| 词汇 | mere |
| 释义 | mere adjective[ before noun ] uk /mɪər/ us /mɪr/ B2 used to emphasize that something is not large or important: （用于强调不大，不重要或效果不大）只不过的，仅仅的 The plane crashed mere minutes after take-off.飞机起飞后仅几分钟就坠毁了。 It cost a mere 20 dollars.那只需花费20美元。 used to emphasize how strongly someone feels about something or how extreme a situation is: （用于强调感受强烈或极为重要）仅仅地 The mere thought of it (= just thinking about it) makes me feel sick.一想起它就让我不舒服。 People became excited at the mere mention of his name.一提到他的名字人们就激动起来。 the mere idea/possibility/prospect of something只要一提这样的想法／可能性／前景 It took a mere five minutes for the world champion to dispose of his opponent. His tumultuous triumph five years ago now seems a mere footnote in history. The committee is a mere appendage of the council and has no power of its own.这个委员会只是政务会的一个附属机构，本身没有任何权力。 She had that indefinable something that went beyond mere sex appeal.她具有某种说不清的气质，不只是性感。 A thousand pounds is a mere bagatelle to him.1000英镑对他来说根本不算什么。 The mere possibility of a tax increase was enough to enrage him. Is it really possible that the mere presence of certain actors can doom a TV show? Of little or less importance be in/under someone's shadowidiom be neither here nor thereidiom big deal biggie derisory marginal meaningless meaninglessly meaninglessness merely picture piddling piddly piffling play second fiddleidiom unserious unseriousness venial vestigial vestigially You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Merely and barely Strong feelings Linguistics: intensifying expressions mere | American Dictionarymere adjective[ not gradable ] us/mɪər/ nothing more than; nothing more important than: The mere fact that Greene plays for the Yankees gives him a lot of visibility. The city receives a mere 20% of the parking revenues. Examples of meremere The skill of the orchestration is such that the closing fanfare, that makes the loudest noise in the score, involves a mere 12 players. Mere preferences independent of evaluation are excluded, although they provide goals in the ordinary sense. If there were no sons in the house and the heir was the eldest daughter, the marriage resulted, theoretically, in a mere reversal of roles. Thus, instead of being a mere system description, an appropriately constructed dynamic model can greatly facilitate and guide the control design. The most abstract way to describe regularities of the physical world that are reflected in the visual system consists in pointing out mere statistical relationships. Following this interpretation, it may be dangerous to reject the variant reading 66° as a mere corruption. In a series of transactions that may have taken a matter of mere days, the price per card had climbed by 400 per cent. The moral significance of the intending-foreseeing distinction requires more than the mere functional role of intention and foresight. The last paragraph of the note had more than mere formal significance. But mere possession without a credible threat of releasing the agents will not provide the feelings of power or security. One of the clear conclusions that emerges from this study is that spelling development is not a mere technical skill of phoneme to grapheme conversion. Transcending the mere extension of the senses, technology simply discloses a 'way of revealing'. Together they emancipated the art of experiment from being a mere craft activity and endowed it with the status of a science. But electronic technology goes beyond mere illustration and cataloguing. Speculative farmers hope for the occasional extraordinary profits but are deemed mere growers of necessary food. See all examples of mere These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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