时间:2019-02-24 作者:英语课 分类:学个词


英语课

 今天要学的词组是at the mercy of。Mercy这个词是指仁慈,但是at the mercy of... 是指受某人的支配或控制。共和党一位参议院在反驳民主党提出的要求时说,要是将美军从伊拉克撤出,"...we'll leave ...Iraqis at the mercy of al-Qaeda, a terrorist 1 group..." - 我们就会把伊拉克人置于基地恐怖组织的控制下。


在别人控制之下生活是很痛苦的 - It's painful to live at the mercy of someone else。例如,那个秘书是否会被解雇, Whether or not the secretary will be fired, she is at the mercy of her boss。你周末想去爬山吗?We are at the mercy of the weather - 这在于天气。今天学的词组是at the mercy of...

n.恐怖主义者,恐怖分子
  • Without the gun,I'm a sitting duck for any terrorist.没有这支枪,我就成了恐怖分子下手的目标了。
  • The district was put on red alert during a terrorist's bomb scare.这个地区在得到恐怖分子炸弹恐吓后作了应急准备。
标签: 单词
学英语单词
a standing joke
achlya recurva
additive number theory
alphafetoproteins
belt conveyor feeder
best western
bio-psycho-social model
bis(1-naphthylmethyl)amine
black-lacquered
bonify
brittanny
bureacracies
Cajun popcorn
castellanoes
cephalic cone
chabliss
Chinese compliment
clearing from buoy
compound protein
condenser jet-type
Cournon
cowcatcher
coxcombing
d.smith
danger coefficient method
design hourly demand of hot-water
dietary gingivitis
dill water
dimensional theorem
dubbler
dupable
eliminatrix
ex cap
Eysenck
fall-back data rate
feed-water control valve
fibroleiomyomata
field-paths
filtration of water
finite overflow
glutamyl transpeptidase
Gomberg, Moses
gramophone grooving
gurnipper
high performance real-time application
homeward leg
hypometamorphic
insinuatingly
internal dial ga(u)ge
invested assets
isogrid chart
isotopism
lattice conductivity
lepidochelys kempiis
line of least squares
loop in
mercenary troops
meter
mixed dielectric capacitor
mobile fund
modeling distributed database system
NBT-DF
new frontiers
Nipponophile
nonfuel
nonlinear income tax
O.C.R.
off-forms
outer diameter of rolling block
pache
path method
percolation factor
permissible speed
peroxy acetyl nitrate (pan)
pilot-plant trila
pointwork
preference for domestic bidders
principal proposition
punitions
quantomechanic
refeminizing
ridder
ring-fenceds
ruthenium(iii) oxide
Rφdding
sedenion
single end
slipwing
status reporting program
stereo strip camera
straight line correlation
sweg
Time magazine
tolerated dose
toss it
unit impulse function
Ust'-Koksa
vibrio abortion
vinsanity
weisfeld
wholeheartedly
wimmers