Mere
[mɪə] or [mɪr]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a small pond of standing water.
(adj.) being nothing more than specified; 'a mere child' .
埃德娜校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A pool or lake.
(n.) A boundary.
(v. t.) To divide, limit, or bound.
(n.) A mare.
(Superl.) Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.
(Superl.) Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form.
手打:维罗妮卡
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Bare, simple, nothing else but.
n. Pool, lake.
編輯:斯坦利
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Pure, unmixed, absolute, uninfluenced, unadulterated, unaffected, simple
ANT:Mixed, compound, impure, biased
編輯:苏珊娜
解釋/意思:
adj. unmixed: pure: only this and nothing else: alone: absolute.—adj. Mered (Shak.) only entire.—adv. Mere′ly purely simply: only: thus and no other way: solely.
n. a boundary.—v.t. to limit or bound.—ns. Mere′stead the land within the boundaries of a farm: Mere′stone a stone which marks a boundary.
n. a pool or lake.—Also Meer.
編輯:丽诺尔
例句/造句/用法:
- What I mean is, Lizzie, that I am a mere impertinent piece of conceit, and you shame me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- And education is not a mere means to such a life. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- It isn't a mere pleasure trip to me, girls, she said impressively, as she scraped her best palette. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- A mere habit in me, sir. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I reassured him on this point, and, as well as I could, I showed him the mere outline of my experience. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Mr. Jobling is buttoned up closer than mere adornment might require. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- What you want me to serve, is nothing, mere nothing. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- As mere school studies, their acquisition has only a technical worth. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- As for Betteredge, consistency of principle and dignity of conduct had become, in his case, mere empty words. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- There is mere spatial redistribution. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- If the atmosphere were composed of oxygen alone, the merest flicker of a match would set the whole world ablaze. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Tall and muscular as I was in form, I must have looked like, what indeed I was, the merest ruffian that ever trod the earth. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- What is to me a means of livelihood is to him the merest hobby of a dilettante. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- At last, I discovered by the merest accident that this man had a wife, to whom he had been married four years, as well as three fine young children. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- My dear Laura, the merest trifles are of importance where Anne Catherick is concerned. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- If he is picked up by the Cretan steamer, and his yacht is now lying at Syra, I have no doubt he will; but it is all the merest chance. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Our minds embrace infinity; the visible mechanism of our being is subject to merest accident. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I had no idea of the lengths to which this would carry him, until the merest accident opened my eyes to it. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- The merest awkward country girl, without style, or elegance, and almost without beauty. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- For it was indeed that most respectable saloon, in which Prude and I were making an exhibition of our pretty persons, owing to the merest ignorance. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
整理:卢修斯