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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would be as hard to convince me that if I was to pass into the other world to-morrow, I should not, through the mercy of God, be received there by a daughter, just like Pet, as to persuade me that Pet herself is not a reality at my side.'
-- 'My faith!If your philosophical philanthropy,' said the landlady, putting down her work, and rising to take the stranger's soup from her husband, who appeared with it at a side door, 'puts anybody at the mercy of such people by holding terms with them at all, in words or deeds, or both, take it away from the Break of Day, for it isn't worth a sou.'
-- Little Dorrit had a misgiving that he might blame her father, if he saw them; that he might think, 'why did he dine to-day, and leave this little creature to the mercy of the cold stones!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's a mercy you didn't , Mother!'
-- 'Mercy on us!What has happened?'
-- There's Laurie, looking like a sailor, nice boy!Oh, mercy me!Here's a carriage full of people, a tall lady, a little girl, and two dreadful boys.
-- 'Mercy me!I don't know anything about love and such nonsense!'
-- Mercy on us, what are the children thinking of?'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "My song for ever shall recordThat terrible, that joyful hour;I give the glory to my God,His all the mercy and the power."
-- All our arguing with him would not avail; let him be, I say: and Heaven have mercy on us all Presbyterians and Pagans alike for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
-- white whale, shirr!shirr!Here have I heard all their chat just now, and the white whale shirr!shirr! but spoken of once!and only this evening it makes me jingle all over like my tambourine that anaconda of an old man swore 'em in to hunt him!Oh, thou big white God aloft there somewhere in yon darkness, have mercy on this small black boy down here; preserve him from all men that have no bowels to feel fear!
-- " but slipping backward on the deck, his uplifted eyes caught the flames; and immediately shifting his tone he cried "The corpusants have mercy on us all!"
-- "No, no, it wasn't; I said the corpusants have mercy on us all; and I hope they will, still.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER III RELATES HOW OLIVER TWIST WAS VERY NEAR GETTING A PLACE WHICH WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A SINECURE For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room to which he h ad been consigned by the wisdom and mercy of the board.
-- 'Oh!Charlotte, what a mercy we have not all been murdered in our beds !'
-- Have mercy upon a poor boy, sir!'
-- He had had a fever six times; he wasn't recommended to mercy on that account.
-- Oh, do have mercy upon me, and send them back!'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I was to have another trial for it still; and Providence, as in such cases generally it does, resolved to leave me entirely without excuse; for if I would not take this for a deliverance, the next was to be such a one as the worst and most hardened wretch among us would confess both the danger and the mercy of.
-- In this distress the mate of our vessel laid hold of the boat, and with the help of the rest of the men got her slung over the ship's side; and getting all into her, let go, and com-mitted ourselves, being eleven in number, to God's mercy and the wild sea; for though the storm was abated consid-erably, yet the sea ran dreadfully high upon the shore, and might be well called DEN WILD ZEE, as the Dutch call the sea in a storm.
-- All this while I had not the least serious religious thought; nothing but the common 'Lord have mercy upon me!'
-- Prayed to God again, but was light-headed; and when I was not, I was so ignorant that I knew not what to say; only I lay and cried, 'Lord, look upon me!Lord, pity me!Lord, have mercy upon me!'
-- I kept this day as a solemn fast, setting it apart for religious exercise, prostrating myself on the ground with the most serious humiliation, confessing my sins to God, acknowl-edging His righteous judgments upon me, and praying to Him to have mercy on me through Jesus Christ; and not having tasted the least refreshment for twelve hours, even till the going down of the sun, I then ate a biscuit-cake and a bunch of grapes, and went to bed, finishing the day as I began it.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elinor could not help smiling at this display of indifference towards the manners of a person, to whom she had often had difficulty in persuading Marianne to behave with tolerable politeness; and resolved within herself, that if her sister persisted in going, she would go likewise, as she did not think it proper that Marianne should be left to the sole guidance of her own judgment, or that Mrs. Jennings should be abandoned to the mercy of Marianne for all the comfort of her domestic hours.
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