汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 只能
只能
can only / obliged to do sth / to have no other choice
zhǐ/zhī néng
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

乙别无选择只能宣告破产。

B had no choice but to declare bankruptcy.

抗生素只能凭处方购买。

Antibiotics are only available by prescription.

但我们只能干瞪眼。

So we could do nothing but look on.

创业者要么只能接受投资者开出的条款,要么只能自己想办法赚到钱。

Entrepreneurs can either take whatever terms investors are willing to offer, or they can figure out how to get cash-flow positive by themselves.

我们只能匆匆忙忙地吃饭。

We had to rush our meal.

有些形容词只能用作定语。

Some adjectives can only be used attributively.

最多只能容纳20个人。

There was room for 20 people at the outside.

它们太忙了,只能草草了事。

It keeps 'em so busy they fair scuffle to get 'em done.

不管怎样,我们只能一步一个脚印往前走。

We can only ever do one step at a time anyway .

生活资料只能按算术级数增长。

Subsistence only increases in an arithmetic ratio .