A mere 2% of their budget has been spent on publicity.

他们的预算开支只有2%用于宣传。

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It took her a mere 20 minutes to win.

她只花了20分钟就赢了。

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You've got the job. The interview will be a mere formality.

你已经得到了这份工作。面试不过是个形式。

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"This is not a mere suspicion or speculation, some concrete indications of this possibly have been received."

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And he says on page 884: A poet writes always of his personal life, in his finest work out of its tragedies, whatever it be, ; remorse, lost love or mere loneliness; he never speaks directly as to someone at the breakfast table there is always a phantasmagoria.

84页他说道：,诗人总写自己的生活，最好的作品总是悲剧，不管是后悔，失恋或孤独;,这是他不会在餐桌上讲的,总是有这样一种幻境。

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But the container itself is a mere container.

但是容器本身仅仅是一个容器。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Further exacerbating the problem, the main volume was insanely loud set to just a mere a two out of 10, leaving little room for mixing in our music or fine-tuning over levels.

ENGADGET: Vox jams guitar amps into Audio-Technica headphones, dubs them Amphones (ears-on)

As time passes, potash will trend from a mere commodity to a strategic asset.

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Only producing a mere 500 cases a year makes this a rare, but not impossible, wine to find.

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