When public opinion is particularly polarised, as it was following the end of the Franco regime, monarchs can rise above "mere" politics and "embody" a spirit of national unity.
当公众舆论两极分化时，就像佛朗哥政权结束后那样，君主可以超越“纯粹的”政治，成为国家统一的精神“象征”。
It took her a mere 20 minutes to dispose of her opponent.
她仅用了20分钟就击败了对手。
He greeted us with a mere twitch of his head.
他只晃了一下头算是和我们打过招呼。
He flung himself down in the flat submissive posture of a mere supplicant.
他猛地趴在地上，做出一个卑微的哀求者那谦卑的姿态。
Without them, we would be a mere alliance of many separate parts.
没有他们，我们将只是单纯地把许多独立的部分拼凑在一起罢了。
A mere seven minutes later, when cascading ice finally came to a stop ten miles down the mountain, it had taken the lives of 4,000 people.
仅仅7分钟后，当倾泻而下的冰终于在山下10英里处停住时，它已经夺走了4000人的生命。
The mere existence of such a civilisation will tell us that long-term survival is possible, and gives us some cause for optimism.
这样一种文明的存在本身就会告诉我们，长期生存是可能的，并给我们一些乐观的理由。
"The fact that participants were willing to substitute part of a food item for the mere prospect of a relatively small monetary award is interesting," says Reimann.
“参与者愿意用食物的一部分，来换取得到相对较小金钱奖励的可能性，这一点很有意思。”赖曼说。
A mere reminder of Mom's touch or the sound of her voice on the phone is enough to change people's minds and moods, affecting their decision making in measurable ways.
哪怕仅仅是想起母亲的亲抚，或是听到电话里母亲的声音，都足以改变一个人的想法和情绪，对他们的决策产生重大影响。
The mere rhythmic drone of a photocopier or the rumble from a hairdryer is enough to set her off.
复印机发出的有节奏的嗡嗡声或吹风机发出的隆隆声就足以使她发火。
He dismisses a lot of the work of re-engineering consultants as mere rubbish.
他认为再造顾问的工作完全是垃圾。
So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token, the second was reluctant to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber.
因此，当一只猴子用一颗葡萄来换回她的一个筹码时，另一只猴子不愿意用一颗葡萄换回一片黄瓜。
Indeed, the mere presence of a grape in the other chamber (without an actual monkey to eat it) was enough to induce resentment in a female capuchin.
事实上，只要葡萄出现在其它房间里（不用有猴子真的去吃），就足以引起一只雌性卷尾猴的愤恨。
That is largely a matter of mere nuisance.
这在很大程度上不过是件麻烦事。
Two of the authors of the review also made a study published in 2014 which showed a mere five to ten minutes a day of running reduced the risk of heart disease and early deaths from all causes.
这篇评论文章的两位作者还在2014年发表了一项研究，研究表明，每天跑步仅仅5到10分钟，就可以降低患心脏病的风险，以及因各种原因早逝的风险。
No historical phenomenon is a mere repetition of the past.
任何历史现象都不会是简单的重复。
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。
He is only a bare name, a mere caput mortuum of abstracting understanding.
他只是一个徒有其名的人，仅是抽象理智的一个单纯的死躯壳。
Here is a mere sampling, a portion of a spiritual action plan for my next 50 years.
此处只是一个取样，只是我未来50年应采取的属灵行动的一小部分。
With a mere five lines of code, I have a workable testing stub.
只使用了五行代码，我就有了一个可工作的存根。
That was a mere fragment of the vast throng that gathered in the same place four years ago.
这同四年前同一地点民众聚集的巨大规模相比，实在不值一提。
Still, that is largely a matter of mere nuisance.
但是，大部分还是一件纯粹的麻烦事。
Wanted, a lawyer, who has not become the victim of his specialty, a mere walking bundle of precedents.
招聘一个尚未沦为其专业的牺牲品、形同一捆会走路的判例的律师。
Tess Durbeyfield at this time of her life was a mere vessel of emotion untinctured by experience.
苔丝·德北菲尔德在她人生的这个时候，满腔的纯情还没有带上人生的经验。
No pollster bothered to ask if people approved of such matches until 1958, when a mere 4% of white Americans said they did.
直到1958年，民意调查才涉及人们是否赞成黑人和白人通婚的问题，当时只有4%的美国白人赞同。
From this distance, oceans, land, clouds, and ice blend into a blur of light, a mere dot against the vastness of space.
在这个距离上，海洋、陆地、白云和冰雪全部被融入一个光斑之中，只是浩瀚的宇宙中的一个小光点而已。
Better yet, a kernel splice interrupts normal system operation for a mere fraction of a millisecond, leaving daemons, processes, and connections intact.
更棒的是，内核拼接只会中断正常系统操作不到一毫秒，守护进程、进程和连接都保持不变。
Instead of being known as a mere aggregator of research results, Miller found himself identified as a kind of sage - a discoverer of a profound truth about human nature.
米勒发现，自己不是作为一种纯粹的研究成果集大成者而知名，而是被确定为某种圣人——一个关于人类本性深刻道理的发现者。
The notion that dangerous climate change can be averted for a mere 1% of global GDP depends on policy being efficient.
仅花费全球GDP的1%就可以避免危险的气候变化，这个理念的基础是政策必须有效；
The notion that dangerous climate change can be averted for a mere 1% of global GDP depends on policy being efficient.
仅花费全球GDP的1%就可以避免危险的气候变化，这个理念的基础是政策必须有效；
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