时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语每日一词


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。
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Abram-men
abscondment
agreement on
allenylphosphonate
alsaud
analytical graphics
autoecic
back-space control
Barrel connector
be strong on something
bioeroding
bisdehydromarrianolic acid
bottom ramming machine
brainfart
c-wing
call girls
catch a chill
ceratophytes
communication zone
conceat
corraling
de die ad diem
decapsulated
deficit covering financing
dendritic evolution
dose-response function
drums into
endowry
epidemic-pleurodynia
epigenetic concretion
financial controller
five finger exercise
flash upset welding
geochemical face
girder casing
hask
high frequency induction furnace
hiking trails
illicit recording
include war
internal combustion railcar
irrepassable
kama sutra (india)
Kokwa
Lantern Festival
lay emphasis upon
lithotomize
magnetic overprinting
mainers
Mandibulata
maximum drilling string load
mehri
mexicanos
microchemotaxis
midas touches
miscreantly
most-favo(u)red licence clause
musculi obliquus capitis superior
neat's foot
net arrived value
nickel steels
old myocardial infarction
orthorhombic hemimorphic-hemihedral
ostium arteriosum sinistrum
Polygala subopposita
polysomnography
post-alloy-deffused phototransistor
pregeijerene
Psor-Set
rabbing surface
ramosest
re-surfacings
record form descriptor
ringland
Schmidt correction plate
screed-coat
scrutinous
secondary production
self-propelled barrack ship
semi-centrifugal clutch
similarities and differences
sodium acid phosphate
soothsays
speed receiver
spiral cavity mold
spray rod
stained clay
Standard-forest
syr-
talks past
tendon and muscle
thizzes
three-layer resistivity model
time-span
toto
trailing section loss
urodynamicss
vaccinocidin
work-study programs
woroniecki
writing
zoonist