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So long as you limit yourself to superficial conditions, so long as you are a mere "hewer of wood or carrier of water" for those around you who do use their minds, you are in no better position than the beasts of burden.

如果你一直都将自己局限于表面的情境，如果你一直当自己仅仅是个"伐木工或者挑水工"，而你身边的人们却在"实实在在的应用"他们的思想，那么你也就只能当自己是行尸走肉了。

Even during the stockmarket crash of 1929, there was a mere hiccough before prices sailed higher.

即使在1929年的股市崩溃期间，它也仅仅打了喷嚏，随后继续飙升。

Even during thestockmarket crash of 1929, there was a mere hiccough before prices sailed

即使在1929年的股市崩溃期间，它也仅仅打了喷嚏，随后继续飙升。

Your employer has found that he has not a mere hireling in his service, but a man; not one who is content to give so many hours of work for so many dollars in return, but one who devotes his spare hours and constant thoughts to the business.

过不了多久，你就会发现，上司会就你的职责范围之内的业务征求你的意见和建议，而你给出的建议如果十分合理可行的话，上司可能就一些超出你职责范围之外的问题征求你的建议。

I hear the news of his arrival, but it turns out to be a mere hoax.

我得知他将到来的消息，却只变成一个玩笑。

As a mere boy, he had carried off the highest honours of the university.

作为一个纯粹的男孩，他曾进行过最高荣誉的大学。

It's also ironic that the coalition — which framed Prop 8 as a fight to protect California's children — was quietly knit together by the Catholic archbishop of San Francisco, who once excused the molestation of children at the hands of a pedophile priest as mere "horseplay."

同样，这个联盟也颇具讽刺意味--一个以打着保护儿童名义而支持8号提案的组织，由旧金山的天主教和大主教悄然的结合到一起，他们因恋童癖而猥亵了儿童后却将此解释为"嘻嘻打闹"。

It is not mere chance that Hosea, Isaiah ch.

这是不是单纯的机会何西阿，以赛亚书

The worldly man should not be startled to encounter a svelte Hottentot, or a short Norseman, or a hirsute Korean or a well-smelling Caucasian or a martial Buddhist or a charming Canadian or any of those other anomalies that the most vulgar among us suppose cannot exist, for the mere reason than that they are not quite so common as their opposite.

世俗的人不应该惊讶遇到苗条霍屯督，或短诺斯曼，多毛或韩国或良好闻高加索或武术佛教徒或一个迷人的加拿大或那些我们中间最粗俗的任何其他异常现象不能假设存在的比他们没有那么他们仅仅是相反的共同原因。

He's a mere husk of his former self.

他只剩下个躯壳。不适合

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。