| 单词 | at the mercy of somebody/something |
| 释义 | at the mercy of somebody/somethingat the mercy of somebody/something CONTROLunable to do anything to protect yourself from someone or something 任凭某人/某物的摆布〔而无力保护自己〕 After the boat’s motor failed, they were at the mercy of the weather. 船的马达坏了，他们只能听命于天气了。 She was completely at his mercy. 她完全听任他的摆布。 Examples from the Corpus at the mercy of somebody/something• With that relationship gone, they are at the mercy of more laws and more political meddling.• You are at the mercy of the man upstairs.• But like Jim, she soon found herself at the mercy of events.• Putting him at the mercy of men like you, Creller?• Once again Oliver is separated from his friends and left at the mercy of strangers.• Even compassion for a man so much at the mercy of his physical urges.• With monarchy, the essential problem is that power is put at the mercy of relatives and genetics.• He says you're at the mercy of the elements and you just go where the weather takes you.• Having lost engine power, the boat's crew found themselves at the mercy of the wind.• Ten miles straight up, at the mercy of bears, leopards and tigers. → at the mercy of somebody/something at mercy(1) |
| 随便看 |
英汉双解词典包含283110条英汉词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。