2.
ADV
只不过，仅仅(用于强调数量之小) You use merely to emphasize that a particular amount or quantity is very small.
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The brain accounts for merely three per cent of body weight.
大脑仅占体重的3%。
3.
PHRASE
不仅仅 You use not merely before the less important of two contrasting statements, as a way of emphasizing the more important statement.
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The team needs players who want to play cricket for England, not merely any country that will have them...
球队需要的是想为英格兰而战的板球选手，而不是愿为任何国家打球的选手。
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His were not merely crimes of theft but of violence against elderly people.
他所犯的不止是偷窃罪，而是针对老年人的暴力犯罪。
- Adverb
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1. and nothing more;
- 1. A tiny insect, trying to shake a mighty tree, is ludicrously ignorant of its own weakness.; like ants trying to shake a huge tree, ridiculously overrating themselves; They were merely like ants trying to shake a giant tree. How they overrated themselves!
- 蚍蜉撼大树，可笑不自量。
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- 2. Certainly, no all-round knowledge can be acquired merely by glancing this way and that and relying on hearsay.
- 东张西望，道听途说，绝然得不到什么完全的知识。
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- 3. Do you really want to go or are you merely being amiable?
- 你是真的想去呢，还是仅仅为了表示友好？
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- 4. Don't strive merely for quantity of production.
- 在生产中不要单纯地追求数量。
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- 5. Giving these events a lot of media coverage merely perpetuates the problem.
- 媒体大量地报道这些事件只会使问题持续下去。
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- 6. He merely said,"H'm", and went away.
- 他嗯了一声，就走了。
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- 7. He regarded his marriage merely as a means to an end.
- 他仅把结婚当作达到目的的手段。
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- 8. He said that the new building merely aped the classical traditions.
- 他说那栋新建筑只是模仿古典传统。
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- 9. He was merely paying lip service.
- 他那番话不过是表面文章。
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- 10. He's not stupid, merely ignorant.
- 他并不愚蠢，只是无知。
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- 11. Her denials of this charge served merely to lend it credence.
- 她对这一指控的矢口否认，反倒更使人相信这一指控是真的。
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- 12. Her illness is merely a device to avoid seeing him.
- 她所谓生病只不过是避免见他的花招而已。
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- 13. Her refusal was merely a deliberate gesture.
- 她的拒绝只是故作姿态。
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- 14. His brave words are merely a pose.
- 他的勇敢的言词仅仅是做样子而已。
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- 15. His resignation was merely a gesture.
- 他的辞职只是一种姿态而已。
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- 16. I am merely reporting what he said.
- 我只是转述他的话。
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- 17. I didn't mean to answer back,I merely meant to say that you had been misinformed.
- 我并不想跟你顶嘴，我只是想说你听到的话是搞错了。
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- 18. I don't believe it; it's merely hearsay.
- 我不相信，那仅是谣传罢了。
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- 19. I merely asked his name.
- 我只不过问问他的名字。
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- 20. I merely glanced over his letter.
- 他的信我只是马马虎虎地看了一下。
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