1.仅仅的；只不过used when you want to emphasize how small, unimportant, etc. sb/sth is
It took her a mere 20 minutes to win.她只花了 20 分钟就赢了。
A mere 2% of their budget has been spent on publicity.他们的预算开支只有 2% 用于宣传。
He seemed so young, a mere boy.他看来那么年轻，只是个孩子。
You've got the job. The interview will be a mere formality.你已经得到了这份工作。面试不过是个形式。
2.只凭…就足以used when you are saying that the fact that a particular thing is present in a situation is enough to have an influence on that situation
His mere presence(= just the fact that he was there) made her feel afraid.他当时在场，这就足以让她害怕了。
The mere fact that they were prepared to talk was encouraging.他们愿意商谈，这就很不错了。
The mere thought of eating made him feel sick.他一想到吃东西就觉得恶心。
The merest(= the slightest) hint of smoke is enough to make her feel ill.最细微的一丝烟就能使她感到不舒服。
1.小湖；池塘a small lake
If this had been a mere financial crisis, it would be over by now.
如果这仅仅是一场金融危机，那么到现在就该已经结束了。
Some hire people to be mere order-takers or cash register operators. But that's not what selling is all about.
有些商店请人来接受顾客购买或操作收银机。但那不是销售的全部。
Ts'ui Pen was a fine novelist but he was also a man of letters who, doubtless, considered himself more than a mere novelist.
彭寂是个天才的小说家，但也是一个文学家，他绝不会认为自己只是个写小说的。
The mere prospect of a deal seems to be forcing both sides to buck up their business, though.
然而，仅仅是这笔交易的可能性，似乎就正迫使双方加强自身业务。
But space is so great that the stars seem to us to be mere specks in the sky.
但是太空如此的广阔，对于我们，星星看起来仅仅是天空中的斑点。
A measure of that restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social value, more noble than mere monetary profits.
衡量这重建的尺度是我们体现比金钱利益更高尚的社会价值的程度。
The Delegation considered that the mere existence of an exclusive right to own IP did not necessarily mean anti-competitiveness.
该代表团认为，知识产权专有权的存在并不一定意味着反对竞争。
I first saw the Eskimo, and will, I suppose, always first see what I first saw there, as if the Indian was mere afterthought.
我第一眼看到爱斯基摩人，那么我猜每次再看到也会第一时间想起它，至于印第安人永远只能是事后烟。
To say the least, it was a big surprise to find out that sharks were being taken by an octopus - a mere invertebrate.
到最后，他们惊奇地发现鲨鱼被一只章鱼猎杀了–只是一只无脊椎动物。
Needless to say, the examples of borrowing from American quoted in the preceding pages are a mere fraction of what might be adduced.
不用说，前面所引的借自美国的词语的种种例子仅仅是可以引证的一小部分。
He said he spent a mere $150, 000 on his Iowa campaign, and a third of those who voted for him paid for their own tickets.
他说，他在艾奥瓦的选战中只花费了区区15万美元，有三分之一投他票的人是自己花钱买的入场券。
The spirit of the age tends to doom the lawyer to a narrow life of practice, the business man to a mere money-making career.
时代的精神注定要把律师限定在事务所的狭小天地里，而商人则成了纯粹的赚钱职业。
Sometimes it is mere coincidence that the application seems to work correctly even with bad memory errors close to the starting point.
有时一开始即使使用了错误的内存，应用程序似乎也能正常工作。
A mere reduction absenteeism does not provide solid evidence for the proposition that robots would be better than humans for factory work.
纯粹减少旷工现象不足以提供有力的证据，来证明机器人比人类能更好地从事工厂工作这一命题。
The mere mention of his name was enough to put the devotees of Davos and other such gatherings into a swoon.
仅仅提一下他的名字就足以使达沃斯和其他这样的集会的支持者高兴不已。
To work as an inducement, the food must be good: a mere dry biscuit is no longer sufficient to get a single bottom on to a single seat.
要起到引诱作用，食物必须美味：只供应干巴巴的饼干已不再足以吸引人落座了。
Before I could come to any conclusion it occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
还不等我决定是谈还是不谈，我就看出来了，说也罢，或者沉默也罢，我的任何其他行动都不过是徒劳。
If anyone lift the cloth from the face of that unpleasant thing it will be in gratification of a mere morbid curiosity.
如果谁将这个不悦的玩样儿脸上的布掀开，那它会因为一种病态的好奇而心感满足。
Another participant concurred, adding that this might help steer political parties towards policy formulation rather than mere opposition.
有嘉宾表示同意，并补充这建议将有利于引导政党多做政策制订工作，而不纯然作为反对派。
The reason his wife left him was that she couldn't bear being treated as a mere drudge.
他的妻子不堪忍受被当作苦工役使，因而离开了他。
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