mere

英 [m??] 美[m?r]

CET4TEM4考研CET6中頻詞核心詞匯

復數:?meres;最高級:?merest;

mere 純粹的，僅僅，只不過

來自拉丁語merus,明亮的，純的，不摻假的，來自PIE*mer,發光，照耀，詞源同morning.引申詞義純粹的，后用于副詞僅僅，只不過。比較very,just.

mere 湖，池塘

來自mere,海，湖，池塘，來自Proto-Germanic*mari,海，來自PIE*mori,海，湖泊，詞源同mare,marsh.后用于指湖，池塘。

mere: mere: see mermaid
mere (adj.): c. 1400, "unmixed, pure," from Old French mier "pure" (of gold), "entire, total, complete," and directly from Latin merus "unmixed" (of wine), "pure; bare, naked;" figuratively "true, real, genuine," probably originally "clear, bright," from PIE *mer- "to gleam, glimmer, sparkle" (cognates: Old English amerian "to purify," Old Irish emer "not clear," Sanskrit maricih "ray, beam," Greek marmarein "to gleam, glimmer"). Original sense of "nothing less than, absolute" (mid-15c., now only in vestiges such as mere folly) existed for centuries alongside opposite sense of "nothing more than" (1580s, as in a mere dream).
mere (n.): Old English mere "sea, ocean; lake, pool, pond, cistern," from Proto-Germanic *mari (cognates: Old Norse marr, Old Saxon meri "sea," Middle Dutch maer, Dutch meer "lake, sea, pool," Old High German mari, German Meer "sea," Gothic marei "sea," mari-saiws "lake"), from PIE *mori- "sea" (cognates: Latin mare, Old Church Slavonic morje, Russian more, Lithuanian mares, Old Irish muir, Welsh mor "sea," Gaulish Are-morici "people living near the sea").

1. The mere mention of John had touched a very raw nerve indeed.: 提到約翰就真的讓人心痛。

2. The mere mention of food had triggered off hunger pangs.: 單單提到食物就引起了陣陣饑餓感。

4. It is too early to say whether the threats are mere sabre-rattling.: 現在斷言這些威脅是否只是虛張聲勢還為時過早。

5. Is his promotion evidence of the minorities' advance, or mere tokenism?: 他的晉升是證明了少數族裔的進步，還是僅僅為了裝點門面？