mercy是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 怜悯, 宽恕，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In bare human mercy to a lonely man, don't throw me off now!"
-- It is unmanly to attack a woman so!I have nobody in the world to fight my battles for me; but no mercy is shown.
-- I had some faint belief in the mercy of God till I lost that woman.
-- "Oh that helpless feymels should be at the mercy of such ruffens!"
-- "I looked hard at en, as if I would read his very soul; and there was mercy in his eyes or to speak with the exact truth required of us at this solemn time, in the eye that was towards me."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Unluckily, the widow of the commissary-general to the armies of the Republic had nothing in the world but her jointure and her widow's pension, and some day she might be obliged to leave the helpless, inexperienced girl to the mercy of the world.
-- As a matter of fact, she was as suspicious as a cat; but she was like many other people, who cannot trust their own kin and put themselves at the mercy of the next chance comer--an odd but common phenomenon, whose causes may readily be traced to the depths of the human heart.
-- We show no more mercy to the affection that reveals its utmost extent than we do to another kind of prodigal who has not a penny left.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had determined, if you were going south-wards, still to trust myself to the mercy of the seas rather than abandon my purpose.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Theold and colorful phrases of the litany with its Oriental imagery meant little to them but it satisfied something in theirhearts, and they always swayed when they chanted the responses: "Lord, have mercy on us," "Christ, have mercy onus."
-- Coming home in the dark, he would try, as usual, to jump every fence betweenTwelve Oaks and Tara and, she hoped, by the mercy of Providence and the good sense of his horse, would escapebreaking his neck.
-- But let my beauties be at the mercy of backwoodsmen andCrackers who are used to riding mules!No, sir!I'd have nightmares thinking they were being ridden with saddle gallsand not groomed properly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You know, old chap," said Joe, looking at me, and not at Mrs. Joe, with his bite still in his cheek, "I Bolted, myself, when I was your age--frequent--and as a boy I've been among a many Bolters; but I never see your Bolting equal yet, Pip, and it's a mercy you ain't Bolted dead."
-- Indeed, when I knew her better I began to think it was a Mercy she had any features at all, so very blank and high was the dead wall of her face.
-- And when the verdict come, warn't it Compeyson as was recommended to mercy on account of good character and bad company, and giving up all the information he could agen me, and warn't it me as got never a word but Guilty?
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Ah,' answered he, 'let mercy take the place of justice, I only made up my mind to do it out of necessity.
-- I asked her if my betrothed lived here, and she answered, 'Ah, you poor child, you are come to a murderers' den; your be-trothed does indeed live here, but he will kill you without mercy and afterwards cook and eat you.''
-- 'Lord have mercy on us!'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We therefore trusted ourselves to the mercy of the waves, and in about half an hour the boat was overset by a sudden flurry from the north.
-- I made the captain a very low bow, and then, turning to the Dutchman, said, 'I was sorry to find more mercy in a heathen, than in a brother christian.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And there we were alone, far down in the bowels of the earth, at the mercy of its ferocious inhabitants!
-- "Yes, Harry, my boy, there is certainly something providential in that wandering at the mercy of wind and waves towards the south: we have come back exactly north; and what is better still, we fall upon this great discovery of Cape Saknussemm.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's a mercy she had a sister to come and help her.
-- 'Ay, ma'am!It's a mercy there's a few men left like me.
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