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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her gloves, as Razumihin noticed, were not merely shabby but had holes in them, and yet this evident poverty gave the two ladies an air of special dignity, which is always found in people who know how to wear poor clothes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were sitting as before, one evening (when my mother was outas before), in company with the stocking and the yard measure,and the bit of wax, and the box with Saint Paul's on the lid, and thecrocodile book, when Peggotty, after looking at me several times,and opening her mouth as if she were going to speak, withoutdoing it- which I thought was merely gaping, or I should havebeen rather alarmed- said coaxingly'Master Davy, how should youlike to go along with me and spend a fortnight at my brother's atYarmouth?
-- I think I had someglimpses of the real character of this conversation at the time; but Iam sure, now, that the good creature originated it, and took herpart in it, merely that my mother might comfort herself with thelittle contradictory summary in which she had indulged.
-- says Mr. Chillip, MissMurdstone merely answers with a frown and a formal bend; Mr.Chillip, discomfited, goes into a corner, keeping me with him, andopens his mouth no more.
-- 'Merely this, Miss Trotwood,' he returned.
-- But he merely askedme what I thought of her.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer for, depend upon it a lucky guess is never merely luck.
-- what a bloom of full health, and such a pretty height and size; such a firm and upright figure!There is health, not merely in her bloom, but in her air, her head, her glance.
-- There were not merely no grammatical errors, but as a composition it would not have disgraced a gentleman; the language, though plain, was strong and unaffected, and the sentiments it conveyed very much to the credit of the writer.
-- A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.'
-- I should be as ready to ac-knowledge his merits as any other man; but I hear of none, 182 Emmaexcept what are merely personal; that he is well-grown and good-looking, with smooth, plausible manners.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Since then the appellation which I had thought to reserve to the horizons and landscapes of a merely realistic dream-country, has become more and more popular as a practical definition; and the dream-country has, by degrees, solidified into a utilitarian region which people can go to, take a house in, and write to the papers from.
-- Yet she was not a shy girl by any means; it was merely her instinct to draw the line dividing the seen from the unseen higher than they do it in towns.
-- (Calling one's self merely Somebody, without giving a name, is not to be taken as an example of the ill-breeding of the rural world: it springs from a refined modesty, of which townspeople, with their cards and announcements, have no notion whatever.)
-- It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness, but they possibly did with Oak to-night, for the delight of merely seeing her effaced for the time his perception of the great difference between seeing and possessing.
-- Liddy chose a position at her elbow and began to sew, sometimes pausing and looking round, or, with the air of a privileged person, taking up one of the half-sovereigns lying before her and surveying it merely as a work of art, while strictly preventing her countenance from expressing any wish to possess it as money.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had she been a second-hand clothes dealer, a frequenter of the backstairs of great houses, or had she been merely a courtesan?
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If your wish is to become really a man of science and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise you to apply to every branch of natural philosophy, including mathematics.'
-- Darkness had no effect upon my fancy, and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.
-- I read merely to understand their meaning, and they well repaid my labours.
-- 76 FrankensteinChapter 7 n my return, I found the following letter from my Ofather: 'My dear Victor, 'You have probably waited impatiently for a letter to fix the date of your return to us; and I was at first tempted to write only a few lines, merely mentioning the day on which I should expect you.
-- As it was, I merely remarked that they spoke English, and I therefore addressed them in that language.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So still was her face as she staredat Stuart that he, never analytic, took it for granted that she was merely surprised and very interested.
-- It was merely a quaint custom of the County that daughters only married into families who hadlived in the South much longer than twenty-two years, had owned land and slaves and been addicted only to thefashionable vices during that time.
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