Mere

(noun.) a small pond of standing water.

(adj.) being nothing more than specified; 'a mere child' .

埃德娜校对

• What I mean is, Lizzie, that I am a mere impertinent piece of conceit, and you shame me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• And education is not a mere means to such a life. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• It isn't a mere pleasure trip to me, girls, she said impressively, as she scraped her best palette. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• A mere habit in me, sir. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I reassured him on this point, and, as well as I could, I showed him the mere outline of my experience. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Mr. Jobling is buttoned up closer than mere adornment might require. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• What you want me to serve, is nothing, mere nothing. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• As mere school studies, their acquisition has only a technical worth. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• As for Betteredge, consistency of principle and dignity of conduct had become, in his case, mere empty words. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• There is mere spatial redistribution. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• If the atmosphere were composed of oxygen alone, the merest flicker of a match would set the whole world ablaze. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Tall and muscular as I was in form, I must have looked like, what indeed I was, the merest ruffian that ever trod the earth. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• What is to me a means of livelihood is to him the merest hobby of a dilettante. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• At last, I discovered by the merest accident that this man had a wife, to whom he had been married four years, as well as three fine young children. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• My dear Laura, the merest trifles are of importance where Anne Catherick is concerned. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• If he is picked up by the Cretan steamer, and his yacht is now lying at Syra, I have no doubt he will; but it is all the merest chance. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Our minds embrace infinity; the visible mechanism of our being is subject to merest accident. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I had no idea of the lengths to which this would carry him, until the merest accident opened my eyes to it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• The merest awkward country girl, without style, or elegance, and almost without beauty. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• For it was indeed that most respectable saloon, in which Prude and I were making an exhibition of our pretty persons, owing to the merest ignorance. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.

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