英文諺語 Beauty is but skin deep 定 beauty is only skin deep?

上面的答案都錯。你才是對。Beauty is but skin deep 是經典明句，未聽過話呢句錯的真是孤漏寡聞。其實不只這句，在英文用個 BUT 代替 ONLY 是好普遍的用法，比 ONLY 有更肯定的語氣。

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咁多人用都有錯，你話呢？

And that same century, the philosopher Herbert Spencer literally turned the current proverb on itself to make it a clever rebuke in 'Personal Beauty' (1863): 'The saying that beauty is but skin deep is a skin deep saying. ...
www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/22/messages/176.html - 10k


這是英文名句，歷史悠久。

BUT 這裏是 ADVERB， 解 ONLY，看看字典。

Adv.1.but - and nothing more; "I was merely asking"; "it is simply a matter of time"; "just a scratch"; "he was only a child"; "hopes that last but a moment"just, merely, only, simply
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/but

其實你帶出了一個好多人遇到的問題，把見過人用的英文說法，名句等，引用在作文，遭老師批改，但見很多人用，結果要上討論區求證。Beauty is but skin deep是句名句，我寫就一定不會改做 ONLY，如果老師批我錯我會想應否和他拗，還是等明年有個好些老師，還是轉校。幸好，我從未遇過要跟老師拗的場合，否則我會轉校。明年升級遇另一個英文老師，你大可寫多次再試試。香港不乏外藉英語老師和英文電視台，網上也有大把。當眾人皆錯我獨對，便要對自己有信心。以後大把咁既機會。


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2007-01-27 20:54:01 補充：
補充一下，beauty is only skin deep 也是對的。不過原文也是用 SKIN DEEP，只是後來後人講成 ONLY。Proverb. First found in a work by Sir Thomas Overbury's, 1613: "All the carnall beauty of my wife, Is but skin deep."http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/59200.html

2007-01-27 20:55:59 補充：
也有資料這麼說 （不過按不到個 LINK 入去）Beauty is only skin deep是諺語，那only也可改作but。But同樣有“不過”、“僅僅”的意思，但多見于書面，少用于口頭， ... Beauty is but skin deep.（我認為學識比美貌重要。美貌不能持久）。(2) I don’t like her. Her beauty is only skin deep. ...www.chinapress.com.my/topic/english/default.asp?art=0527eg01.txt - 139k -

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雖然初時也不清楚此用法,但經閱畢你的解答後就完全明白!!

beauty is only skin deep
意思係美只是表面的 或 不可以貎取人

所有writing english當然係要跟字典架啦
好多時就算係speaking正確，到writing時就會變左錯。
所以你都係跟返字典吧啦

beauty is only skin deep

Both are essentially correct but in good oxford english - the right idiom to use is 'Beauty is only skin deep'.