mere
英 [m??]
美[m?r]
- adj. 僅僅的；只不過的
- n. 小湖；池塘
- n. (Mere)人名；(日)目連(姓)；(西)梅雷
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詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?meres;最高級:?merest;
中文詞源
mere 純粹的，僅僅，只不過
來自拉丁語merus,明亮的，純的，不摻假的，來自PIE*mer,發(fā)光，照耀，詞源同morning.引申詞義純粹的，后用于副詞僅僅，只不過。比較very,just.
mere 湖，池塘來自mere,海，湖，池塘，來自Proto-Germanic*mari,海，來自PIE*mori,海，湖泊，詞源同mare,marsh.后用于指湖，池塘。
英文詞源
- mere
- mere: see mermaid
- 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" (cognates: 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 (cognates: 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 *mori- "sea" (cognates: Latin mare, Old Church Slavonic morje, Russian more, Lithuanian mares, Old Irish muir, Welsh mor "sea," Gaulish Are-morici "people living near the sea").
雙語例句
- 1. The mere mention of John had touched a very raw nerve indeed.
- 提到約翰就真的讓人心痛。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The mere mention of food had triggered off hunger pangs.
- 單單提到食物就引起了陣陣饑餓感。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. He's a mere slip of a lad compared to his brother.
- 跟他哥哥一比，他不過是個小毛孩。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. It is too early to say whether the threats are mere sabre-rattling.
- 現(xiàn)在斷言這些威脅是否只是虛張聲勢還為時過早。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Is his promotion evidence of the minorities' advance, or mere tokenism?
- 他的晉升是證明了少數(shù)族裔的進步，還是僅僅為了裝點門面？
來自柯林斯例句