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单词 merely
释义
merely
adverb
uk
/ˈmɪə.li/us
/ˈmɪr.li/

merelyadverb(ONLY)

B2
used toemphasizethat youmeanexactlywhat you are saying and nothing more:
（用于强调所说的即为所想表达的）仅仅，只，不过
I wasn'tcomplaining, I merelysaidthat I wastired.我不是抱怨，我只不过是说我累了。
I didn't say that you had to go - I merelysuggestedthat you mightwantto go.我不是说你必须去，我只是说你也许会想去。
More examples
  • The minister'sspeechhad merelyfoggedtheissue.
  • He called the newbuildingunoriginaland said that it merelyapedtheclassicaltraditions.
  • She didn'treply- she merelysmiledthatinsinuatingsmile.
  • Of hisoriginshe said very little, merelymentioninginparenthesisthat hisbackgroundwaspoor.
  • Patriarchy has notdisappeared- it has merelychangedform.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Merely and barely
  • all
  • all ofsomethingidiom
  • at a pinchidiom
  • barely
  • but
  • by a whiskeridiom
  • by inchesidiom
  • hardly
  • ill
  • inch
  • just
  • merest
  • narrowly
  • nothing
  • nothing more thanidiom
  • only
  • pinch
  • scarce
  • scarcely
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merelyadverb(NOT LARGE/IMPORTANT)

C2
used toemphasizethat something is notlarge,important, oreffectivewhencomparedto somethingelse:
（用于强调不大，不重要或效果不大）仅仅，只，不过
Themedicinewon'tcureher - it merelystopsthepain.这种药物不会治愈她的疾病，不过是止痛而已。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Of little or less importance
  • be in/undersomeone'sshadowidiom
  • be neither here nor thereidiom
  • be no big dealidiom
  • biggie
  • derisory
  • lowly
  • meaningless
  • meaninglessly
  • meaninglessness
  • mere
  • minor
  • peripheral
  • petty
  • piffling
  • play second fiddleidiom
  • poxy
  • rinky-dink
  • secondarily
  • subordinate
  • valueless
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Merely and barely
(Definition ofmerelyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

merely| American Dictionary

merely
adverb[not gradable]
us
/ˈmɪər·li/
only; and nothing more:
I merely said that I wastired.
Thesecolumnshave nofunctionand are merelydecorative.
(Definition ofmerelyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmerely

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Accordingly, we cannot assume linear effects of changemerelyon the basis of the particular choices of tools that have been made in these countries.
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Printers at this time did not bind books, theymerelysupplied loose quires which the stationers or the owner could bind themselves.
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In this case the expectant void ismerelyan extension of the roadie cabaret.
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In examining the effects of negative input, it is not sufficientmerelyto examine improvements in the grammaticality of child speech.
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Neither are children actually exposed tomerelystrings.
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If the gravamen of offense ismerelythat the conduct displeases many people, then it is not clear that wrongdoing has occurred at all.
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She might say that he ismerelyexcused.
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Tiebreaking r ulesmerelychange the location of the indeterminacy.
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They must experience the obligations as personal, as linking each member to each other member, not as linking each membermerelyto the center.
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Wemerelypoint out that strong bias is neither necessary nor sufficient for low sample complexity.
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Conversely, the interpretation of a suppressed subject can be generalized so that it acquires an ' indefinite agentive ' or evenmerely' indefinite ' meaning.
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They do notmerelyrecord frequency; they categorize frequently occurring patterns, abstract, and generalize from them.
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The communal virus is notmerelyviewed in the context of power politics.
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There is, they think, a problem about the way in which we connect human agency with embodiment ; and the problem furthermore is notmerelytheoretical.
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In sum, literal representationism is nonexplanatory, and as-if representationism ismerelyillustrative with respect to basic individual cognition.
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