mercy是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 kindness that makes you forgive someone, usually someone that you have authority over -- 慈悲，憐憫；仁慈，寬容

  • She appealed to the judge to have mercy on her husband. 她請求法官寬恕她的丈夫。

  • The prisoners pleaded for mercy. 囚犯都懇求從輕發落。

  • The gunmen showed no mercy, killing innocent men and women. 那些槍手毫無憐憫之心，濫殺無辜男女。

  • Poor people are increasingly at the mercy of money-lenders. 窮人受放債人擺布的情況日益嚴重。

• 1 an event or situation that you are grateful for because it stops something unpleasant -- 恩惠；解脫

  • After months of suffering, his death was a mercy. 遭受了數月痛苦的折磨後，死對他來說是一種解脫。

  • They were on a mercy mission to take food to the refugees when they were attacked. 他們遇襲時正在執行一項為難民運送食品的救援任務。