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。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If we were alone, and you would leave that noble horse at the mercy of the wolves to-night, I could show you the way to Edward my-self, within an hour, for it lies only about an hour's journey hence; but with such ladies in your company 'tis impossi-ble!'
-- Glancing his eyes around, with a vain effort to pierce the gloom that was thickening beneath the leafy arches of the forest, he felt as if, cut off from human aid, his unresisting companions would soon lie at the entire mercy of those barbarous enemies, who, like beasts of prey, only waited till the gathering darkness might render their blows more fatally certain.
-- If you speak again, I shall leave you to the mercy of the Maquas!Draw to your arrow's head, Uncas; we have no time for second blows.'
-- echoed the fierce Huron, mistaking in his an-ger, the meaning of her words; 'the memory of an Indian is no longer than the arm of the pale faces; his mercy shorter than their justice!Say; shall I send the yellow hair to her fa-ther, and will you follow Magua to the great lakes, to carry his water, and feed him with corn?'
-- 'Ah!thou tyrant!thou recreant knight!he who abandons his damsels in the very lists,' she cried; 'here have we been days, nay, ages, expecting you at our feet, imploring mercy and forgetfulness of your craven backsliding, or I should rather say, backrunning for verily you fled in the manner that no stricken deer, as our worthy friend the scout would say, could equal!'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Have mercy on her," he implored him.
-- Panting a little in his haste, he told her how miserable he was; he besought her to have mercy on him; he promised, if she would forgive him, to do everything she wanted.
-- It is a mercy when it runs its course quickly."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The vast liquid plain, lashed without mercy by the storm, appeared as if covered with herds of furious chargers, whose white and disheveled crests were streaming in the wind.
-- They must trust to the mercy of Him who rules the elements.
-- Thus five determined persons were about to abandon themselves to the mercy of the tempestuous elements!
-- Herbert and Pencroft the one young and the other very boyish were enchanted, and while walking, the sailor said, "Hey, Herbert!how capital it sounds!It will be impossible to lose ourselves, my boy, since, whether we follow the way to Lake Grant, or whether we join the Mercy through the woods of the Far West, we shall be certain to arrive at Prospect Heights, and, consequently, at Union Bay!"
-- The best would evidently have been the shore exposed directly to the south; but the Mercy would have to be crossed, and that was a difficulty.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh, my dear,' rejoined Miss Cheggs in the same whisper as before, 'I've been so tormented, so worried, that it's a mercy we were not here at four o'clock in the afternoon.
-- Be a just man, Sir, and, as you have had mercy upon this boy, give me back my son!'
-- When he comes to be tried, I shall be very happy to recommend him to mercy on account of his previous good character.
-- I will not say to you that we suggest this course in mercy (for, to tell you the truth, we do not entertain any regard for you), but it is a necessity to which we are reduced, and I recommend it to you as a matter of the very best policy.
-- Under the porch, where she had sat when Heaven in its mercy brought her to that peaceful spot, she passed again; and the old church received her in its quiet shade.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fourth question, relating to Bochkova, was answered "Guilty," but at the insistence of the laborer, she was recommended to the mercy of the court.
-- "And we recommend her to the mercy of the court," added the merchant.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her electric apparatus remained inactive and her motionless screw left her to drift at the mercy of the currents.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Surely," Halliday intoned, "'surely goodness and mercy hath followed me all the days of my life '" he broke off and giggled.
-- "My God, what a mercy I am not married to you!"
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Have mercy on this unfortunate boy, if you care nothing for yourself!
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