Only to

I didn't mean to hurt her, only to keep her still.

我不是故意要弄痛她，只是想让她别乱动。

He had tasted freedom only to lose it again.

他刚尝到了自由的甜头，却又失去了。

She appeared to have changed considerably, which was only to be expected.

她看起来变化很大，不过这完全是在意料之中的。

You have only to tell me which one you want to choose.

你只需告诉我你要选哪个.

The young man is dead. We have only to consider the living.

这位年轻人已经死了。我们只能考虑在生之人。

Lift a rock only to drop it on one's own toes.

搬起石头打自己的脚.

It only takes one careless driver to cause an accident.

只要有一个粗心大意的驾驶员便会发生车祸。

The god appears only to those who believe.

信神如神在。

He reveals his innermost feelings only to his best friend.

他把最隐秘的想法只告诉最好的朋友.

As a major health risk hepatitis is second only to tobacco.

肝炎是仅次于吸烟的主要健康隐患。

What I am saying applies only to some of you.

我所说的只涉及你们中的一些人。

The government imposed a windfall tax (= a tax on profits to be paid once only, not every year) on some industries.

政府对某些行业征收暴利税。

She knew she had only to call and he would come running.

她知道只要打个电话，他就会高高兴兴地照办。

The spreadsheet application is second only to word processing in terms of popularity.

就受欢迎程度而言，电子制表软件仅次于文字处理软件。

The attack was unsuccessful and served only to alert the enemy.

进攻未奏效，反而使敌人警觉起来。

The regulations refer only to children.

这些规定只适用于小孩子.

The following applies only to tenants in occupation after January 1 2003.

以下规定仅适用于2003年1月1日后入住的房客。

This report would be intelligible only to an expert in computing.

只有计算机运算专家才能看懂这份报告。

She writes me often, if only to scold me because I haven't written to her.

她常来信，即使仅仅为了责怪我还没回信给她。

Pausing only to pull on a sweater, he ran out of the house.

他只停下来穿了件毛衣就冲出了屋外。

Ryle tried the Embassy, only to be told that Hugh was in a meeting.

赖尔试着找了大使馆，却被告知休正在开会。

If you lose your job, you'll only have yourself to blame.

如果你丢掉了工作，你只能责怪你自己。

subsistence agriculture/farming (= growing enough only to live on, not to sell)

收成仅够自身口粮的自给农业

Their attitude only strengthened his resolve to fight on.

他们采取的态度反而使他坚定了继续战斗的决心。

We have only to read the labels to know what ingredients are in foods.

我们只要看一下标签即可知道食品的成分。

The emerging caution over numbers is perhaps only to be expected.

对数字显露出来的谨慎可能完全是正常的。

Some benefits apply only to men, much to the indignation of working women.

让职业女性大为不平的是有些福利只提供给男性。

He went to church only to mock.

他去教堂只想嘲笑宗教.

They are there only to satisfy their ghoulish curiosity.

他们去那里纯粹是为了满足其病态的好奇心。

She made no reference to her illness but only to her future plans.

她没有提到她的病，只说了她未来的计划。