But it was an expedient which really destroyed the property and left a mere name.

但这只是一种破坏了其本性而只剩下一个称谓的权宜之计。

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He is only a bare name, a mere caput mortuum of abstracting understanding.

他只是一个徒有其名的人，仅是抽象理智的一个单纯的死躯壳。

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At the mere mention of the name of the visitor he pulled a face, which I took for a sign of disapproval.

一提到来访者的名字，他就做了个怪相，在我看来，这表示他不赞成。

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It is a Spanish mantra, requiring a mere change of name of euro-area countries, to insist that Spain is different.

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O. box in Hastings-on-Hudson how clever and coy he had been to find a place-name that was itself, with the mere insertion of an apostrophe, a sentence, and a faintly lascivious one, too.

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