Mercy
['mɜːsɪ] or ['mɝsi]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed; 'distributing food and clothing to the flood victims was an act of mercy'.
(noun.) something for which to be thankful; 'it was a mercy we got out alive'.
手打:柯尔斯顿--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict it; compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary; clemency.
(n.) Compassionate treatment of the unfortunate and helpless; sometimes, favor, beneficence.
(n.) Disposition to exercise compassion or favor; pity; compassion; willingness to spare or to help.
(n.) A blessing regarded as a manifestation of compassion or favor.
編輯:马里奥
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Clemency, lenity, lenience, leniency, compassion, pity, tenderness, kindness, mildness, gentleness.
錄入:露西
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Compassion, clemency, forgiveness, forbearance, grace, benefit, gift, pity,leniency, tenderness
ANT:Exaction, harshness, cruelty, vengeance, unpityingness, unforgiveness
克拉丽斯編輯
解釋/意思:
n. tenderness and forbearance shown in sparing an offender in one's power: a forgiving disposition: clemency: an act of mercy: an undeserved blessing: compassion or benevolence.—adjs. Mer′ciable (Spens.) merciful; Mer′ciful full of or exercising mercy.—adv. Mer′cifully.—n. Mer′cifulness.—v.t. Mer′cify (Spens.) to deal mercifully with to pity.—adj. Mer′ciless without mercy: unfeeling: cruel.—adv. Mer′cilessly.—ns. Mer′cilessness want of mercy; Mer′cy-seat the seat or place of mercy; the covering of the Jewish Ark of the Covenant: the throne of God.—At the mercy of (another) wholly in the power of; For mercy! or For mercy's sake! an exclamatory appeal to pity; Great mercy=Gramercy; Sisters of mercy members of female religious communities who tend the sick &c.
迪克整理
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.
整理:伊冯
例句/造句/用法:
- I will endure thy sun's scorching rays, O God of Mercy! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I can honestly say it--in mercy to HER, I turned away without a word, and opened the door by which I had entered the room. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The Lord only gives us our worldly goods that we may do justice and mercy; if our rulers require a price of us for it, we must deliver it up. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Let me listen to Mercy as long as she is near me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- All I say is, it's a mercy they didn't take this Doctor Lydgate on to our club. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The woman fixed a wild and startled look on Tom, as if a new thought had struck her; and then, heavily groaning, said, O God a' mercy! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Heaven's mercy, woman! 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- To have attempted to dive below her would have put us entirely at her mercy, and precisely where she wanted us. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- They reasoned, they appealed, they implored; on his mercy they cast themselves, into his hands they confidingly thrust their interests. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Well, of course, if you can look on the bright side, pray do; it's a mercy if people haven't sensitive feelings, in this world. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- You will give me the benefit of your self-possession, and not leave me at the mercy of agitated cowards? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- For the sake of mercy, said Rebecca, tell me what I am to expect as the conclusion of the violence which hath dragged me hither! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Pious to guard the hospitable rite, And fearing Jove, whom mercy's works delight. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Oh, mercy me! 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I don't know about mercy, said Mr. Vincy, testily. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- If I were weak now, what had I profited by those mercies? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the tender mercies of church-wardens and overseers, perhaps he would have cried the louder. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- There are dogs about the house, and shall I leave my forlorn white children at the mercies of the dogs? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- But, now I believe that the mark of the red cross is fatal to them, and that they have no part in His mercies. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The field thus sown on the basement story, I ran lightly upstairs to scatter my mercies next over the drawing-room floor. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- But when I think of my husband, and the mercies of these people-- We will set him above their mercies very soon. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
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