A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
仅仅是
Merely
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。
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
神造人，只是为了要听人赞美他在这五天里所做的事。
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。
To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.
对大多数有观点的人来说，上电视本身就是一件好事。
A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.
艺术家手中的视觉形象只是一种触发心理形象的工具。
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。
All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.
所有的道德法则都只是说明某种行为会产生好的效果。
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
从现在的努力中解脱出来，仅仅意味着过去的努力已经积累起来了。
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。
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
说一个人是虚荣的，仅仅意味着他对自己给别人带来的影响感到满意。
Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.
对宇宙的思考现在已经交给了专家们。我们其余的人只是读到它。
The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
记忆，经历和再经历，对一个人的个人生活有如此大的影响，以至于一个人仅仅是活着。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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 Public is merely a multiplied "me."
公众只是一个成倍增长的“我”。
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。
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。
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
最高的教育不仅给我们信息，而且使我们的生活与所有的存在和谐一致。