【mercy音标】 英[ˈmɜ:si] 美[ˈmɜ:rsi]
【单词释义】 mercy是什么意思:
n.[U]怜悯;仁慈;宽容;宽恕;[C]幸运;侥幸;恩惠
[单词分级] 高考英语词汇
[单词复数] mercies
【单词例句】
◇ "Yes," they all shouted. "We will show her mercy. Just tell us."
“好的,”他们一起说,“我们饶了她。快把新闻告诉我们吧。”
---- The Twelve Brothers
◇ "Mercy!" cried Karen. But she did not hear the angel's reply, for the shoes carried her through the gate into the fields, across roads and bridges, and she must keep ever dancing.
"请饶了我吧!"珈伦叫起来。不过她没有听到安琪儿的回答,因为这双鞋把她带出门,到田野上去了,带到大路上和小路上去了。她得不停地跳舞。
---- The Red Shoes
◇ For example, tigers are hunted for fur to make carpets so that they can only live in secure reserves; grassland is destroyed without mercy so that dust storms come into being affecting distant cities.
例如,老虎被猎杀以获取做地毯的皮毛,以致它们只能生活在安全的保护区里;草地被毫不怜悯地破坏,以致沙尘暴开始影响遥远的城市。
---- Wildlife Protection
◇ Not fearing of the prison guards’ cruelty, he kept active and begged no mercy from them. As a matter of fact, he was always hopeful and never lost heart during the stage even though he was in trouble.
在狱中,他毫不畏惧狱警的残酷,始终保持积极的态度,不向他们乞求怜悯。实际上,他在任何一个困境时期都充满着希望,从未灰心。
---- The Great President
◇ Until the old woman had mercy and said to him, "Be satisfied that she is still alive. I secretly had a doe killed and took the proofs from it. I tied your wife's child onto her back and told her to go out into the wide world, and she had to promise never to come back here, because you were so angry with her."
老母看他哭得实在可怜,就对他说:“别哭了,她还活着。我悄悄地杀了一头鹿,取了那些证物。实际上我把孩子绑到你妻子的背上,让她到野外谋生,要她别再回来,因为你信上似乎对她很恼怒。”