merely是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adv. 仅仅， 只不过，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As his eyes rested on a short, slight, pretty fig-ure, a quantity of golden hair, a pair of blue eyes that met his 27own with an inquiring look, and a forehead with a singular capacity (remembering how young and smooth it was), of rifting and knitting itself into an expression that was not quite one of perplexity, or wonder, or alarm, or merely of a bright fixed attention, though it included all the four ex-pressions-as his eyes rested on these things, a sudden vivid likeness passed before him, of a child whom he had held in his arms on the passage across that very Channel, one cold time, when the hail drifted heavily and the sea ran high.
-- His wife explained that she had merely 'asked a bless-ing.'
-- He had known the last witness seven or eight years; that was merely a coincidence.
-- Monsieur the Marquis cast his eyes over the submissive faces that drooped before him, as the like of himself had drooped before Monseigneur of the Court only the differ-ence was, that these faces drooped merely to suffer and not to propitiate when a grizzled mender of the roads joined the group.
-- He abandoned that attempt on the first day, and resolved merely to keep himself always before him, as a si-lent protest against the delusion into which he had fallen, or was falling.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The seemingly dead body of the watchman wandered, as we have said, to the hospital, where it was brought into the general viewing-room: and the first thing that was done here was naturally to pull off the galoshes when the spirit, that was merely gone out on adventures, must have returned with the quickness of lightning to its earthly tenement.
-- Meanwhile he was haunted by the idea he should like to possess such a pair of spectacles himself; then, perhaps, by using them circumspectly, one would be able to look into people's hearts, which, he thought, would be far more in-teresting than merely to see what was to happen next year; for that we should all know in proper time, but the other never.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had even supposed that she, a worn-out woman no longer young or good-looking, and in no way remarkable or interesting, merely a good mother, ought from a sense of fairness to take an indulgent view.
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch made no reply, he merely glanced at Matvey in the looking-glass.
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch was not merely liked by all who knew him for his good humor, but for his bright disposition, and his unquestionable honesty.
-- Levin was almost of the same age as Oblonsky; their intimacy did not rest merely on champagne.
-- She merely sent a brief note to her brother to tell him that he must not fail to dine at home.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had expected to find not only the steamer, but his domestic, and was forced to give up both; but no sign of disappointment appeared on his face, and he merely remarked to Aouda, "It is an accident, madam; nothing more."
-- Once a man approached and spoke to him, and the detective merely replied by shaking his head.
-- Phileas Fogg had, without suspecting it, gained one day on his journey, and this merely because he had travelled constantly eastward; he would, on the contrary, have lost a day had he gone in the opposite direction, that is, westward.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The co-eds murmured that he "looked so romantic," but as this was before the invention of sex and the era of petting- parties, they merely talked about him at a distance, and he did not know that he could have been a hero of amours.
-- You MIGHT merely get anthrax boils--" The class shuddered.
-- "Probably not--and until some genius like yourself, Arrowsmith, can herd together a few hundred people with exactly identical cases of erysipelas, it probably never will be tried!Meanwhile I trust that you other gentlemen, who perhaps lack Mr. Arrowsmith's profound scientific attainments and the power to use such handy technical terms as 'control,' will, merely on my feeble advice, continue to use ichthyol!"
-- But as I have no desire to indulge in fancy flights of rhetoric and eloquence, I shall merely say that you will accept, and you will study, and you will memorize, because I tell you to!"
-- They "did advertisements"--guessed at tableaux representing advertising pictures; they danced to the phonograph; and they had not merely a lap-supper but little tables excessively covered with doilies.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That's all conventional, that's all relative, merely a way of looking at it,' he thought in a flash, but only on the top surface of his mind, while he was shuddering all over, 'there, I've got it on!I have finished by getting it on!'
-- There was a chain, too, merely wrapped in newspaper and something else in newspaper, that looked like a decoration芒聙娄.
-- Raskolnikov said nothing and made no resistance, though he felt quite strong enough to sit up on the sofa without support and could not merely have held a cup or a spoon, but even perhaps could have walked about.
-- 'Of course, people do get carried away and make mistakes, but one must have indulgence; those mis-takes are merely evidence of enthusiasm for the cause and of abnormal external environment.
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