MERE

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Traducere în limba română

mere¹ substantiv

1. lac (mic), iaz, eleşteu; baltă.

2. (înv.) limită, margine; graniţă, frontieră, hotar.

mere² adjectiv

simplu, pur; numai; nimic altceva decât;

a mere coincidence o simpiă coincidenţă;

as a mere spectator ca simplu spectator;

out of mere spite din pură răutate, numai din răutate;

it's mere chance e o simplă întâmplare;

I shudder at the mere thought of it, the mere thought of it makes me shudder tremur numai când mă gândesc (la asta);

he is a mere boy e numai un băietaş, nu-i decât un copil;

mere form numai forma, nimic altceva decât formă;

it is a mere imagination e numai o imaginaţie, nu e altceva decât imaginaţie;

(fam.) to be sold for a mere song / trifle a fi vândut pe nimic;

mere words vorbe goale.

But to fail here, is not mere life or death.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

“There is no extent of mere weakness, Clara,” said Mr. Murdstone in reply, “that can have the least weight with me. You lose breath.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all: you are a mere dream.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

It was no mere form for either of them.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The girl is not told of the arrival of her brother, and finds it out by the merest accident.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No mere woman had a voice like that.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

“Oh!” she cried in evident embarrassment, “it all meant nothing; a mere joke among ourselves.”

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Elinor needed little observation to perceive that her reserve was a mere calmness of manner with which sense had nothing to do.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

“Smith's place is the admiration of all the country; and it was a mere nothing before Repton took it in hand. I think I shall have Repton.”

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Of course, it must be a mere chance about the glasses.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)