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I thought it was a mere on dit .

我以为那只是谣传。

Deftly deploying the documentarian's tools -- old photographs and film, celebrity commentators, evocative music -- Grubin does an admirable job at a manifestly hopeless task: telling the Jews' story comprehensively in a mere six hours (tonight and each succeeding Wednesday on PBS ).

巧妙部署文献资料的工具-旧照片和电影，名人，评论家，同时让人联想到音乐-格鲁宾确实令人钦佩的工作处于明显无望的任务：告诉犹太人的故事，全面，在短短6个小时（今晚每个接替周三上的P B S）。

I am not the doer; I am a mere instrument in His hand.

我不是个行为者，仅仅是他手上的器具。

Thus, the absurd is not, to begin with, the object of a mere idea; it is revealed to us in a doleful illumination.

藉此，从一开始荒谬就并非是纯粹的概念上的存在，而是在那阴森的具象中向我们展现的。

It took a mere twenty-year of time to double the limit again.

仅仅二十年弹指一挥间，此速度又快了一倍。

It took a mere twenty-year flick of time to double the limit again.

后来，仅用了二十年的瞬息时间，就使这个速度又翻了一番。

The drenching took a mere one hour to accomplish and then it was time again for that long trip home.

给灌药只花费一小时就能够完成，然后再次到了长途跋涉回家的时间。

The reason his wife left him was that she couldn't bear being treated as a mere drudge.

他的妻子不堪忍受被当作苦工役使，因而离开了他。

But I think I'm in earnest, and I do want something more than mere illusion.

但我认为我是非常认真的，我想要的不只是一个幻觉。

Joshua Eisner of the University of California, Berkeley, trained his attention on a star a mere 6m years old.

加州大学伯克利分校的Joshua Eisner把自己的注意力瞄准了一颗仅仅六百万岁的恒星。

We have limited budget let me know if you can do this competitively.

我们有限的预算让我知道如果你能做到这一点竞争力。

We don't know how other critters breathe--lizards, for example.

我们还不知道诸如蜥蜴之类的动物如何呼吸。