Merely
['mɪəlɪ] or ['mɪrli]
解釋/意思:
(adv.) 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'.
格温錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(adv.) Purely; unmixedly; absolutely.
(adv.) Not otherwise than; simply; barely; only.
校對:米利森特
同義詞及近義詞:
ad. Simply, purely, only, solely, barely.
編輯:曼纽尔
例句/造句/用法:
- Being merely sheltered by others would not promote growth. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Merely that I don't like it. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- She merely observed that he was perfectly good humoured and friendly. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Much of their theory must seem to the modern mind merely fanciful and unsupported speculation. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- I merely intend to make myself entrancingly agreeable to every one I know, and to keep them in your corner as long as possible. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The surplus he holds merely as custodian, and it is passed on to the younger members of the community as necessity demands. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- So long, so totally separated from him, merely to see his home, to enter the room where he had that morning sat, felt like a reunion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It is not merely an arbitrary decision of theirs, come to without reason. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- It seems to me that she might, by merely sitting quietly at his side, saying little and looking less, get nigher his heart. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- We merely glanced at it and were ready for home. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Only you would rather they would do something worse than merely stop a wagon before you reckon with them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- This is merely a friend's letter. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Nothing would be resolved by merely walking, walking away. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- But it merely made him stiff. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- If such gradations were not all fully preserved, transitional varieties would merely appear as so many new, though closely allied species. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- If we are discouraged it is because we tend to identify statecraft with that official government which is merely one of its instruments. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Merely that I consider you a dead bore, I added, as I stepped into the hackney coach and was followed by Julia. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The Edison concentrating plant has been sketched in the briefest outline with a view of affording merely a bare idea of the great work of its projector. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities; now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- He looked at them slightly, without seeming to know who they were, and merely nodded to Mrs. Jennings from the other side of the room. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- I merely wish that we should--ha--understand each other. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- As it was, she merely stipulated, If you bring the boy back with his head blown to bits by a musket, don't look to me to put it together again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I speak of really a great lady, not merely great to him, but married to a gentleman of your condition, Sir Leicester. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- In modern times we should say that art is not merely imitation, but rather the expression of the ideal in forms of sense. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Formerly augers and similar boring tools had merely a curved sharpened end and a concavity to hold the chips, and the whole tool had to be withdrawn to empty the chips. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- If nothing came of it, I should be no worse off, and there would merely be a short delay in my presenting myself to Lightwood. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It is evident the idea of darkness is no positive idea, but merely the negation of light, or more properly speaking, of coloured and visible objects. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- I hope, Bounderby,' said Mr. Gradgrind, in a conciliatory voice, 'that this was merely an oversight. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- I hastily broke open the plain wafer seal, and found a two hundred pound bank-note, merely enclosed in a blank cover. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Were it known to the rest of my family, I should not have merely my own gratitude to express. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
編輯:曼纽尔