MERCY

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Traducere în limba română

mercy substantiv

1. milă, milostenie, mizericordie, caritate.

2. compătimire.

3. milă, îndurare, cruţare, iertare, graţiere, mizericordie, clemenţă, graţie;

for mercy’s sake de milă;

to beg / to cry for mercy a cere îndurare, a implora milă;

to have mercy upon a se îndura de;

mercy on us! Doamne, Dumnezeule! măi să fie!

4. discreţie, voie;

to be / to lie at the mercy of a fi la discreţia (cu gen.)

5. favoare, binefacere; noroc,;şansă; binecuvântare;

that's a mercy! e un adevărat noroc, e o adevărată binefacere;

thankful for small mercies mulţumit cu puţin;

(glumeţ) left to the tender mercies of lăsat în grija/ pe mâna (unei persoane care probabil nu-l va menaja ).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

What mercy he shall get from us will not count for much.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Oh, for mercy's sake, tell uncle that I never loved him half so dear as now.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Lord have mercy on us! cried the father; is that all you have learnt?

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

I would consent to be at your mercy, Jane.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

They have no mercy on her.”

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

"It's a mercy you didn't, Mother!" laughed Jo, looking at her boots.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

But while the imaginations of other people will carry them away to form wrong judgments of our conduct, and to decide on it by slight appearances, one's happiness must in some measure be always at the mercy of chance.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

I implored his mercy.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It is a mercy that you are on the side of the force, and not against it, Mr. Holmes,” remarked the inspector, as he noted the clever way in which my friend had forced back the catch.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Oh, have some mercy on me!” cried Emily.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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