Merciful
['mɜːsɪfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['mɝsɪfl]
解釋/意思:
(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' .
杰奎琳編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish.
(a.) Unwilling to give pain; compassionate.
編輯:莉齐
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Gracious, kind, compassionate, tender, benignant, lenient, mild, gentle, pitiful, tender-hearted.
约瑟芬校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Compassionate, kindhearted, clement, gracious, kind
ANT:Pitiless, unrelenting, remorseless, inexorable,[See KIND]
整理:莱缪尔
例句/造句/用法:
- The aspect of piteous distress on his face, almost as imploring a merciful and kind judgment from his child, gave her a sudden sickening. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Hope, almost life, hangs on your answer; therefore, dear Ponsonby be merciful, and so may God bless you. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Oh merciful Death, let me see it before your arms enfold me, before your voice whispers to me, Rest at last! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- As He is good and merciful, she will live to bless us all, for years to come. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The way to relieve your mind is to speak to the merciful and Christian mistress who has always been kind to you. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Gods be merciful and quench it! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- For my sake, then, be merciful to my husband. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- 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. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- She will put her hands together and pray you to be merciful. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- As His disciple I adopt His pure, His merciful, His benignant doctrines. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- He was not merciful with her, and he made her do it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The gracious and merciful Heavens forbid! 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- 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. 世紀發明.
- Merciful heavens--a bad sign? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- If you do not love her it is the most merciful thing in the long run to leave her as she is. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Ah, you ARE kind--you're merciful--you always were! 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The son inheriting, was so merciful as to forgive me both, and place me here. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- On the tenth day it pleased a merciful Providence to relieve our household from all further anxiety and alarm. 威爾基·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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- 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! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- It is merciful in the administration of justice. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Then the knife came down, swift and merciful. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I shall remain here beside my Princess until a merciful death releases me from my anguish. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- 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. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I only plead with you for a more accurate and more merciful construction of motives. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- And when the time comes--may it come soon, if it be His merciful pleasure! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- 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. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- 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. 雪麗.
整理:莱缪尔