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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The yacht had risen once more, but she found herself at the mercy of the waves entirely now, with nothing to steady or direct her, and was so fearfully pitched and tossed about that every moment the captain expected the masts would break short off.
-- "Do you want to have us killed one by one to diminish our force, and put us at the mercy of these wretches?
-- Can I leave my crew to the mercy of Ben Joyce and his gang?"
-- "Yes, my Lord; we should try in vain!We should be taken, delivered up to the mercy of those wretches, and Ben Joyce has shown us that he does not stop at a crime!Our lives would be worth little.
-- But he decided that further delay was not to be thought of, and an ax-blow committed the raft to the mercy of the wind, assisted by a current of two knots an hour.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From crime to crime he sank lower and lower, until it is only the mercy of God which has snatched him from the scaf-fold; but to me, sir, he was always the little curly-headed boy that I had nursed and played with, as an elder sister would.
-- We shall take him by surprise and have him at our mercy before he can resist.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There you will be comfortable and well taken care of; for I do not think, prince, that you are the sort of man to be left to the mercy of Fate in a town like Petersburg.
-- said he, 'picture this unhappy man, crippled by age and infirmities, who gains his living by honourable toil picture him, I repeat, robbed of his all, of his last mouthful; remember, I entreat you, the words of that learned legislator, 'Let mercy and justice alike rule the courts of law.'
-- And what does it matter to you, little worm, if I implored the Divine mercy for her, great sinner as she was, as I said my evening prayer?
-- He continued these acts of mercy up to his very death; and by that time all the criminals, all over Russia and Siberia, knew him!
-- By Jove!it was positively a mercy that he died when he did it was indeed everyone said so at the time.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A man chafes at having to stay away from his wife even for a single month, when he is on shipboard, at the mercy of wind and sea, but it is now nine long years that we have been kept here; I cannot, therefore, blame the Achaeans if they turn restive; still we shall be shamed if we go home empty after so long a stay therefore, my friends, be patient yet a little longer that we may learn whether the prophesyings of Calchas were false or true.
-- Nay Hector you who to me are father, mother, brother, and dear husband have mercy upon me; stay here upon this wall; make not your child fatherless, and your wife a widow; as for the host, place them near the fig-tree, where the city can be best scaled, and the wall is weakest.
-- Now bring water for our hands, and bid all keep silence while we pray to Jove the son of Saturn, if so be that he may have mercy upon us.'
-- And Priam answered, 'Wife, I will do as you desire me; it is well to lift hands in prayer to Jove, if so be he may have mercy upon me.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wretched thing was injured so dreadfully that in mercy I blew its brains out at once.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Akela, the grim old wolf who had never asked for mercy in his life, gave one piteous look at Mowgli as the boy stood all naked, his long black hair tossing over his shoulders in the light of the blazing branch that made the shadows jump and quiver.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But while the imaginations of other people will carry them away to form wrong judgments of our conduct, and to decide on it by slight appearances, one's happiness must in some measure be always at the mercy of chance.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I lost you," he said, seizing her little hand, "and I was at the mercy of any flirt who chose to give me an inviting look.
-- One was a convent mission- house of the Sisters of Mercy in Fifteenth Street--a row of red brick family dwellings, before the door of which hung a plain wooden contribution box, on which was painted the statement that every noon a meal was given free to all those who might apply and ask for aid.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I beg for mercy for my poor friend, Harlequin, who has never done the least harm in his life."
-- "There is no mercy here, Pinocchio.
-- "Have mercy on us!"
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