英语释义

• a small pond of standing water

• apart from anything else; without additions or modifications;

  "only the bare facts"

  "shocked by the mere idea"

  "the simple passage of time was enough"

  "the simple truth"

• being nothing more than specified;

  "a mere child"

片语

Mere habit习惯而已

mere trifle小意思

mere stone an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab

同义词： merestone meerestone mearstone

mere right名义权利

De Mere贵族德·梅耳

mere access更多的机会

Mere Anarchy只是混乱

mere subsistence温饱

mere a仅仅的

mere exposure纯粹暴露效应

a mere nobody微不足道的人

英汉例句

• for him the netsuke, so small and captivating, were not enough as a mere signpost to a family history.

  对他而言这些小巧迷人的吊坠并不能够作为纯粹的家族风向标来看待。

• in town, i believe, he chiefly lived, but his studying the law was a mere pretence, and being now free from all restraint, his life was a life of idleness and dissipation.

  我相信他大半都住在城里，但是他所谓学法律，只不过是一个借口罢了，现在他既然摆脱了一切羁绊，便整天过着浪蕩挥霍的生活。

• but the container itself is a mere container.

  但是容器本身仅仅是一个容器。

• the availability of an application extends beyond the mere availability of the application itself.

  一个应用程序的可用性不仅仅是应用程序本身的可用性。

• they wondered in particular if the mere presence of a canine in the office might make people collaborate more effectively.

  他们特别好奇的一点是办公室里仅仅有狗的存在是否就能让人们合作得更有效率。

• but the mere discussion of these matters in the british parliament and by the public at large is, in itself, of huge importance.

  但是，仅仅是在英国国会讨论这些问题，并且得到广大民众的关注。 这本身就有极其重大的意义。

• rather, it is our capacity to reason and choose freely that makes us unique, that sets us apart from mere animals.

  相反，理性和自由选择是我们的能力，使我们变得独特，使我们跟单纯的动物区别开。

• he moved the audience onto another plane where they stopped thinking about technique, or mere pianism, and came face to face with the music, with beethoven himself.

  他把听众带到了另外一种境界，他们不再考虑技巧或纯粹的钢琴性，而是与音乐直接交流，与贝多芬本人直接交流。

• if you are behind schedule and a test case breaks, you must fix it quickly or it will become a mere sparkle in the history of your development effort.

  如果您落后进度了，且测试用例打破了，那么您必须快速处理否则它将成为您开发工作史上仅仅的闪光点。

• the mere acquisition of a smooth block of metal and glass does not magically persuade people that they should start paying for news.

  仅仅获得一块金属和玻璃做成的平板并不能如魔法般地使人们相信他们该开始花钱买新闻了。

• too many natural scientists embrace the comforting assumption that nature can be studied, indeed should be studied, in isolation from the human world, with people as mere observers.

  太多的自然科学家接受让人欣慰的假定，即研究自然可以（实际上应当）与人类世界分离，把人类当作纯粹的旁观者。

• still, that is largely a matter of mere nuisance.

  但是，大部分还是一件纯粹的麻烦事。

• some fear, however, that this sort of remark is mere pandering to moderates and the west.

  然而，一些人担心，这种言辞只不过是为了迎合中立派和西方国家。

• i wanted her far away from me, so unattainable that she could continue as the mere memory she had become and remained all these years.

  我想要她离我远一些，远到她没法继续与我维系这层关系，因为她变成了纯粹的记忆，而且这么多年就是这样保持着。

• it now seems, though, that such methane-based food chains may stretch farther up the tree of life than mere invertebrates—and may have done so for millions of years.

  现在看起来这些以甲烷为基础的食物链和纯粹的无脊椎动物相比，更可能会延长生命树，可能这种情形已经持续了数百万年。

• he was a mere child in the world, but he didn't cry for the moon.

  他在这世上只不过是一个小孩子罢了,可是,他没有哭着要月亮。

• if everything we have is measured by the mere value of dollars and cents, life is not truly worthwhile.

  假如我们所拥有的一切都用纯粹的金钱来衡量，那么生活就变得索然无味了。

• but is this mere propaganda?

  但是，这仅仅是宣传吗？

• but how does mere matter like this make a mind?

  但仅仅这个物质是如何产生思想的呢？

• are there any people, organisations or regimes so evil that the mere act of talking should be beyond the pale, no matter what is said?

  有哪个人、组织或者政权邪恶到如此地步，以至于仅仅和他开展谈判——而不管谈了什么——就算是越了雷池呢？

• for them these are not mere letters or mere words.

  对他们而言，这些并非纯粹的字母或是单词。

• this agreement, if not implemented, is a mere scrap of paper.

  这个协定如不执行只不过是一纸空文。

• from that period, for several months, she ceased to hold any communication with me, save in the relation of a mere servant.

  的确这责任是该她负，她自己也明白。从那个时期起，有好几个月，她不理我，仅仅保持主仆关系。