Merciful
['mɜːsɪfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['mɝsɪfl]
解释:
(adj.) (used conventionally of royalty and high nobility) gracious; 'our merciful king' .
(adj.) showing or giving mercy; 'sought merciful treatment for the captives'; 'a merciful god' .
杰奎琳编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish.
(a.) Unwilling to give pain; compassionate.
编辑:莉齐
同义词及近义词：
a. Gracious, kind, compassionate, tender, benignant, lenient, mild, gentle, pitiful, tender-hearted.
约瑟芬校对
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Compassionate, kindhearted, clement, gracious, kind
ANT:Pitiless, unrelenting, remorseless, inexorable,[See KIND]
整理:莱缪尔
例句:
- The aspect of piteous distress on his face, almost as imploring a merciful and kind judgment from his child, gave her a sudden sickening. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Hope, almost life, hangs on your answer; therefore, dear Ponsonby be merciful, and so may God bless you. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Oh merciful Death, let me see it before your arms enfold me, before your voice whispers to me, Rest at last! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- As He is good and merciful, she will live to bless us all, for years to come. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- The way to relieve your mind is to speak to the merciful and Christian mistress who has always been kind to you. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Gods be merciful and quench it! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- For my sake, then, be merciful to my husband. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- But it was a merciful Providence which prevented him from foreseeing the hideous reality which awaited them in the grim depths of that gloomy wood. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- She will put her hands together and pray you to be merciful. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Yet the cold was merciful, for it was the cold night air and the rain that restored me from a swoon on the stones of the causeway. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- As His disciple I adopt His pure, His merciful, His benignant doctrines. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- He was not merciful with her, and he made her do it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- The gracious and merciful Heavens forbid! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- And if corporations have been slow to adopt such merciful devices, legislatures have stepped in to help the matter. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Merciful heavens--a bad sign? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- If you do not love her it is the most merciful thing in the long run to leave her as she is. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Ah, you ARE kind--you're merciful--you always were! 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- The son inheriting, was so merciful as to forgive me both, and place me here. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- On the tenth day it pleased a merciful Providence to relieve our household from all further anxiety and alarm. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- But please Heaven yours will be restored to you, as a merciful merciful Providence has brought me back mine. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Now, merciful Heaven be thanked for that old time, and grant, O Blessed Lord, that through thy wonderful workings it may turn to good at last! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- It is merciful in the administration of justice. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Then the knife came down, swift and merciful. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I shall remain here beside my Princess until a merciful death releases me from my anguish. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- Usually she would have been interested about her uncle's merciful errand on behalf of the criminal, but her late agitation had made her absent-minded. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- I only plead with you for a more accurate and more merciful construction of motives. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- And when the time comes--may it come soon, if it be His merciful pleasure! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- We were all disposed to wonder, but it seems to have been the merciful appointment of Providence that the heart which knew no guile should not suffer. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- As he was not merciful, he would sometimes wound and wound again, without noticing how much he hurt, or caring how deep he thrust. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
整理:莱缪尔