A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
仅仅是
Merely
The Public is merely a multiplied "me."
公众只是一个成倍增长的“我”。
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
生活不仅仅是活着，而是要活得好。
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
感激之情不过是希望得到进一步的恩惠。
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
皱纹应该只是微笑的痕迹。
You can't cross the sea merely by staring at the water.
你不能仅仅靠盯着水过河。
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
丈夫永远不会变好;他们只是变得熟练。
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
艺术家从来没有真正完成他的作品，他只是放弃了它。
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
历史不仅触及语言，而且发生在语言之中。
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
雄心壮志的实质不过是梦想的影子。
Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.
有些人认为他们只是在担心时才会集中注意力。
I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.
我不会仅仅因为一位女性是女性就让她去国会。
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
对大多数人来说，感激之情不过是一种获得进一步恩惠的隐秘希望。
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Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
昂贵的广告用暗示和图像来吸引我们。普通的只是说，买。
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
表演只不过是一种防止一大群人咳嗽的艺术。
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
至少早期移民的父亲曾经射杀印第安人:早期移民的孩子只是敲钟。
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
科学和模糊学科的区别在于，科学需要推理，而其他学科只需要学问。
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
公众接受或拒绝现代艺术中的任何东西，这种观念仅仅是浪漫主义小说。比赛结束了，奖杯在公众知道发生了什么之前就已经分发出去了。
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
真正的和平不仅仅是没有紧张，它是正义的存在。