英 [mɪə(r)] 美 [mɪr]
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
mere /mɪə/ CET4 TEM4
形容词 You use mere to emphasize how unimportant or inadequate something is, in comparison to the general situation you are describing. 只不过
...successful exhibitions which go beyond mere success.
…不仅仅是成功，而是大获成功的展览。
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。
形容词 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)
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。
形容词 You use mere to emphasize how small a particular amount or number is. 只不过 (用于强调数量之少)
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。
名词 a lake or marsh 湖; 沼泽
独立完成的
池
纯粹的
仅仅的
节
体节;湖
池塘
... stock 库存的;现有的;常备的 mere 仅仅的,只不过的 moral 道德(上)的 ...
... depend vi.依靠,依赖;相信;决定于,视情况而定 mere adj.仅仅的,只不过的;纯粹的 merely adv.仅仅,只不过 ...
... menace威胁，威吓；威胁性言行，具有危害性的人v。威胁，威吓，使遭受危险 mere只不过的，仅仅的 merely仅仅，只，不过 ...
1651年夏天,法国数学兼物理学家 巴斯卡 (Pascal, 1623-1662)在旅行途中,偶然遇到一位叫梅雷(Mere)的贵族,他是一位 ..
merely 仅仅，只不过；只是
He seemed so young, a mere boy.
他看来那么年轻，只是个孩子。
$1 000 is a mere trifle to her.
1 000元对她来说不过是区区小数。
It cost a mere bagatelle.
这个只花了一点钱。
"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money;
VOA : special.2011.03.17
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。
弥尔顿课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
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。
现代诗歌课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
On the final run, he edged out the Canadian sled driven by Lyndon Rush by a mere 0.01 of a second.
VOA : standard.2010.02.28
"This is not a mere suspicion or speculation, some concrete indications of this possibly have been received."
VOA : standard.2009.09.25
Still, the mere threat of a jackpot award makes defendants (or their insurers) eager to settle.
Sepang Goldcoast is a mere 30-minute drive from the airport and just over an hour from the capital.
This portfolio appears to be the product of a grand strategy, but McCaw attributes it to mere happenstance.