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正面 2943.mere
英 [mɪə]美 [mɪr]

背面
释义:
adj. 仅仅的;只不过的n. 小湖;池塘n. (Mere)人名;(日)目连(姓);(西)梅雷
例句:
1. The mere mention of John had touched a very raw nerve indeed.提到约翰就真的让人心痛。

split............撕破裂它(撕破裂开了).......裂开;分离的2. spl-喷、分散、分裂,谐音“死不裂它”
mere 纯粹的,仅仅,只不过来自拉丁语merus,明亮的,纯的,不掺假的,来自PIE*mer,发光,照耀,词源同morning.引申词义纯粹的,后用于副词仅仅,只不过。比较very,just.mere 湖,池塘来自mere,海,湖,池塘,来自Proto-Germanic*mari,海,来自PIE*mori,海,湖泊,词源同mare,marsh.后用于指湖,池塘。
meremere: see mermaidmere (adj.)c. 1400, "unmixed, pure," from Old French mier "pure" (of gold), "entire, total, complete," and directly from Latin merus "unmixed" (of wine), "pure; bare, naked;" figuratively "true, real, genuine," probably originally "clear, bright," from PIE *mer- "to gleam, glimmer, sparkle" (cognates: Old English amerian "to purify," Old Irish emer "not clear," Sanskrit maricih "ray, beam," Greek marmarein "to gleam, glimmer"). Original sense of "nothing less than, absolute" (mid-15c., now only in vestiges such as mere folly) existed for centuries alongside opposite sense of "nothing more than" (1580s, as in a mere dream).mere (n.)Old English mere "sea, ocean; lake, pool, pond, cistern," from Proto-Germanic *mari (cognates: Old Norse marr, Old Saxon meri "sea," Middle Dutch maer, Dutch meer "lake, sea, pool," Old High German mari, German Meer "sea," Gothic marei "sea," mari-saiws "lake"), from PIE *mori- "sea" (cognates: Latin mare, Old Church Slavonic morje, Russian more, Lithuanian mares, Old Irish muir, Welsh mor "sea," Gaulish Are-morici "people living near the sea")."

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