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《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You are merely making words," he said; "knowledge means everything to you.
-- Hermione merely paid no attention, stood with her shoulders tight in a shrug of dislike.
-- "Oh one would feel things instead of merely looking at them.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Merely the branch of a fir tree that touched my lattice as the blast wailed by, and rattled its dry cones against the panes!I listened doubtingly an instant; detected the disturber, then turned and dozed, and dreamt again: if possible, still more disagreeably than before.
-- Ah, I thought, there will be no saving him: he's doomed, and flies to his fate!And so it was: he turned abruptly, hastened into the house again, shut the door behind him; and when I went in a while after to inform them that Earnshaw had come home rabid drunk, ready to pull the whole place about our ears (his ordinary frame of mind in that condition), I saw the quarrel had merely effected a closer intimacy had broken the outworks of youthful timidity, and enabled them to forsake the disguise of friendship, and confess themselves lovers.
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