mercy

1. N-UNCOUNT If someone in authority shows mercy, they choose not to harm someone they have power over, or they forgive someone they have the right to punish. 仁慈; 寬恕

Neither side took prisoners or showed any mercy. 雙方都沒有抓俘虜，也沒有表現(xiàn)出絲毫的仁慈。

2. ADJ Mercy is used to describe a special journey to help someone in great need, such as people who are sick or made homeless by war. 善行[journalism] [ADJ n]

She vanished nine months ago while on a mercy mission to West Africa. 她在9個月前去西非的慈善之旅中消失不見了。

3. N-COUNT If you refer to an event or a situation as a mercy, you mean that it makes you feel happy or relieved, usually because it stops something unpleasant from happening. 幸運

It really was a mercy that he'd gone so rapidly at the end. 這真幸運，他最後走得那麼快。

4. PHRASE If one person or thing is at the mercy of another, the first person or thing is in a situation where they cannot prevent themselves from being harmed or affected by the second. 完全由…支配

Buildings are left to decay at the mercy of vandals and the weather. 這些建築物因人爲(wèi)的肆意破壞和日曬雨淋而破敗不堪。