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It is too easy, and misleading, to see such court rulings as merely standing up for the rights of land owners when the consequences can be so dire for their neighbors.

把这类法院裁决仅仅看作是在维护土地所有者的权利，未免过于轻率，也具有误导性，因为其后果对他们的邻居来说可能是极其严重的。

(48) One possibility was that they merely used their eyes and tried out the plants they found, but that would probably result in a lot of wasted time and energy, not least because their eyesight is actually not very good.

（48）一种可能是，它们仅仅靠眼睛观察，并尝试所发现的植物，但这很可能会浪费大量时间和精力，尤其是因为它们的视力其实并不好。

The Internet may be changing merely what we remember, not our capacity to do so, suggests Columbia University psychology professor Betsy Sparrow.

哥伦比亚大学心理学教授贝特西·斯帕罗认为，互联网改变的或许只是我们记住的内容，而非我们的记忆能力。

It says that the problem is not merely that people do bad science, but that our current system of career advancement positively encourages it.

该论文称，问题不仅仅在于人们做了糟糕的科学研究，还在于我们目前的职业晋升制度实际上在鼓励这种研究。

Ms Denham chose to concentrate the blame on the NHS trust, since under existing law it “controlled” the data and DeepMind merely “processed” it.

德纳姆女士选择把责任集中归咎于该NHS信托，因为根据现行法律，是它“控制”着数据，而DeepMind只是“处理”了数据。

Merely helping a gift-giver gain access to other officials, unless done with clear intent to pressure those officials, is not corruption, the justices found.

大法官们认定，仅仅帮助送礼者接触其他官员并不构成腐败，除非这样做带有向这些官员施压的明确意图。