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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No," replied Paganel, "I'll merely ask a question for Captain John to answer."
-- When they reached the wagon, Glenarvan merely mentioned to Lady Helena that there had been a railway accident, without a hint of the crime that had played so great a part in it; neither did he make mention of the presence of a band of convicts in the neighborhood, reserving that piece of information solely for Ayrton's ear.
-- He merely observed that regular communication existed between that point and Great Britain, and that it was easy to take advantage of it.
-- A slight mechanical change would produce a crater of eruption in these slopes, which consisted merely of whitish silicious tufa.
-- It merely means southern countries."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I presume, sir,' said he at last, 'that it was not merely for the purpose of examining my skull that you have done me the honour to call here last night and again to-day?'
-- A devil with merely local powers like a parish vestry would be too inconceivable a thing.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had she merely DINED with him, she might only have discovered whether he had a good appetite; but you must remember that four evenings have also been spent together and four evenings may do a great deal.'
-- Allowing the case, however, to stand according to your representa-tion, you must remember, Miss Bennet, that the friend who is supposed to desire his return to the house, and the delay of his plan, has merely desired it, asked it without offering one argument in favour of its propriety.'
-- She could not win him, however, to any conversation; he merely answered her ques-tion, and read on.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I was merely thoughtless of a God or a Providence, acted like a mere brute, from the principles of nature, and by the dic-tates of common sense only, and, indeed, hardly that.
-- When this had agitated my thoughts for two hours or more, with such violence that it set my very blood into a fer-ment, and my pulse beat as if I had been in a fever, merely with the extraordinary fervour of my mind about it, Na-ture - as if I had been fatigued and exhausted with the very thoughts of it - threw me into a sound sleep.
-- Na-ture assisted all my arguments to evidence to him even the necessity of a great First Cause, an overruling, governing Power, a secret directing Providence, and of the equity and justice of paying homage to Him that made us, and the like; but there appeared nothing of this kind in the notion of an evil spirit, of his origin, his being, his nature, and above all, of his inclination to do evil, and to draw us in to do so too; and the poor creature puzzled me once in such a manner, by a question merely natural and innocent, that I scarce knew what to say to him.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The constant attention of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to his wishes, which proceeded not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart, gave him every degree of solid comfort which his age could receive; and the cheerfulness of the children added a relish to his existence.
-- He understood that she was in need of a dwelling; and though the house he now offered her was merely a cottage, he assured her that everything should be done to it which she might think necessary, if the situation pleased her.
-- But I must object to your dooming Colonel Brandon and his wife to the constant confinement of a sick chamber, merely because he chanced to complain yesterday (a very cold damp day) of a slight rheumatic feel in one of his shoulders."
-- But Marianne abhorred all concealment where no real disgrace could attend unreserve; and to aim at the restraint of sentiments which were not in themselves illaudable, appeared to her not merely an unnecessary effort, but a disgraceful subjection of reason to common-place and mistaken notions.
-- It came from town, and is merely a letter of business."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Carrie had returned home, flushed with her first success and ready, for all her weariness, to discuss the now interesting events which led up to her achievement, the former had merely smiled approvingly and inquired whether she would have to spend any of it for car fare.
-- She sat meditating, merely shaking her head.
-- "Now, bless me," says such a mind, "I have done my duty," when, as a matter of fact, it has merely done its old, unbreakable trick once again.
-- He was merely floating those gossamer threads of thought which, like the spider's, he hoped would lay hold somewhere.
-- "I'm merely asking you for a season ticket."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As we was passing through the setting-room the old man he took up his hat, and the shingle-nail fell out on the floor, and he just merely picked it up and laid it on the mantel-shelf, and never said nothing, and went out.
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