单词 | At the mercy of |
例句 | 1. His life was at the mercy of the king. 2. We were at the mercy of the weather. 3. We're at the mercy of the weather. 4. The enemy were at the mercy of us. 5. Poor people are increasingly at the mercy of money-lenders. 6. Ordinary people are at the mercy of faceless bureaucrats. 7. The poor stationer was at the mercy of those from whom he borrowed money. 8. After the boat's motor failed, they were at the mercy of the weather. 9. I'm not going to put myself at the mercy of the bank. 10. Buildings are left to decay at the mercy of vandals and the weather. 11. He was at the mercy of the ebb and flow of public opinion. 12. We are at the mercy of our own detachment. 13. You are at the mercy of the man upstairs. 13. is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words. 14. You aren't simply at the mercy of restaurateurs. 15. I was at the mercy of the angels. 16. Every man lives at the mercy of his inner self - his character - that is the master of his destiny. A positive character gives birth to a good destiny, while a negative character produces a bad destiny. Dr T.P.Chia 17. At the mercy of this resentment, this hateful millstone envy of the Calibans of this world. 18. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them. Oscar Wilde 19. At the mercy of wild animals and insects and snakes and goodness knows what horrors! 20. Until it was developed, prawn hatcheries would remain at the mercy of factors beyond their control. 21. Ten miles straight up, at the mercy of bears, leopards and tigers. 22. But like Jim, she soon found herself at the mercy of events. 23. He says you're at the mercy of the elements and you just go where the weather takes you. 24. People who need a place to live can often find themselves at the mercy of local property sharks. 25. That has left the impression that trade policy is at the mercy of adhoc decision-making by a variety of officials. 26. Britain faced the prospect of a winter without food and without energy, at the mercy of powerful unions and ineffective employers. 27. Once again Oliver is separated from his friends and left at the mercy of strangers. 28. Lily was humanity bound to duty, unable to choose, suffering, at the mercy of social ideals. 29. The jester in Notker's story conveys the anxiety of men at the mercy of the king's will. 30. In this country we can count our blessings that our children are not constantly at the mercy of these diseases. 1. His life was at the mercy of the king. 31. No industrialist liked to put himself at the mercy of creditors. 32. You would be at the mercy of the hall's acoustics and ideally you would need to practise a bit beforehand. 33. They are putting lives at risk, and the ones who pay are us, here at the mercy of the government. 34. An older historiographical tradition depicted Louis as an impulsive weakling, at the mercy of his overbearing wife. 35. Without the anchor of personal conviction they are at the mercy of every ebb and flow of opinion. 36. Even compassion for a man so much at the mercy of his physical urges. 37. In such a situation the worker is at the mercy of the capitalist and is therefore exploited. 38. The typical peasant farmer has a precarious existence, at the mercy of flood, disease and famine. 39. With that relationship gone, they are at the mercy of more laws and more political meddling. 40. His whole life was lived at the mercy of the second favourite planet. 41. Any city manager accepts the fact that he or she is at the mercy of the council majority, he said. 42. Putting him at the mercy of men like you, Creller? 43. Having lost engine power, the boat's crew found themselves at the mercy of the wind. 44. Without this, a person is completely at the mercy of the dangers that menace from without. 45. Their innermost secrets had been at the mercy of the West for a year. 46. With monarchy, the essential problem is that power is put at the mercy of relatives and genetics. 47. We all live at the mercy of our emotions. Our motions influence and shape our desires, thoughts and behaviors and above all our destiny. Dr T.P.Chia 48. "We are all at the mercy of a falling tile, " Julius Caesar reminds us in Thornton Wilder's Ides of March. 49. The vessels were tossed hither and thither at the mercy of the winds and waves. 50. It's easy to feel at the mercy of my work, my clients and even the self-imposed pressure that I feel to deliver value. 51. You don't forget such episodes—the truly innocent at the mercy of the truly evil—and they lead directly into the absolutist morals of Larsson's books, which may also be a powerful selling point. 52. Any company that makes only small cars is at the mercy of fluctuating gas prices. 53. In a proprietary system the end user is at the mercy of product life cycle. 54. In recent years more than ever immigrants who enter America illegally are at the mercy of smugglers , and many die in boxcars or ships before arriving here. 55. "Man I love Twitter ... I've always been at the mercy of the press but no more ... The media tried to demonize me, " he tweeted Saturday. 56. While that evaluation isn't generally true, our story from 2 Kings supports the negative stereotype. A poor widow is at the mercy of a loan shark who takes advantage of her vulnerability. 57. This fits the desire to portray English fans as the victims, forever at the mercy of unscrupulous foreign justice systems and brutal, fascistic policemen. 58. When Japan entered Formosa she found the coast at the mercy of pirates. 59. A mere three decades after the end of the Peloponnesian War, a Theban army under Epaminondas crushed the Spartans, but Greece was so weakened that it lay at the mercy of Persia and the Macedonians. 60. "Douce David Deans" was routed horse and foot, and lay at the mercy of his grasping landlord just at the time that Benjamin Bulter died. 61. Furthermore, you are at the mercy of the developers -- if no trace statement was inserted at a point you need, tracing is of no help to you. 62. Yet freedom from restraint simply put it at the mercy of an unsympathetic breeze. It fluttered ungracefully to the ground and landed in a tangled mass of weeds and string against a dead bush. 63. But it needs export markets to stay vibrant at a time when its import bill is at the mercy of commodity prices. 64. The whole world was at a complete standstill, and I was in fetters, at the mercy of the mob. 65. |
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