英语释义

1. compassion or forbearance (see forbearance sense 1) shown especially to an offender or to one subject to one's power also lenient or compassionate treatment
begged for mercy

2. imprisonment rather than death imposed as penalty for first-degree murder

3. a blessing that is an act of divine favor or compassion
May God have mercy on us.

4. a fortunate circumstance
it was a mercy they found her before she froze

5. compassionate treatment of those in distress
works of mercy among the poor

6. wholly in the power of with no way to protect oneself against

7. kind or forgiving treatment of someone who could be treated harshly

8. kindness or help given to people who are in a very bad or desperate situation

9. a good or lucky fact or situation

10. kind and forgiving treatment of someone (as a wrongdoer or an opponent)
The prisoners were shown mercy.

11. kindness or help given to an unfortunate person
an act of mercy

12. a kind sympathetic disposition willingness to forgive, spare, or help
“There is not a scrap of pity or mercy in your heart …”
— Brian Jacques, Redwall

13. a blessing as an act of divine love
the mercies of God

14. a fortunate happening
It's a mercy that we arrived in time.

15. completely without protection from We're at the mercy of the weather.

片语

be at the mercy of受……的支配

at the mercy of sth任凭

C at the mercy of受…支配

lie at the mercy of在

at the mercy of circumstance受环境所支配

at t the mercy of任凭

英汉例句

• but you「re not at the mercy of these tobacco cravings.

  不过你可以不受这些吸烟欲望的支配。

• making papers follow specific paths putsyou in charge of paper instead of feeling at the mercy of paper.

  让纸张遵循特定的途径走会让你觉得你是主宰，而不用受那些纸张的可怜。

• without a plan for emergencies, you leave yourself at the mercy of the fickle fates.

  如果没有对这些紧急事件的计划，你可能会陷入无常之中，而毫无办法。

• the export model left germany at the mercy of changes in global demand.

  出口模式使得当前的德国需要在全球需求上做出改变。

• the mangrove’s ecosystem, however, is at the mercy of a delicate saline balance.

  然而，红树林生态系统受到微妙的盐水平衡的控制。

• they’re afraid of letting themselves be at the mercy of the film director and producer, who have more control over the movie’s final editing because they can play out one character more than another.

  他们都很怕将自己置于拥有更多影片最终剪辑控制权的导演和制片人的制约之下，因为他们完全能够表现得比其他人更好。

• since them all ships that ply the waters of the mekong from north to south and back have been at the mercy of naw kham, a former burma army run people’s militia force chief in tachilek.

  自那时起，所有从南到北航行于湄公河水域上的船只就一直全部置于诺康的管控之下，诺康是缅甸政府军麾下大其力地区民兵部队的前负责人。

• prudent institutions must no longer be at the mercy of reckless behaviour by their competitors.

  谨慎的金融监管制度不再任由它们的竞争者的鲁莽行为所摆布。

• you’ll be in charge of paper instead of feeling at the mercy of it!

  你会觉得你成了纸张的主宰而不是活于纸张的怜悯之下。

• one is that publishers are at the mercy of an inefficient distribution system: piles of books may sit unsold at one bookseller while demand goes unmet at another.

  一是出版商受效率低下的发行系统的影响严重：当一种图书在此书店脱销时，在彼书店却大量积压。

• not only crops, but also family income and nutrition are at the mercy of rain clouds.

  不光是作物，就连农民的家庭收入和营养也全赖那些雨云。

• if you really think about it, having a corporate job means that you’re at the mercy of a boss who may or may not like you.

  如果你真的那么想，认为有一份大企业的工作就意味着你是在老板的庇护之下，无论他喜不喜欢你。

• no longer must investors be at the mercy of error-prone and expensive fund managers.

  投资者们将不在任由那些容易出错且价格不匪的基金经理的摆布了。

• perhaps it is humankind」s long suffering at the mercy of flood and drought that makes the ideal of forcing the waters to do our bidding so fascination.

  可能正是因为人类长期听任旱涝灾害的摆布才使得人们如此癡迷于治理江河、使洪水听从人类调遣的理想。

• that「s true, but it also puts the student at the mercy of theparent」s credit history, which may not be so stable these days.

  此言不假，但如此一来该学生将受家长信用记录的牵连，而这年头这些记录恐怕不是很稳定。

• if you don「t compile your own kernel, you」re at the mercy of your distribution provider to enable this support.

  如果您没有编译自己的内核，那么就要看您的发行版提供商是否启用了这个支持。

• american workers, says mr webb, 「are at the mercy of cut-throat executives who are vastly overpaid, partly as a consequence of giving [the workers'] jobs away to other people.

  韦伯说：“如今的美国工人任由那些薪水极高的高管摆布，造成这种情况的部分原因是工人们的就业机会被赠与他人。」

• there is no reason to go on through life being at the mercy of uncontrolled thoughts, feelings, anxieties, worries and fears.

  没有任何理由去让你的人生受到控制不了的想法、感觉、忧虑、烦恼和害怕来左右。

• now and in the future, americans will live as free people, not in fear, and never at the mercy of any foreign plot or power.

  无论现在还是未来，美国人民都将生活在自由而不是恐惧之中，美国人民永远不会听任外国阴谋和权势的摆布。

• you are not at the mercy of your fellow man, or even your own subconscious desires.

  你不受他人支配，甚至不受自我潜意识欲望的支配。

• the extraction of keywords would have been a manual process, their selection entirely at the mercy of the person performing it.

  关键字的提取将是一个手动进程，关键字的选择完全取决于执行选择的人。

• even farther out to sea than the large fragments of multiyear ice are much smaller pieces of ice—so small that they are at the mercy of even small surface currents.

  距离这些大块的陈年浮冰区更远的海洋里，浮冰的尺寸要小得多，小得甚至可以被海洋表层细小洋流任意摆布。

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