1·He is only a bare name, a mere caput mortuum of abstracting understanding.
他只是一个徒有其名的人，仅是抽象理智的一个单纯的死躯壳。
2·Yet current law lays down that only islands can support economic areas. Mere rocks, places which "cannot sustain human habitation or economic life of their own", have no such privilege.
然而，现行的法律明文规定只有岛屿才能支撑得起经济区，仅仅是不能维持人类居住和经济生活的礁岩岛没有这项特权。
3·For centuries, the nocturnal cries of the Devil Bird were the only evidence of its existence; Western science wrote if off as mere superstition.
几个世纪以来，只有恶魔鸟夜间的叫声显示了它的存在，西方科学家仅仅把它看做迷信。
4·Meanwhile, only 61 per cent of Apple's suppliers were following regulations to prevent injuries in the workplace and a mere 57 per cent had the correct environmental permits to operate.
同时，只有61%的苹果供应商遵循了在工作场所防止受伤的监管，仅仅57%有合格的操作环境许可证。
5·They reckon that the more generous payments have raised the unemployment rate by only a mere 0.4 percentage points.
他们推断更慷慨的失业救济可能会使得失业率上升只有0.4个百分点。
6·But the number of priests under the age of 70 is a mere 39, and only seven of those are under 40.
可是，这里未满70岁的神父仅仅剩下了39人，其中40岁以下的只有7人。
7·In July, those aged 12-24 scored a "121" - a score that was only in the mid-70s a mere six months ago.
在7月份，12-24年龄段的这一数字是121——而就在半年之前这个数字只有70左右。
8·A mere six weeks ago Mrs Bachmann was basking in her own victory in the Ames straw poll in Iowa, only to be eclipsed as soon as Mr Perry made his late eruption into the race.
仅仅六个星期以前巴克曼夫人还浸浴在爱荷华州艾姆斯模拟投票的胜利中，但是在佩里先生迟来的突然宣布参选之后其光芒很快就被遮盖了。
9·Tonight's rare lunar occurrence, when Earth's natural satellite is only a mere 356, 575 kilometers out in orbit, brings the moon to its closest position to Earth.
今天晚上地球的天然卫星月球在其轨道上离地球仅有356575公里远，这使得月球处于离地球最近的位置上，而这也是极为罕见的有关月球的事件。
10·The rail tickets remind passengers to be onboard a mere two minutes before departure, and the only security procedure involves passing large suitcases though a scanner.
火车票上的注意事项提醒乘客，检票将在发车前2分钟停止；而唯一可以称得上安检的，就是要对大件行李进行扫描。