просто 用英语:

Are you certain that you lost your book, or did you merely misplace it?

merely existing

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. And to act so is immoral.

Just as it is better to illuminate than merely to shine, so to pass on what one has contemplated is better than merely to contemplate.

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

When he claims to desire eternal life, in reality man merely wishes to avoid a premature, violent or gruesome death.

Superstitions derive from the inability of men to acknowledge that coincidences are merely coincidences.

There is also one type of idealism that says even without strength or intelligence you can do anything if you can merely persist.

As soon as we are born, the world gets to work on us and transforms us from merely biological into social units.

Truth burns and destroys all elements, showing that they are merely its shadow.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Japanese students seem not merely to be extremely reserved, but to have at times almost a complete reluctance to speak.

We need to separate the brilliant candidates from the merely very good.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

He just left.

If you don't want to put on sunscreen, that's your problem. Just don't come complaining to me when you get a sunburn.

Rather than putting off this meeting, why don't we just call it off?

A really perceptive person can figure out a whole situation with just a few clues. That's the kind of person I want you to become.

Being a good conversationalist does not just mean being a good speaker of English.

The question is whether Tom was planning to meet Mary or just met her by chance.

He just naturally avoids everything that is intense, difficult or strenuous.

Just when I was getting the hang of things, I was in a traffic accident and had to stay two months in the hospital.

Tom would often make mistakes purposely just so the teacher would notice him.

Considering all I've eaten all day is just one slice of bread, I'm not really all that hungry.

I don't need to sound like a native speaker, I just want to be able to speak fluently.

I have a hard time seeing the logic of this latest decision of his. He just isn't as sharp as he used to be.

He puts on a show of being impartial and unbiased, but I think he's just a guy with no opinion of his own.

I've been thinking about marriage a lot, and I think we should just do it.

If you raise an eyebrow, it can mean "I want to have sex with you", but also "I find that what you just said is completely idiotic."