mercy是什么意思_mercy怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

mercy: mercy: [12] Latin mercēs meant ‘payment, reward’. In the Christian era the notion of a ‘reward’ was taken up and reapplied metaphorically to the ‘compassion given freely by God to humankind’, and the word passed into Old French (in the form merci) with the broader sense ‘compassion’, and hence ‘forbearance from punishment’. English took it over and has continued to use it in much the same way, but its main role in modern French is as the word for ‘thank you’.
mercy (n.): late 12c., "God"s forgiveness of his creatures" offenses," from Old French mercit, merci (9c.) "reward, gift; kindness, grace, pity," from Latin mercedem (nominative merces) "reward, wages, pay hire" (in Vulgar Latin "favor, pity"), from merx (genitive mercis) "wares, merchandise" (see market (n.)). In Church Latin (6c.) applied to the heavenly reward of those who show kindness to the helpless.

Meaning "disposition to forgive or show compassion" is attested from early 13c. As an interjection, attested from mid-13c. In French largely superseded by miséricorde except as a word of thanks. Seat of mercy "golden covering of the Ark of the Covenant" (1530) is Tyndale"s loan-translation of Luther"s gnadenstuhl, an inexact rendering of Hebrew kapporeth, literally "propitiatory."

词态变化

复数 mercies;

2. Ordinary people are at the mercy of faceless bureaucrats.: 普通人的命运任凭那些平庸刻板的官僚们摆布。

3. They meant to finish her off, swiftly and without mercy.: 他们打算毫不留情地迅速结果了她。

5. Kelly prayed that God would judge her with mercy.: 凯莉祈求在接受最后的审判时能得到上帝的怜悯。

humanness

kindness

pity

sympathy

at the mercy of 受制于,在…的掌管中,任…摆布

mercy seat n. 约柜之金盖(被视为上帝休息的地方), 上帝的御座

appeal for mercy 【法】请求从宽, 诉请宽刑

beg for mercy 乞求宽大, 讨饶, 乞怜

petition for mercy 【法】请求赦免

supplicate for mercy 乞求怜悯, 求饶

mercy killing n.安乐死术,无痛苦致死术

works of mercy 慈善事业

take mercy on 对...表示怜悯

sisters of mercy n. 慈善修女会会员

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1. 神仙拿着花来 c‐see y‐you.