- Mere means pure and simple, nothing more and nothing less. If the mere mention of someone's name makes you happy, then just hearing his name — and that alone — is enough to make you smile.
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- adj. 仅仅的；只不过的
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1. It took her a mere 20 minutes to win.
她只花了 20 分钟就赢了。
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2. A mere 2% of their budget has been spent on publicity.
他们的预算开支只有 2% 用于宣传。
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3. He seemed so young, a mere boy.
他看来那么年轻，只是个孩子。
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4. You've got the job. The interview will be a mere formality.
你已经得到了这份工作。面试不过是个形式。
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5. The mere thought ofeating made him feel sick.
他一想到吃东西就觉得恶心。
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6. The merest hint of smoke is enough to make her feel ill.
最细微的(= the slightest)一丝烟就能使她感到不舒服。
- mere (adj.) c. 1400, "unmixed, pure," from Old French mier "pure" (of gold), "entire, total, complete," and directly from Latin merus "unmixed" (of wine), "pure; bare, naked;" figuratively "true, real, genuine," probably originally "clear, bright," from PIE *mer- "to gleam, glimmer, sparkle" (source also of Old English amerian "to purify," Old Irish emer "not clear," Sanskrit maricih "ray, beam," Greek marmarein "to gleam, glimmer"). Original sense of "nothing less than, absolute" (mid-15c., now only in vestiges such as mere folly) existed for centuries alongside opposite sense of "nothing more than" (1580s, as in a mere dream).
- mere (n.) Old English mere "sea, ocean; lake, pool, pond, cistern," from Proto-Germanic *mari (source also of Old Norse marr, Old Saxon meri "sea," Middle Dutch maer, Dutch meer "lake, sea, pool," Old High German mari, German Meer "sea," Gothic marei "sea," mari-saiws "lake"), from PIE root *mori- "body of water."
mere ★ / mɪə(r) ; NAmE mɪr / adjective , noun mere meres merest adjective ★ [only before noun ] ( superlative mer·est no comparative ) 1 ★ used when you want to emphasize how small, unimportant, etc. sb/sth is 仅仅的；只不过 ◆ It took her a mere 20 minutes to win. 她只花了 20 分钟就赢了。 ◆ A mere 2% of their budget has been spent on publicity. 他们的预算开支只有 2% 用于宣传。 ◆ He seemed so young, a mere boy. 他看来那么年轻，只是个孩子。 ◆ You've got the job. The interview will be a mere formality. 你已经得到了这份工作。面试不过是个形式。 2 used when you are saying that the fact that a particular thing is present in a situation is enough to have an influence on that situation 只凭…就足以 ◆ His mere presence (= just the fact that he was there)made her feel afraid. 他当时在场，这就足以让她害怕了。 ◆ The mere fact thatthey were prepared to talk was encouraging. 他们愿意商谈，这就很不错了。 ◆ The mere thought ofeating made him feel sick. 他一想到吃东西就觉得恶心。 ◆ The merest (= the slightest)hint of smoke is enough to make her feel ill. 最细微的一丝烟就能使她感到不舒服。 noun BrE literary also used in names 也用于名称 a small lake 小湖；池塘 mere / mɪə(r) ; NAmE mɪr /
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