merely

merely

美 [ˈmɪrli] 　英 [ˈmɪə(r)li]

• adv.仅仅；只不过
• 网络只是；仅仅地

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It merely reflects the light of the sun, like a huge mirror hung in the sky.

这表明月亮本身不发光，它只是反射太阳光，象悬挂在天空中的一面镜子。

Sometimes, it seems as though civilian drivers merely failed to get off the road fast enough.

有时候，好像是平民司机离开道路的速度不够快。

But younger children are often merely trying to figure out a definition of the term.

不过，对于年纪小的孩子们来说，他们通常只是想要理解财富的概念。

Creating a synthetic ETF does not eliminate this illiquidity risk, but merely transforms it into a bet on the creditworthiness of a bank.

创建一个合成的ETF并不能消除这种不流动性风险，只是仅仅将其转化成了对银行信用度的赌注。

I do not want to put down to my account either nostalgia or bitterness, and I merely want to see clearly.

留恋也好，苦涩也好，我不想将此二者归于我的帐上，我只是想看得明明白白。

He had seen a mad woman in Battle Square, but she had merely clutched a bundle of rags and rocked herself to and fro, keening like a gull.

他曾在战争广场看过到一个疯女人，但那个女人只是紧紧抱着一束碎布，来来回回摇晃着身子，哭泣声，象只鸣叫的海鸥。

She said nothing, but merely sniffed and turned over the pages of her newspaper.

她不作声，只是鼻子里哼了一声，然后把手上的报纸翻了翻。

Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night.

这么说来，六月里那个夜晚他所向往的不单单是天上的星斗了。

But it may be a mistake to think of Mr Clegg merely as a force for realigning Britain's existing party landscape.

但认为克莱格先生仅是重新整合英国目前的政党格局的推动力，或许是错的。

Although he merely managed sixth in Athens, he's not one to let pressure rattle him in this supremely mental sport.

虽然在雅典奥运会上只取得了区区第六，但是在这个极度需要心理的体育项目中他不会让压力将自己压垮。

In his time, the reform carried out in Europe was being copied, but in many respects this copy was merely superficially reformative.

森鸥外所处的时代正在进行着效仿欧洲的改革，但是在很多方面又只是粗浅的表面的维新。

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.

将自己的生命和同胞视为没有意义的人，不但不快乐，而且没有能力生活。

and it may be that she was merely bored with her husband and went to Strickland out of a callous curiosity.

可能她不过对自己的丈夫感到厌倦，只是出于好奇心（并无任何热情在内）才去我的思特里克兰德。

The argument that labor should receive enough to buy back the product is merely a special form of the general "purchasing-power" argument.

劳工应当获得足够买回产品的工资的说法，只是一般“购买力论调”的一种特殊形式。

The infinite would thus seem to be merely neutralized by the finite, the subjective by the objective, thought by being.

按照这种看法，有限与无限，主观和客观，思维与存在，好像只是中和了似的。

He wasn't uncle to any of us; he was merely married to a distant relative of our parents' generation.

他其实不是我们任何一人的嫡亲姑父；只不过和我们父辈的一位远亲结了婚罢了。

The calls, they added, were merely a courtesy, offering to answer any questions that customers of the company might have.

他们补充称，必和必拓的电话只是礼节性的，表明该公司愿意回答客户可能有的任何问题。

College is just not the best choice for every person, and to say that it is merely sets students up for wasting four years of their lives.

大学并不是给每个人最好的选择，而且要说这只是让学生浪费他们四年光阴的话。

The man merely looked at him in irritation and motioned him to remain silent.

其他人只是不耐烦地看着他，并且示意他不要讲话。

At first I wondered if it was true. Wasn't the management merely trying to keep people calm?

是不是酒店管理人员仅仅是为了稳住大家，让大家冷静呢？

The profit was merely the condition of victory but the victory itself lay in the feat achieved.

利润仅仅是胜利的条件，而胜利本身则来自所具备的卓绝技艺。

These were merely the best-known examples.

这些只不过是人们最熟知的一些例子而已！

Yet, in our advertising, a mother is either not in view or is merely in the background.

然而在我们的广告里，要么根本看不见母亲，要么只是让她站在背景当中。

She didn't stir at Phyl's entry, merely let her book slip on to the floor, yawned and stretched her arms up.

菲儿进来时，她动也不动一下，只是让她在看的一本书滑到地上去。她打了个呵欠，伸个懒腰。

Poison to a snake is merely a luxury.

对蛇来说，毒液只不过是一种奢侈品。

It is merely [simply] a matter of time.

这仅仅是时间问题。

Economics can not stand content merely to describe the truth of life.

经济学不能仅仅满足于描述生活的实际情况。

Do, don't merely talk.

要干，别光嘴说。

It is merely on the question of procedure at the moment that we disagree.

目前我们意见不一致的地方仅仅在于步骤问题。

She said nothing, but merely sniffed and turned over the pages of her newspaper.

她不作声，只是鼻子里哼了一声，然后把手上的报纸翻了翻。

He wasn't uncle to any of us; he was merely married to a distant relative of our parents' generation.

他其实不是我们任何一人的嫡亲姑父；只不过和我们父辈的一位远亲结了婚罢了。

Basically, however, Hitler was merely trying to save face when he spoke of "recapture of a part of the territories now lost in the West" .

说穿了，希特勒所谓“收复现在失去的西方部分地区”，只不过是想保全自己的面子而已。

Hollis always reacted smoothly to any threats, and merely said he noted Arthur's comment but that his decision stood.

霍利斯对任何威胁总是作出圆滑的反应。他只是说，他注意到了阿瑟的意见，但坚持他的决定。

She acted well, but two or three of the old men were equally satisfied that it was merely acting.

虽然她装得十分象，但另外也有两三个年长的人发现她是做作的。

He had merely been a sailor from whim and a desire to spite his friends.

他之所以当了一名水手，只是为了他的怪癖，并想和他的朋友们赌一口气。

The desirable features of that project were merely that it would have initiated a small "second front" .

理想计划的特点是立刻开辟一小型的“第二战场”。

Soames was alarmed. He had really been struck by the plans, and the concealment of his satisfaction had been merely instinctive.

索米斯慌起来了。这张图样的确打动他的心，不过出于本性不肯明白表示罢了。

One form of colonial rule shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far greater iron tyranny.

一种形式殖民统治的消亡绝不仅仅是为了让另一种更加严酷的暴政来替代它。

It merely occurred to him that if he should drown it would be a shame.

他想到的只是，如果他被淹死，那将令人遗憾。

There was one person, however, in the house whom he could not leave to learn his sentiments merely through his conduct.

不过，在这座大厦里有一个他不能只用自己的行动来向她表明自己心情的人。

Bertha found reality tolerable when it was merely a background, a foil to the fantastic happenings of old books.

当真实不过是一种背景，一块供古书中的虚构故事生长的土壤时，伯莎觉得它是可以忍受的。

It is impossible to determine the volume of blood in the body merely by bleeding an animal to death.

仅靠使动物放血至死的方法，不可能测定体内的血量。

The horn is merely a round tube through which the air moves on its way into the engine cylinder.

这种喇叭形管仅仅是一个圆形的管子，空气通过它进入发动机汽缸。

I didn't like his friends, and his music seemed to be merely an excuse for the life he led. It sounded just that weird and disordered.

我不喜欢他的朋友，而且觉得他的音乐仅仅是他过的那种生活的借口而已，荒诞不经，乱七八糟。

His knowledge merely drives him to madness.

他的感受把他逼得发了疯。

This is merely one of the many instances of metaphysical theories seemingly conformed by facts.

这只不过是许许多多似乎有事实证明的形而上学理论之一罢了。

Like a good scientist, he merely gives the facts.

如同优秀的科学家一样，他只描写了事实。

It would merely have been an incident of battle.

这只是战争中的一件平凡的事。

Once upon a time there was a convenient-seeking fisherman and his woven net was merely as big as a table.

有一个渔夫贪图省事织的网只有一张桌子那么大。

He had a month, two at most, he said, and merely asked me to save my strength for the golf course.

他说他还有最多1到2个月的活头，他让我把我的力气留到高尔夫球场。

The seneschal had wondered about that hasty decision, but the old man had merely smiled and said, "No different than I did with you. "

总领很快就注意到他并要求他被包括在管理层。总管曾怀疑过这仓促的决定，但那老人只是笑笑并说，“跟我接纳你没有什么区别。”

The hireling, who may watch over the flock merely for a day's wage, is not expected to be so devoted.

至于雇工，他们看守羊群，只不过是为了一天的工资，没有人会企望他们尽心竭力的去牧养羊群。

It seemed to be merely an ordinary farmyard, with one big red lantern hanging on each side of the door.

从外面看不过是普通的农家院，门口高悬两盏红灯笼。

But that would not be a solution if it merely lead to indefinite financing of fundamentally uncompetitive economies.

但如果只是为根本上缺乏竞争力的经济体提供无限量融资，那这就称不上是什么解决办法。

Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.

因此，“天才”往往只是发挥了自己才干的有才之人。

There is so much to look forward to, that the changes should be seen as merely stepping stones that take you to your promised land.

在前方有那么多的美好事物去期待，改变将被看到，作为奠基石把你们带到承诺之地。

One of them has the grace to look quite uncomfortable and sorry; the other is merely bored, as if he wants this unpleasant part over with.

他们俩一个是看起来很不舒服和抱歉的样子，另外一个则无聊之极，仿佛他想这令人不愉快的事情赶快结束。

But he did not turn in to see her, he merely gave an order that the horse should be given to Voytov if he came while he was away.

但是他没有转到她这里来，他只吩咐了一声他不在的时候可以让沃伊托夫把马牵走。

Gone, too, must be the assumption that governments should merely get out of the way of markets.

政府就不应干预市场的假说肯定也已过时。

In fact, they were all merely fronts for the dark minions and their Anunnaki overlords.

而事实上，他们只是他们的主子阿努奇人前线的爪牙。

Much of this lost output is likely to be merely deferred, as those taking their holiday next week make up the lost time later in the year.

在损失的产出当中，有很大一部分可能只是被延后，因为本周休假的人们会在今年晚些时候把损失掉的工作时间给补上。

Was it a craving to be thought distinguished, a dread of being dull, or merely an effect of overfeeding?

是指望自己显得与众不同，是怕空气变得沉闷无味，还是只因吃得太饱的结果？

In some special situation, international law is often applied with domestic law to remedy of applying domestic merely.

在一些特定场合，国际法规则经常与国内法合并适用，弥补单独适用国内法的缺陷。

He used a biblical metaphor: you only need one King David, and an army of soldiers who merely had to be able to carry out orders.

他用了一个圣经的隐喻：「你只需要一个王者大卫，和一支只要能遵守秩序的军队」。

We should hesitate to admit this if it were merely a question of humdrum dwellers on this corner of the universe called Earth.

如果这仅仅是这个叫做地球的宇宙之中的角落里无聊居民的问题，我们在承认这一点时会犹豫不决。

You're merely throwing something against the wall to see if it sticks.

好比你将漫不经心地将东西向墙上扔，看它究竟是否会粘上。

Whether you think that this view is simply great secret or merely mediocre, you need this book!

无论你以为上述观点是惊天大秘还是不过尔尔，你都需要这本书！

If the artist merely the study of history, we can not be a real breakthrough in terms of the surface deep into the question of which to the.

如果艺术家仅仅停留在对历史的研究上，我们是无法真正突破词语的表层深入到问题的里面去的。