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：
-- It was not that she and Clifford were unpopular, they merely belonged to another species altogether from the colliers.
-- I'm merely a fellow skulking in the army...' Silence fell.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His theatrical air, as he stood with one arm on his hip within the folds of his cloak, together with his manner of disregarding his companion and addressing the opposite wall instead, seemed to intimate that he was rehearsing for the President, whose examination he was shortly to undergo, rather than troubling himself merely to enlighten so small a person as John Baptist Cavalletto.
-- It merely went to the effect that as they had all been thrown together by chance, and had all preserved a good understanding together, and were now about to disperse, and were not likely ever to find themselves all together again, what could they do better than bid farewell to one another, and give one another good-speed in a simultaneous glass of cool champagne all round the table?
-- 'I am merely passing on, like the shadow over the sun-dial.
-- He was not much to look at, either in point of size or in point of dress; being merely a short, square, practical looking man, whose hair had turned grey, and in whose face and forehead there were deep lines of cogitation, which looked as though they were carved in hard wood.
-- As to street noises, the rumbling of wheels in the lane merely rushed in at the gateway in going past, and rushed out again: making the listening Mistress Affery feel as if she were deaf, and recovered the sense of hearing by instantaneous flashes.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why should I complain, when we both have merely done our duty and will surely be the happier for it in the end?
-- My dear girls, I am ambitious for you, but not to have you make a dash in the world, marry rich men merely because they are rich, or have splendid houses, which are not homes because love is wanting.
-- 'I merely wish to say, that as a slight token of my grati-tude for the honor done me, and as a means of promoting friendly relations between adjoining nations, I have set up a post office in the hedge in the lower corner of the garden, a fine, spacious building with padlocks on the doors and ev-ery convenience for the mails, also the females, if I may be allowed the expression.
-- 'Oh, he was a little man who looked as if he merely lived to oil his hair.
-- Amy's chief delight was an Indian cabinet, full of queer drawers, little pigeonholes, and secret places, in which were kept all sorts of ornaments, some precious, some merely curious, all more or less an-tique.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The more so, I say, because truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast.
-- As Queequeg's Ramadan, or Fasting and Humiliation, was to continue all day, I did not choose to disturb him till towards night-fall; for I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, never mind how comical, and could not find it in my heart to undervalue even a congregation of ants worshipping a toad-stool; or those other creatures in certain parts of our earth, who with a degree of footmanism quite unprecedented in other planets, bow down before the torso of a deceased landed proprietor merely on account of the inordinate possessions yet owned and rented in his name.
-- It was merely the condensation of the man.
-- But all the witcheries of that unwaning weather did not merely lend new spells and potencies to the outward world.
-- No: the reason was this: that from the fatal experiences of the fishery there hung a terrible prestige of perilousness about such a whale as there did about Rinaldo Rinaldini, insomuch that most fishermen were content to recognise him by merely touching their tarpaulins when he would be discovered lounging by them on the sea, without seeking to cultivate a more intimate acquaintance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Sowerberry, who had a good deal of taste in the undertaking way, was much struck by the novelty of this idea; but, as it would have been compromising her dignity to have said so, under existing circumstances, she merely inquired, with much sharpness, why such an obvious suggestion had not presented itself to her husband's mind before?
-- The Dodger and Master Bates, unwilling to attract public attention by running down the open street, had merely retired into the very first doorway round the corner.
-- It is due to the young lady to say that she did not positively affirm that she would not, but that she merely expressed an emphatic and earnest desire to be 'blessed' if she would; a polite and delicate evasion of the request, which shows the young lady to have been possessed of that natural good breeding which cannot bear to inflict upon a fellow-creature, the pain of a direct and pointed refusal.
-- Bill Sikes merely pointed to the empty measure.
-- He merely returned their salutations with a wave of his hand, and relaxed not in his dignified pace, until he reached the farm where Mrs. Mann tended the infant paupers with parochial care.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sir William and Lady Lucas are determined to go, merely on that account, for in general, you know, they visit no newcomers.
-- His brother-in-law, Mr. Hurst, merely looked the gentleman; but his friend Mr. Darcy soon drew the atten-tion of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien, and the report which was in general circula-tion within five minutes after his entrance, of his having ten thousand a year.
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