mere
- adj. 仅仅，只不过；只凭……就足以
- n. <旧>小湖，池塘；（尤指毛利人用绿岩制的武器）石棒
- 【名】 （Mere）（日）目连，（西）梅雷（人名）
[ 复数 meres 最高级 merest ]
柯林斯英汉双解大词典
mere /mɪə/ CET4 TEM4
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ADJ You use mere to emphasize how unimportant or inadequate something is, in comparison to the general situation you are describing. 只不过 [ADJ n] [强调]
例：...successful exhibitions which go beyond mere success.
…不仅仅是成功，而是大获成功的展览。
例：There is more to good health than the mere absence of disease.
健康不仅仅指不生病，还包括更多。
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ADJ You use mere to indicate that a quality or action that is usually unimportant has a very important or strong effect. 单单的 (用来指某事虽小却有重要影响) [ADJ n]
例：The mere mention of food had triggered off hunger pangs.
单单提到食物就引起了阵阵的饥饿感。
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ADJ You use mere to emphasize how small a particular amount or number is. 只不过 (用于强调数量之少) ['a' ADJ amount] [强调]
例：Sixty percent of teachers are women, but a mere five percent of women are principals.
60％的教师是女性，但只有5％的女性是校长。
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4.
N a lake or marsh 湖; 沼泽 [archaic, DIALECT]
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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He seemed so young, a mere boy.
他看来那么年轻，只是个孩子。
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$1 000 is a mere trifle to her.
1 000元对她来说不过是区区小数。
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这个只花了一点钱。
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"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money;
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What may be most important here is the mere fact that Milton is expressing these political convictions at all.
这里最重要的不过是,弥尔顿只是在表达他的政治信念。
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Bishop's sandpiper poet, there in your handout, is obsessed with the mere details of experience, those sand grains, quartz grains.
毕肖普写鹬的那首诗，你们的讲稿上有，被零星的描写经验的细节所累，描写了那些谷物和石英岩。
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