查询词典 mere formality

This being the case, some theologians in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who inclined to Cartesianism, as E, Maignan, Drouin, and Vitasse, displayed but little theological penetration when they asserted that the Eucharistic appearances were optical illusions, phantasmagoria, and make-believe accidents, ascribing to Divine omnipotence an immediate influence upon the five senses, whereby a mere subjective impression of what seemed to be the accidents of bread and wine was created.

在这种情况下，一些神学家，在十七世纪和十八世纪，他们倾向于cartesianism ，随着电子商务，迈尼昂，乔，并vitasse ，展示，但很少神学渗透时，他们声称，圣体圣事的外表被光学的幻想， phantasmagoria ，化妆相信意外，指称，以神圣的全能的一个直接的影响后，五感，而只是主观的印象似乎是意外的面包和葡萄酒制造。

It is not a mere theoretical explanation, but is so replete with juridical and casuistical details that it may be called an inexhaustible fountain for manuals of casuistry.

它不仅仅是一个理论解释，但如此充满法人和诡辩的细节，它可被称为一个取之不尽的源泉手册的诡辩。

We saw that, in 431, it was possible for St. Vincent (in a book which has been most unreasonably taken to be a mere polemic against St. Augustine -- a notion which is amply refuted by the use made in it of St. Celestine's letter) to define the meaning and method of patristic appeals.

我们看到，在431名，有可能为圣文森（在一本书已采取的最不合理的仅仅是一个争论的圣奥古斯丁-这个概念是充分驳斥了使用了它的街巴巴亚罗的信）确定的含义和方法教父上诉。

But mere experience does not afford either the proof or the confirmation of our certitude concerning their truth.

但是，仅仅是经验不承担任何证据或确认我们确信有关其真相。

Tartuffe and Joseph Surface, Stigginsand Chadband,who are always preaching fine sen－timents and are no more virtuous than hundreds of those whom they denounce and whom they cheat,are fair objects of mistrust and satire; but theirhypocrisy,the homage,according to the old say-ing,which vice pays to virtue,has this of good init,that its fruits are good:a man may preach goodmorals tho he may be himself but a lax practition－er;a Pharisee may put pieces of gold into the char－ity-plate out of mere hypocrisy and ostentation,but the bad man's gold feeds the widow and the fa－therless as well as the good man's.

达尔杜弗之流不断谈论高尚情操，而其品德却不比他们所指斥、所欺骗的人高尚，这类人物自然不配受到人们信任，而应加以讥刺；可是，他们的伪善固然是一种市恩讨好的行径，却又如一句老话所说，邪恶也会化为善举，带来好的结果。一个人可能孜孜然劝人为善而自己全不实行；一个法利赛人可能出于伪善和炫耀的目的而在施舍盘里放上几块金子，但是坏人的金子和好人的金子一样都能养活孤儿寡妇。

We stand in awe of the centuried Redwoods of the Pacific coast and the twisted, giant Saguaros of the high desert, but compared to the Chaparral bush they are mere infants.

通常，一提起太平洋沿岸的古老的红杉和沙漠中扭曲高大的仙人掌人们往往会产生敬畏的感觉。然而与矮橡树灌木林相比，这些都是微不足道的。

This is something which has clearly got to Mourinho; the mere insinuation that his achievement with Chelsea can be accredited to the chequebook is something which doesn't sit well with him at all.

这是穆里尼奥很明显可以获得的东西；唯一的暗示就是他在切尔西的成功全都是建立在支票簿上，而这正是他所不具备的东西。

My husband – whose bonus is a mere couple of hundred pounds – spent it on Batman comics and sent them to a children's ward in New York, which I thought was a really nice touch.

我丈夫——他的奖金就几百英镑——花在蝙蝠侠漫画书上了，寄给了纽约儿童病房的孩子，我觉得真的很好。

Mere conformity to law as such (without assuming any particular law applicable to certain actions) serves as the principle of the will, and it must serve as such a principle if duty is not to be a vain delusion and chimerical concept

仅对规律本身的服从(不设想任何适用于某些行动的特殊规律)可充当意志的原则；如果责任不是无用的幻想和空泛的概念，对规律的服从也必须充当这样的原则。

It sounded as a small gasp at first, a mere chortle.

初时听起来像是一阵微弱的喘息，一声几不可闻的低笑。

For every one of my New Year resolutions, I have been a backslider for years.

说到我的新年决心，我每年都做

With empathy and focus on a feeling level, we can all relate to the common ground of mutuality of emotions.

有了同情心和感觉上一级的重点，我们都可以涉及到相互的情感共同点。