zaledwie 英語で:

Are you certain that you lost your book, or did you merely misplace it?

merely existing

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.

Just as it is better to illuminate than merely to shine, so to pass on what one has contemplated is better than merely to contemplate.

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

When he claims to desire eternal life, in reality man merely wishes to avoid a premature, violent or gruesome death.

Superstitions derive from the inability of men to acknowledge that coincidences are merely coincidences.

There is also one type of idealism that says even without strength or intelligence you can do anything if you can merely persist.

As soon as we are born, the world gets to work on us and transforms us from merely biological into social units.

Truth burns and destroys all elements, showing that they are merely its shadow.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Japanese students seem not merely to be extremely reserved, but to have at times almost a complete reluctance to speak.

We need to separate the brilliant candidates from the merely very good.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

I worked out so hard at the gym yesterday that today I can barely move.

There were just barely over 100 houses in the village we passed yesterday.

Tom always speaks in such a low voice that I can barely understand what he says.

The swimmer, Cindy Nicholas, barely made it ashore at Dover at the end of the exhausting swim, but a spokesman from the Channel Swimming Association announced that she was in very good shape.

The shooting victim is alive, but just barely.

he barely wors

It's a biggish chair, but it'll just barely fit through the doorway.

We're in a slump, barely scraping by, so we certainly don't have the margin to take on a part-time worker.

The sun had barely risen at the foot of the mountain when she set out alone up the slope.

I couldn't hurt him, I've barely touched him!

they barely saw their father except at special family gatherings

This is true of Greece, where production covers barely 50% of domestic consumption.

A barely perceptible rise in air temperature

I ordered it the day before and I barely had any recollection.

These shoes are too tight, I can barely walk. // It's so loud here, I can barely hear you. // I had barely finished my coffee when she called.

Quantum physics is too difficult for a mere mortal to understand.

A mere repetition of other people's research cannot be called true scientific research.

mere coincidence

There is but One who is absolutely by and through himself, — namely, God; and God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

According to the "ahl al-haqq" the universe consists of only one substance, and all what we name generations and corruptions, death and life, is a mere combination or dissolution of modes.

Is it mere coincidence that "banality", when anagrammed, reads "Ban Italy"?

Mum, a mere woman surrounded by men, works in a construction company as a site foreman.

Robinson considers nature a mere object of scientific study to exploit for his own uses and pleasure.

Mere decay produces richer life.

The Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity.

Condillac, with sensationalism, revolutionised the concept of mind, making language and gesture prior to ideas, shattering Locke's conception of language as a mere passive medium.

a mere child; the merest suggestion of criticism; it was sold for a mere £45

"We did a slow circuit of the castle, watching Thomas roll down the steep parts of the hill, feeding the ducks that by this stage in the season were so well stuffed they could barely be bothered to come over for mere bread. "

questions that cannot be answered by mere mortals

However, in any historical process, such details are mere trivialities.

I scarcely think so.

My little brother can scarcely swim yet.

I had scarcely entered the class before the students started asking questions.

Mary scarcely seems to care for me, does she?

Scarcely had I reached the airport before I realized I had forgotten my ticket.

Scarcely an hour goes by that I don't I think of you with love.

although its population is expected to scarcely increase.

I was scarcely able to move my arm after the accident.

that is scarcely justification for your actions

They could scarcely all be wrong. She had scarcely dismounted before the door swung open

You've scarcely changed!

1. You've scarcely changed! 2. I've scarcely come here. 3. It's scarcely the time to argue.

Scarcely had Jack seen her, he burst out crying.

Bob was so beside himself that he could scarcely tell fact from fiction.

We had scarcely arrived at the Institution for the Blind when I began to make friends with the little blind children.