimed authorship.

Almost half of the sites didn't get a passing grade and only 18 percent got an A or B.

Although going to college is supposed to be a full-time job, students spent, on average, only 12 to 14 hours a week studying and many were skating through their semesters without doing a significant amount of reading and writing.

Although many of the churches appear from the outside to be complex structures, they normally feature only a single storey but numerous different roof levels.

American universities, despite their global reputation for excellence in teaching, have only begun to demonstrate what they can produce in real-world learning.

And it’s very expensive because it comes from a special type of pig that only eats a special type of food.

And scientists are only just beginning to understand what those constraints are.

And that conclusion is based only on students nearing graduation.

And there is more to the story, because not only are the devices that house incandescent bulbs shaped to their underlying characteristics, but rooms and entire buildings have been designed in accordance with how incandescent lighting reflects off walls an

And workers on part-time contracts, who only work four or five hours a day, are happier than those who work full-time.

And, unlike nutrients that are found only in few foods, protein is present in all foods.

As lighting expert Howard Brandston points out, " Generally, there are no bad light sources, only bad applications. "

As marketing professors Silvia Bellezza, Neeru Paharia, and Anat Keinan recently explained in Hazard Business Review HBR, leisure time was once seen as an indicator of high social status, something attainable only for those at the top.

Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented d

At the University of California (UC), we pride ourselves not only on the quality of our research, but also on its contribution to improving our world.

Businesses in order to boost their profits hire employees as part-time workers only.

But according to a 2008 review, only one study that followed this design found that students actually learned best with their preferred style.

But Elop was not the only person at fault.

But if we're talking about the benefits to society, the only thing that matters is what the major enables the student to produce for society.

But in Bangladesh, a population 600 times greater, speaks only 41 languages.

But it's not only women who are affected by this pressure to look good.

But now a systematic review and analysis of studies by Canadian researchers found that not only does pasta not cause weight gain, but three meals a week can help people drop more than half a kilogram over four months.

But now, with only 30 wooden churches remaining and their condition deteriorating, experts are working to preserve the structures for future generations.

But the only way college could be free is if the faculty and staff donated their time, the buildings required no maintenance, and campuses required no utilities.

But when our diverse team of researchers from six different disciplines and eight different countries began to review what was known, we were shocked that only a dozen previous studies had been done, including one we ourselves completed on language divers

But, he says extreme events become disasters only when people fail to prepare for them.

College graduates will still fare better than those with only a high school education, of course.

Consequently, before going into any stressful situation, focus only on what you want to have happened.

Direct subsidies to research and development have been adopted by some governments but are a poor substitute for a carbon price: they do only part of the job, leaving in place market incentives to over-use fossil fuels and thereby add to the stock of atmo

During a month-long hospital trial,researchers asked 70 patients how they felt being around the robot and "only three or four said they didn't like having it around".

Even in June of 2007, when the economy was still moving ahead, job growth was only 132,000, while turnover was 4.7 million!

Even people with the sharpest facial-recognition skills can only remember so much.

Flamingos, however, are the only species that actually makes life in the midst of all that death.

For hundreds of thousands of Cascadia residents, "The Big One" isn’t a question of if, only when.

For this reason, community interventions and government job programs that offer summer and vacation work are not only economically beneficial but also help to stimulate the adolescent's sense of worth.

Getting input from others not only offers a fresh perspective and thought process, it often also includes riskier choices.

higher education institutions are, under federal law, required to report graduation rates, but these reports typically only include Pell recipient number — not necessarily rates specific to first-generation students.

I have enough trouble delivering bikes to shops only forty miles away, never mind five thousand miles.

If every distraction took only 1 minute, that would account for 2.5 hours a day.

If going to university doesn't work out, students pay very little—if any—of their tuition fees back: you only start repaying when you are earning £21,000 a year.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

ADV

（表示比较而言唯一真实、恰当或必要的情况）只，只有

You use only to indicate the one thing that is true, appropriate, or necessary in a particular situation, in contrast to all the other things that are not true, appropriate, or necessary.

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ADV

（引出发生的必要条件）只有…（才）

You use only to introduce the thing which must happen before the thing mentioned in the main part of the sentence can happen.

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ADJ

唯一的；仅有的

If you talk about the only person or thing involved in a particular situation, you mean there are no others involved in it.

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ADJ

（孩子）独生的,仅有的

An only child is a child who has no brothers or sisters.

ADV

(尤用于想要纠正错误观点时)只不过，仅…而已

You use only to indicate that something is no more important, interesting, or difficult, for example, than you say it is, especially when you want to correct a wrong idea that someone may get or has already got.

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ADV

（强调数量少或时间短）才，仅仅

You use only to emphasize how small an amount is or how short a length of time is.

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ADV

（强调是其中的一小部分，而非全部）只，仅仅

You use only to emphasize that you are talking about a small part of an amount or group, not the whole of it.

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ADV

（用于 can 或 could 之后，强调除此以外别无可为）只（能）

Only is used after 'can' or 'could' to emphasize that it is impossible to do anything except the rather inadequate or limited action that is mentioned.

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ADV

（强调希望或愿望）唯有，非常

You can use only in the expressions I only wish or I only hope in order to emphasize what you are hoping or wishing.

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CONJ-SUBORD

（用于表示稍加改动或限定）只是，不过

Only can be used to add a comment which slightly changes or limits what you have just said.

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CONJ-SUBORD

（用于含有 would 的从句后，引出未做某事的原因）要不是，若非

Only can be used after a clause with 'would' to indicate why something is not done.

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ADV

（用于不定式前）不料，结果却

You can use only before an infinitive to introduce an event which happens immediately after one you have just mentioned, and which is rather surprising or unfortunate.

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ADV

（强调行动或行为恰当）完全，真正

You can use only to emphasize how appropriate a certain course of action or type of behaviour is.

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ADV

（用于动词前，表示结果令人遗憾或不受欢迎）愈加，只（会）

You can use only in front of a verb to indicate that the result of something is unfortunate or undesirable and is likely to make the situation worse rather than better.

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PHRASE

只要（做…）即可

If you say you only have to or have only to do one thing in order to achieve or prove a second thing, you are emphasizing how easily the second thing can be achieved or proved.

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PHRASE

刚才；刚刚

You can say that something has only just happened when you want to emphasize that it happened a very short time ago.

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仅仅；勉强

You use only just to emphasize that something is true, but by such a small degree that it is almost not true at all.

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太；极

You can use only too to emphasize that something is true or exists to a much greater extent than you would expect or like.

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PHRASE

（强调乐意）极，非常

You can say that you are only too happy to do something to emphasize how willing you are to do it.

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英汉词典释义

adj.

惟一的, 仅有的

*好的, 的；*适当的

(同类中)较少的

(子女)独生的

adv.

只有, 才

仅在…情况下（或地点等）

只不过，仅…而已

只有，仅，刚刚

（直到）…才，（只是）…才

仅此而已，只能

（用于说明事情的恶果）只会，愈加

不料，竟然

反而；结果却

作为惟一

conj.

〈非正〉 只是, 但是，不过，可是

英英词典释义

Adjective

1. being the only one; single and isolated from others;

2. exclusive of anyone or anything else;

Adverb

1. and nothing more;

2. without any others being included or involved;

3. with nevertheless the final result;

4. in the final outcome;

5. except that;

6. never except when;

7. as recently as;