只不过
zhǐ​bu​guò HSK5

only

只不过 只不過 zhǐ​bu​guò
only adverb
only; just; merely; nothing more than; used to emphasize that something is limited in size, amount, or importance

我要的只不过是简单又幸福的生活。

wǒ yào de zhǐ​bu​guò shì jiǎn​dān yòu xìng​fú de shēng​huó.

All I want is a happy, simple life.

过去，只不过是我们讲给自己听的故事。

guò​qù, zhǐ​bu​guò shì wǒ​men jiǎng gěi zì​jǐ tīng de gù​shi.

The past is just a story that we tell ourselves.

it's just that
it is simply that; used to introduce a reason or a slight reservation that explains a situation

Frequency
Movie subtitles
72.2 per million appears in 25% of films
Written text
31.0 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 5

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Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)