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仅仅是
Merely
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。
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
因为自由不仅仅是挣脱自己的枷锁,而是以尊重和增进他人自由的方式生活。
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
重要的是什么都不要期待,把每一次经历,包括那些消极的经历,都当作是在人生道路上迈出的一步,然后继续前进。
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 boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
一个想成为伟人的男孩,不应该仅仅下定决心去克服一千个障碍,而应该下定决心去战胜一千个挫折和失败。
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.
一个人可以活得健康,而不需要为了食物而猎杀动物;因此,如果他吃肉,他参与动物的生命只是为了他的胃口。
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。
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
没有什么是不可能的;有很多方法可以通向一切,如果我们有足够的意志,我们就应该有足够的手段。我们说事情是不可能的,往往只是为了找个借口。
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沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
丈夫永远不会变好;他们只是变得熟练。
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。
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。
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。