(1)僅，只不過(guò)(no more important than，nothing more than)[作attrib]：He is a～boy(child).他只不過(guò)是個(gè)孩子。It's a～pretext.這只不過(guò)是托詞而已。a～20 miles a day每天僅20英里;a～50 cents an hour每小時(shí)只50美分;a～2 percent of the population僅占人口的2%;a～hundred yards away from sb's home離某人的家僅100碼遠(yuǎn);It is a～trifle.這只是件小事。It's～words.這不過(guò)是空話(huà)。〖同〗only;
the merest sth極小(不重要)的……：The～whisper makes him angry.僅小小的傳聞就使他很生氣。She became sad at the～suggestion of criticism.僅是一點(diǎn)批評(píng)的跡象就使她情緒低落。
→′merely adv 僅僅，不過(guò)