查询词典 mere formality

Any mere millionaire today can buy a Bentley, Hatteras yacht or Gucci bag.

任何一位百万富翁现在都能买得起宾利车、Hatteras游艇或是Gucci手包。

In beginning of 9 years of New Year,"Refuse male " begin to have one's moment network, next, netizens are searched wildly about refusing male message, and mere end is all these a paragraph of video.

在09年新年伊始，"甩手男"开始走红网络，接下来，网友们疯狂寻找关于甩手男的消息，而这一切仅仅归结为一段视频。

I had, as is observed in the third year of my being here, kept a young kid, and bred her up tame, and I was in hope of getting a he-goat, but I could not by any means bring it to pass, until my kid grew an old goat; and I could never find in my heart to kill her, till she died at last of mere age.

我提到过，来这里的第三年，我捉到了一只小山羊，把她驯养大了。我一直希望再抓到一只公山羊；可是想尽办法也没能抓到一只与她配对，直到小山羊成了老母羊，我怎么也不忍心杀她，直到她最后老死。

If you have any cause to say anything against me outside of mere hearsay I wish you to say it.

如果你除开旁人的话，还有理由说得出我的不是，我愿意你说出来。

Linton had slid from his seat on to the hearthstone, and lay writhing in the mere perverseness of an indulged plague of a child, determined to be as grievous and harassing as it can.

我希望你满意了，凯蒂小姐，因为你不是能对他有益的人；他的健康情况也不是由于对你的依恋而搞成这样的。

Homer would have come thither to laugh with Perrault; and there was in that black garden, youth, health, noise, cries, giddiness, pleasure, happiness enough to smooth out the wrinkles of all their ancestresses, those of the epic as well as those of the fairy-tale, those of the throne as well as those of the thatched cottage from Hecuba to la Mere-Grand.

荷马有知，也当来此与贝洛①同乐，在这凄惨的园子里有青春，有健康，有人声，有叫嚷，有稚气，有乐趣，有幸福，这能使所有的老妈妈喜笑颜开，无论是史诗里的或是童话里的，宫廷中的或是茅舍中的，从赫卡伯②直到老大妈。

It isn't mere jealousy, it's literally hellfire.

那不仅是嫉妒，确切地说是地狱之火。

In the Theaetetus Plato tried to show the danger of conceiving the world as but a Heraclitean flux; for discourse to be possible, we need something like general terms. Or in other words, there must be something more than the mere perception of each individual in each moment. This "must" is not the Kantian "must"--in the sense of a transcendental precondition for cognition--but a "must" that is thoroughly practical: without general terms, we cannot even talk to each other.

这套想法的内容本身，我是同意的；但我不大认同这种笛卡儿式的method of doubt(即为了捉紧一些颠扑不破的真理而在方法上质疑一切有理由被质疑的见解)，尤其是在灵性而非物性的探索上，因为这种怀疑方法所带来的结论，往往不会令人高呼Heureka，而只会使人吐出一句so what--你考虑的可能是某种观念的实际意义，而我重视的则是某种方法的实用价值。

The mere survival of his work is not enough, for many heretical writings have come down to us, together with others of doubtful value.

仅仅生存他的工作是不够的，对许多邪教的著作已经降了，我们同其他国家的价值令人怀疑。

I don't think Mr. Herrick was much older than Lindbergh except in the mere matter of years; and I imagine that Lindbergh did not feel himself much younger than Mr. Herrick.

忽略时间这个概念，我不觉得Herrick先生比林白大多少，也想象到林白可能并不认为自己比Herrick年轻多少。

This matter overthrew all basises I learned from Sunday school .

这件事把我从周日学校学到的所有道理都颠覆了。

It's one of the cruel ironies of aging: if you want to remember your favorite restaurants, the less you should eat at them.

这是一个老化的残酷讽刺：如果你想记住你最喜欢的餐馆，你应该更少吃到它们。