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 talked as if Dr. Watson were a resident instead of being merely a visitor,' said she.
-- I could merely see the outline, but his height told me that it was Barrymore.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The general considered that the girls' taste and good sense should be allowed to develop and mature deliberately, and that the parents' duty should merely be to keep watch, in or-der that no strange or undesirable choice be made; but that the selection once effected, both father and mother were bound from that moment to enter heart and soul into the cause, and to see that the matter progressed without hin-drance until the altar should be happily reached.
-- In their opinion, the latter's destiny was not merely to be very happy; she was to live in a heaven on earth.
-- General Epanchin took up his part and spoke in the character of father of a family; he spoke sensibly, and with-out wasting words over any attempt at sentimentality, he merely recorded his full admission of her right to be the arbiter of Totski's destiny at this moment.
-- If she accepted this money it was not to be considered as indem-nification for her misfortune as a young girl, which had not been in any degree her own fault, but merely as compensa-tion for her ruined life.
-- There were several rumours afloat, before long, which upset Totski's equanimity a good deal, but we will not now stop to describe them; merely mentioning an instance or two.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then it was merely an exclamation.
-- I suppose they saw merely a figure moving quietly and quickly away.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I found some of it hard to endure, though I am a mild-tem-pered man; but, certainly, when I told the captain to 'shut up' I had forgotten that I was merely a bit of human flotsam, cut off from my resources and with my fare unpaid; a mere casual dependant on the bounty, or speculative enterprise, of the ship.
-- This man, it seemed to me, had come out of Immensity merely to save my life.
-- These sickening scoundrels had merely intended to keep me back, to fool me with their display of confidence, and presently to fall upon me with a fate more horrible than death, with torture; and after torture the most hideous degradation it is possible to conceive, to send me off a lost soul, a beast, to the rest of their Comus rout.
-- If you wound the optic nerve, you merely see flashes of light, just as disease of the auditory nerve merely means a humming in our ears.
-- The incident seemed merely one more of many horrible things.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here we sit in a branchy row, Thinking of beautiful things we know; Dreaming of deeds that we mean to do, All complete, in a minute or two Something noble and wise and good, Done by merely wishing we could.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Giving them reason to believe he was merely employed in a consul-tation concerning the future route, he spurred his charger, and drew the reins again when the animal had carried him within a few yards of the place where the sullen runner still stood, leaning against the tree.
-- As major of the Sixtieth, our honest host will tell you I must take my share of the fray; but our task will be easy; it is merely to keep these blood-hounds at bay for a few hours.'
-- Further words were unnecessary; for Hawkeye, merely uttering the mandate to 'follow,' moved along the route by which they had just entered their present critical and even dangerous situation.
-- To all these sports and pursuits, those of the enemy who watched the besieged, and the besieged themselves, were, however, merely the idle though sympathizing spectators.
-- Cunningly resuming his former posi-tion, though with a change of hands, as if the movement had been made merely to relieve the limb, the native await-ed the result with a calmness and fortitude that none but an Indian warrior would have known how to exercise.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Be that as it may, I do not vouch for the fact, but merely advert to it, for the sake of being precise and authentic.
-- She was a booming lass of fresh eighteen; plump as a partridge; ripe and melting and rosy-cheeked as one of her father's peaches, and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but her vast expectations.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If, seized by an intolerable boredom, he had determined to be a painter merely to break with irksome ties, it would have been comprehensible, and commonplace; but commonplace is precisely what I felt he was not.
-- He merely thought it might be more convenient to you."
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