Merely

(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'.

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• Being merely sheltered by others would not promote growth. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Merely that I don't like it. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• She merely observed that he was perfectly good humoured and friendly. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Much of their theory must seem to the modern mind merely fanciful and unsupported speculation. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• 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·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The surplus he holds merely as custodian, and it is passed on to the younger members of the community as necessity demands. 埃德加·赖斯·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. 雪莉.
• It is not merely an arbitrary decision of theirs, come to without reason. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• 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. 简·爱.
• We merely glanced at it and were ready for home. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• 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. 雪莉.
• This is merely a friend's letter. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Nothing would be resolved by merely walking, walking away. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• But it merely made him stiff. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• If such gradations were not all fully preserved, transitional varieties would merely appear as so many new, though closely allied species. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• If we are discouraged it is because we tend to identify statecraft with that official government which is merely one of its instruments. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Merely that I consider you a dead bore, I added, as I stepped into the hackney coach and was followed by Julia. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• 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. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities; now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• 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. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• I merely wish that we should--ha--understand each other. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• 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. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I speak of really a great lady, not merely great to him, but married to a gentleman of your condition, Sir Leicester. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• In modern times we should say that art is not merely imitation, but rather the expression of the ideal in forms of sense. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• 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. 世纪发明.
• 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. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• 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. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• I hope, Bounderby,' said Mr. Gradgrind, in a conciliatory voice, 'that this was merely an oversight. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• I hastily broke open the plain wafer seal, and found a two hundred pound bank-note, merely enclosed in a blank cover. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Were it known to the rest of my family, I should not have merely my own gratitude to express. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.

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