exist only in name

基本解释

You should, and could have preserved your city walls and all those city gates, which now exist only in name.
你们应该并能够保留你们的城墙和全部城门，而这些城墙城门现在只是有名无实。
If such a view were to prevail, Singapore would eventually become a monolingual society and the bilingual policy would exist only in name.
如果让这种主张占主导，到头来，新加坡必成为单语社会，双语政策名存实亡。
As a social organization, before country appeared, commune always exist in every history period, only exist differences in name, in nature and form of expression.
公社，作为一种社会组织形式，总是召见于国家产生前的社会形态的各个历史时期之中，只不过存在着名称、表现形式及性质的差异。