mercy

英 ['mɜːsɪ] 美['mɝsi]

近义词sympathy kindness pity compassion charity

反义词

n. 仁慈，宽容；怜悯；幸运；善行
n. (Mercy)人名；(英)默西，默茜(女名)；(法)梅西

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中文词源

mercy 仁慈，怜悯

来自古法语merci,礼物，奖品，友善，来自拉丁语merx,商品，物品，词源同market,merchant.原指神对帮助弱者的人给予的礼物或奖励，本质上即通过交换或贸易来鼓励人们行善，后用于指上帝原谅其子民的冒犯和无知，并由此引申词义仁慈，怜悯。

词态变化

复数: mercies;

助记提示

1. 神仙拿着花来 c‐see y‐you.

英文词源

mercy: mercy: [12] Latin mercēs meant ‘payment, reward’. In the Christian era the notion of a ‘reward’ was taken up and reapplied metaphorically to the ‘compassion given freely by God to humankind’, and the word passed into Old French (in the form merci) with the broader sense ‘compassion’, and hence ‘forbearance from punishment’. English took it over and has continued to use it in much the same way, but its main role in modern French is as the word for ‘thank you’.
mercy (n.): late 12c., "God's forgiveness of his creatures' offenses," from Old French mercit, merci (9c.) "reward, gift; kindness, grace, pity," from Latin mercedem (nominative merces) "reward, wages, pay hire" (in Vulgar Latin "favor, pity"), from merx (genitive mercis) "wares, merchandise" (see market (n.)). In Church Latin (6c.) applied to the heavenly reward of those who show kindness to the helpless.

Meaning "disposition to forgive or show compassion" is attested from early 13c. As an interjection, attested from mid-13c. In French largely superseded by miséricorde except as a word of thanks. Seat of mercy "golden covering of the Ark of the Covenant" (1530) is Tyndale's loan-translation of Luther's gnadenstuhl, an inexact rendering of Hebrew kapporeth, literally "propitiatory."

双语例句

1. 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。

2. Ordinary people are at the mercy of faceless bureaucrats.: 普通人的命运任凭那些平庸刻板的官僚们摆布。

3. They meant to finish her off, swiftly and without mercy.: 他们打算毫不留情地迅速结果了她。

4. He's going to throw himself on the mercy of the court.: 他准备听凭法庭发落。

5. Kelly prayed that God would judge her with mercy.: 凯莉祈求在接受最后的审判时能得到上帝的怜悯。

英英释意

1. leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice;: "he threw himself on the mercy of the court"

2. a disposition to be kind and forgiving;: "in those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband"

3. the feeling that motivates compassion

4. something for which to be thankful;: "it was a mercy we got out alive"

5. alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed;: "distributing food and clothing to the flood victims was an act of mercy"

考试真题

In The Prince, he championed cunning, ruthlessness, and boldness, rather than virtue, mercy and justice, as the skills of successful leaders.

实用场景例句

to ask/beg/plead for mercy: 请求 / 乞求 / 祈求宽恕

They showed no mercy to their hostages.: 他们对人质丝毫不讲仁慈。

God have mercy on us.: 上帝怜悯我们吧。

The troops are on a mercy mission (= a journey to help people) in the war zone.: 部队出发救助战区民众。

It's a mercy she wasn't seriously hurt.: 幸运的是她伤势不重。

I'm not going to put myself at the mercy of the bank.: 我不想任由银行摆布。

We were at the mercy of the weather.: 我们受制于天气。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

He's going to throw himself on the mercy of the court.: 他准备听凭法庭发落。

I will show no mercy to [ on ] him.: 我决不对他行善.

Please use the overpass to cross the street.: 过马路请走天桥.

The murderer's entreaties for mercy availed to nothing.: 无人理会杀人犯的求饶.

That is a mercy!: 那真是幸运!

She went down on her knees, pleading for mercy.: 她双膝跪下, 乞求谅解.

Mercy to the enemies means cruelty to the people.: 对敌人的仁慈就意味着对人民的残忍.

We do pray you to show mercy.: 我们恳求你发发慈悲.

It's a mercy the accident happened so close to the hospital.: 幸亏车祸发生在离医院很近的地方.

We try to strike a balance between justice and mercy.: 我们设法做到宽严并济,恩威兼施.

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