| EXAMPLE SENTENCES | ||
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书籍价廉物美，不啻我们呼吸的空气。 They are to be very cheap and good. We breathe but the air of books. | ||
你借钱给他，不啻把钱丢在海里。 You might as well throw your money into the sea as lend it to him. | ||
其余的不啻于为投降主义正名的夸夸其谈罢了。 All the rest is a fancy way of justifying surrender. | ||
对于这位72岁的演员，卡林的书不啻是个天赐良机。 Carlin's book came as a godsend to the 72-year-old actor. | ||
他熟谙中国的历史、地理、社会、文化等方面，不啻是一部活的中国近代史词典。 He had a sound knowledge of Chinese history, geography, society and culture, like a living dictionary of Chinese contemporary history. | ||
这不啻微观世界中一个初具雏形的国际等级体系：以英语为母语的人占尽风头。 Here, in microcosm, was a nascent international hierarchy: native English - speakers rule. | ||
“建设”论者则强调，国难当头，别说停止建设，即使放缓建设的步伐也不啻在自讨覆亡。 Those who hold the view of construction emphasize that in the period of national calamity, slowing down the pace of construction means to court one's own ruin, let alone stopping construction. | ||
对参赛队来说，狂野杯给他们提供的不啻是一个少有的得到世界认可的机会。 For the teams taking part, it provided a rare chance to be recognized on the world stage. | ||
它不啻起镇静作用的反应停，使紧张情绪放松片刻，却导致沮丧失意感这一畸形儿的产生。 It has been a tranquilizing Thalidomide, relieving the emotional stress for a moment, only to give birth to an ill-formed infant of frustration. | ||
