| 词汇 | merciful |
| 释义 | merciful adjective approvinguk /ˈmɜː.sɪ.fəl/ us /ˈmɝː.sɪ.fəl/ mercifuladjective (PERSON)C2 someone who is merciful is willing to be kind to and forgive people who are in their power: 宽大的;慈悲的，仁慈的 "God is merciful," said the priest.“上帝是仁慈的，”神父说道。 a merciful ruler仁慈的统治者 Lenient & merciful charitable charitably charity clemency ease ease up/off easy go easyidiom have a heart!idiom heart leniency lenient magnanimous magnanimously mercy quarter squishy mercifuladjective (EVENT/SITUATION)used to say that you are grateful for an event or situation because it stops something unpleasant: 令人解脱的；使人松一口气的 After such a long illness, her death came as a merciful release.经受了如此漫长的病痛折磨之后，她的死算是一种幸运的解脱。 Good luck and bad luck align bad/hard/tough luck!idiom be bad luck on someoneidiom be down on your luckidiom be in/out of luckidiom blessing fortune cookie fortune smiles on someoneidiom get the short end of the stickidiom godsend grace mercifully mercy miracle misadventure mischance streak voodoo with any luckidiom your luck's in!idiom Related wordmercifully merciful | American Dictionarymerciful adjective us/ˈmɜr·sɪ·fəl/ kind and forgiving: Judges are sometimes more merciful than a jury. Examples of mercifulmerciful Not 'for the chamber full of diamonds ' would he gamble his enterprise against a single, merciful warning. The mere fact that there have been no accidents due to interference, whilst it is, of course, a merciful matter, is no test at all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why are we more merciful to our four-footed friends than we are to humans? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In nearly all other countries that principle, that merciful and just principle, was accepted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Obviously it must be merciful, it must be really efficient, it must be reasonably cheap and, most of all, it must be portable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let me give just one example by way of a question: is public policy merciful to widows and orphans? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We all hope that men are better, wiser, more merciful than they were 10,000 years ago. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think women are more merciful than men. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If somebody refuses to co-operate in keeping the highway clear, surely the merciful preventive provisions of this paragraph of subsection (3) should come into operation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Often a jury is seen to return some extraordinary merciful verdicts, out of fellow feeling. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We want to be as merciful with one another as we are to our own animals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To a humane man the inclination to administer the merciful dose is often almost—not infrequently quite—irresistible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The intentional taking of life, whether at the patient's request or from a merciful motive, is illegal in this country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, there may also come a time when we have to remind ourselves that sanctions are a merciful alternative to war. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If, on the other hand, that slight and merciful sentence is not sufficient, it will be possible for the sheriff to impose a longer sentence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of merciful These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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