名词

1. 仁慈;怜悯;宽恕
If someone in authority shows mercy, they choose not to harm someone they have power over, or they forgive someone they have the right to punish.

2. 慈善的;救援的
Mercy is used to describe a special journey to help someone in great need, such as people who are sick or made homeless by war.

3. 幸运;侥幸
If you refer to an event or situation as a mercy, you mean that it makes you feel happy or relieved, usually because it stops something unpleasant happening.

4. 完全由…支配;任由…摆布
If one person or thing is at the mercy of another, the first person or thing is in a situation where they cannot prevent themselves being harmed or affected by the second.

5. 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 be grateful or thankful for small mercies, you mean that although their situation is bad, it could be even worse, and so they should be happy.

6. 听凭…发落
If you throw yourself on someone's mercy, 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. leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice

e.g. he threw himself on the mercy of the court

Synonym: clemencymercifulness

2. alleviation of distress
showing great kindness toward the distressed

e.g. distributing food and clothing to the flood victims was an act of mercy

3. a disposition to be kind and forgiving

e.g. in those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband

Synonym: mercifulness

4. the feeling that motivates compassion

Synonym: mercifulness

5. something for which to be thankful

e.g. it was a mercy we got out alive