mercies

英 [ˈmɜːsiz]

美 [ˈmɜrsiz]

n.  仁慈; 宽恕; 幸运; 恩惠
mercy的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 仁慈;怜悯;宽恕
  If someone in authority showsmercy, they choose not to harm someone they have power over, or they forgive someone they have the right to punish.
  1. Neither side took prisoners or showed any mercy...
     双方都没有抓俘虏，也没有表现出丝毫的心慈手软。
  2. They cried for mercy but their pleas were met with abuse and laughter...
     他们哭喊着请求宽恕，可是他们的恳求却遭到了谩骂和嘲笑。
  3. May God have mercy on your soul.
     愿上帝宽恕你的灵魂。
• ADJ 慈善的;救援的
  Mercyis used to describe a special journey to help someone in great need, such as people who are sick or made homeless by war.
  1. She vanished nine months ago while on a mercy mission to West Africa...
     9个月前她在去西非的慈善之旅中消失了。
  2. It's the first so-called mercy flight for a fortnight as the Americans have been waiting for enough people to fill a 747 jet.
     美国人一直在等人坐满一架747飞机，这便是第一次为期两周的所谓慈善飞行。
• N-COUNT 幸运;侥幸
  If you refer to an event or situation asa mercy, you mean that it makes you feel happy or relieved, usually because it stops something unpleasant happening.
  1. It really was a mercy that he'd died so rapidly at the end...
     他最后去得那么快，真是谢天谢地。
  2. The two cars finished up in a run-off area, clear of the circuit, and that was a mercy.
     两辆车最后都停在了缓冲区，避开了赛车道，真是万幸。
• PHRASE 完全由…支配;任由…摆布
  If one person or thing isat the mercy ofanother, the first person or thing is in a situation where they cannot prevent themselves being harmed or affected by the second.
  1. Buildings are left to decay at the mercy of vandals and the weather...
     建筑物因人为的肆意破坏及日晒雨淋而日益破败。
  2. The Emperor must realize that he has us at his mercy.
     皇帝必须意识到我们任由他处置。
• PHRASE 为坏情况没有变得更糟而庆幸
  If you tell someone who is in an unpleasant situation that they should begratefulorthankful for small mercies, you mean that although their situation is bad, it could be even worse, and so they should be happy.
  1. But so low has morale sunk that the team and the fans would have been grateful for small mercies.
     士气如此低沉，一丁点的好运都会让队员和球迷庆幸不已。
• PHRASE 听凭…发落
  If youthrowyourselfonsomeone'smercy, you put yourself in a situation where they will have complete power to decide how to treat you, for example whether to punish or forgive you.
  1. He's going to throw himself on the mercy of the court.
     他准备听凭法庭发落。

双语例句

• I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of god, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto god, which is your reasonable service.
  所以弟兄们，我以神的慈悲劝你们，将身体献上，当作活祭，是圣洁的，是神所喜悦的。你们如此事奉，乃是理所当然的。
• I could heart her mother shouting and swearing as she came to unlock the door, so I said good-bye quickly and left her to the tender mercies of her parents.
  她母亲出来开门时，我听到她的叫骂声，于是我赶忙说了声再见离开了，留下她任其父母打骂了。
• Take not away your gentle mercies from me, o lord; let your mercy and your faith keep me safe for ever.
  耶和华阿，求你不要向我止住你的慈悲。愿你的慈爱和诚实，常常保佑我。
• And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.
  我也要使他发怜悯，好怜悯你们，叫你们归回本地。
• But so low has morale sunk that the team and the fans would have been grateful for small mercies.
  士气如此低沉，一丁点的好运都会让队员和球迷庆幸不已。
• For the mercies he's shown us at this dreadful time.
  苦难时刻展现给我们的仁慈。
• Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me?
  求你从天上垂顾，从你圣洁荣耀的居所观看。你的热心和大能的作为在那里呢。
• Let your mercies come to me, o lord, even your salvation, as you have said.
  耶和华阿，愿你照你的话，使你的慈爱，就是你的救恩，临到我身上。
• I spent the whole day in humble and thankful acknowledgments of the many wonderful mercies which my solitary condition was attended with, and without which it might have been infinitely more miserable.
  整整一天，我怀着谦卑和感激的心情，追念上帝给我的种种恩惠。如果没有这些恩惠，我孤寂的生活就会更凄苦了。
• Three, you can degrade the political will of the US to the point that it will not only withdraw, but also abandon its allies to the mercies of their opponents.
  第三，你可以把美国的政治意图降低到这样的程度：它不仅愿意撤退，而且还愿意抛弃自己的盟友，把他们交给自己的对手任意处置。