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词汇 mercifully
释义 mercifully
adverb
 approvinguk /ˈmɜː.sɪ.fəl.i/ us /ˈmɝː.sɪ.fəl.i/
in a way that makes you grateful because it stops something unpleasant: 宽大地;慈悲地,仁慈地
His suffering was mercifully brief.幸运的是,他的痛苦很短暂。
The tombs are among the finest in the country, and mercifully free of tourists.
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He died last month, aged 91, after a mercifully short illness.
I mercifully don't have to work for financial reasons - I just work on things that I believe in.
Mercifully, the country's economy is not only under control but booming.
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mercifully | American Dictionary


mercifully
adverb
us/ˈmɜr·sɪ·fli, -fə·li/
luckily:
His speech was mercifully brief.

Examples of mercifully


mercifully
Perhaps mercifully neither are there fingernails to provide false comfort.
Mercifully, this idea was abandoned after the overture.
We are glad to say that though terribly severe while it lasted, its duration was mercifully short.
Mercifully, the 'age of uncertainty' has provided some possibilities for healing.
On the whole, this is a lucid, tightly argued volume, mercifully free of needless jargon.
The eye of a working architect keeps the book mercifully free of the constructionally ignorant theorizing that now characterizes much current architectural writing.
Mercifully, all is not doom and gloom.
Mercifully, we do not suffer from some of the problems and tensions that have been seen in other parts of the country.
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Terrible though that is, to keep the matter in proportion we must bear in mind that primary outbreaks in this country are mercifully rare.
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There is no form of more dangerous combat activity and, mercifully, it is unlikely to happen in this country.
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Since, mercifully, the proportion of these unhappy children to the whole population is small, a small authority will not have many of them.
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Mercifully there are at last signs that employers are beginning to face the demographic facts of life.
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I assume that their staff will not be allowed in because, mercifully, the motion does not cover them.
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I am assured that there are cases— mercifully few—in which withdrawal from a family is beneficial for a child.
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Mercifully, the current regime could allow for this period of transition.
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