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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She told herself thatthe child was merely full of life and there was still time in which to teach her the arts and graces of being attractive tomen.
-- She could think of nothing to say and so merely looked at him, wondering why menwere such fools as to think women interested in such matters.
-- The full tide of fury against those profiteering on government contracts had not yet risen, and Rhett's wordswere taken merely as evidence of his own bad breeding.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have never been absolutely certain whether I uttered a shrill yell of terror, merely in spirit, or in the bodily hearing of the company.
-- As it was, she merely stipulated, "If you bring the boy back with his head blown to bits by a musket, don't look to me to put it together again."
-- It being Saturday night, I found the landlord looking rather grimly at these records; but as my business was with Joe and not with him, I merely wished him good evening, and passed into the common room at the end of the passage, where there was a bright large kitchen fire, and where Joe was smoking his pipe in company with Mr. Wopsle and a stranger.
-- When we had come out again, and had got rid of the boys who had been put into great spirits by the expectation of seeing me publicly tortured, and who were much disappointed to find that my friends were merely rallying round me, we went back to Pumblechook's.
-- I drew Joe away, and he immediately became placable; merely stating to me, in an obliging manner and as a polite expostulatory notice to any one whom it might happen to concern, that he were not a going to be bull-baited and badgered in his own place.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he called his son and told him that he had only a false bride; for that she was merely a waiting-maid, while the true bride stood by.
-- The king was terrified; he threw himself on the soldier's mercy, and merely to be allowed to live at all, gave him his kingdom for his own, and his daughter to wife.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He advised great statesmen to examine into the diet of all suspected persons; their times of eating; upon which side they lay in bed; with which hand they wipe their posteriors; take a strict view of their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the consistence, the crude-ness or maturity of digestion, form a judgment of their thoughts and designs; because men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as when they are at stool, which he found by frequent experiment; for, in such conjunctures, when he used, merely as a trial, to consider which was the best way of murdering the king, his ordure would have a tincture of green; but quite different, when he thought only of raising an insurrection, or burning the metropolis.
-- y master was yet wholly at a loss to understand what Mmotives could incite this race of lawyers to perplex, disquiet, and weary themselves, and engage in a confed-eracy of injustice, merely for the sake of injuring their fellow-animals; neither could he comprehend what I meant in saying, they did it for hire.
-- The young couple meet, and are joined, merely because it is the determination of their parents and friends; it is what they see done every day, and they look upon it as one of the necessary actions of a reasonable be- 343ing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor was it merely the stranger who noticed this, because there was a native organization in Coketown itself, whose members were to be heard of in the House of Commons every session, indignantly petitioning for acts of parliament that should make these people religious by main force.
-- 'I hope, Bounderby,' said Mr. Gradgrind, in a conciliatory voice, 'that this was merely an oversight.'
-- 'My friend Tom Gradgrind suggests, Mrs. Sparsit,' said Bounderby, 'that this was merely an oversight.
-- Therefore, perhaps the expression itself I merely suggest this to you, my dear may be a little misplaced.'
-- I merely wished to discharge my duty.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To him a voyage to Iceland was merely a matter of course.
-- It was merely the house of a peasant, but in the matter of hospitality, it was worthy of being the palace of a king.
-- He merely shook his head.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For she only had to hold herself back in sexual intercourse, and let him fin-ish and expend himself without herself coming to the crisis: and then she could prolong the connexion and achieve her orgasm and her crisis while he was merely her tool.
-- And sex was merely an accident, or an adjunct, one of the curious obsolete, or-ganic processes which persisted in its own clumsiness, but was not really necessary.
-- The colliers merely stared; the tradesmen lifted their caps to Connie as to an acquaintance, and nodded awkwardly to Clifford; that was all.
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