sheer

• Out of sheer despair she at once concocted a reckless scheme .
  绝望之余，她想出了一个无可奈何的计策。
• It is sheer fiction .
  事属子虚。
• Out of sheer boredom i would pick up a book and read on and on .
  在百无聊赖中，随手抓过一本书来，读下去。
• The mole fell backwards on the snow from sheer surprise and delight .
  鼹鼠又惊又喜，仰面朝天地倒在雪地上。
• It seemed him that all he had suffered had been sheer waste .
  他觉得，他所遭受过的全部痛苦已经完全白费了。
• All the iris have popped open, and the smell is sheer heaven .
  所有的蝴蝶花全盛开了，那股香味简直妙不可言。
• I never in my life met his equal for sheer impudence .
  我一生从来没有遇见过一个在冒失无礼方面象他那样的人。
• By an act of sheer self-discipline he had made himself a surgeon .
  他完全靠着苦学，把自己训练成一个外科医生。
• The sheer unexpectedness of it made my hair stir under my cap .
  这猝不及防的惊变，使我帽子下面的头发都竖起来。
• His call for a book of the trains had been a sheer piece of impromptu .
  他打听火车时刻表只是一段纯粹的即兴曲。