merciful是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 仁慈的， 宽大的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Merciful Heaven, what is this.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'For my sake, then, be merciful to my husband.
-- 'The gracious and merciful Heavens forbid!'
-- As its silent track in the water disappeared, the prayer 449that had broken up out of his heart for a merciful consid-eration of all his poor blindnesses and errors, ended in the words, 'I am the resurrection and the life.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Merciful God, where am I!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For gracious and merciful art Thou, our Lord, and glory be to Thee, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, now and ever shall be."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Merciful heaven!'
-- Merciful heavens!'
-- Oh, merciful heavens!'
-- The sentence however was more merciful than could have been expected, perhaps partly because the criminal had not tried to justify himself, but had rather shown a desire to exaggerate his guilt.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But there havebeen times since, in my manhood, many times there have been,when I have thought, Is it possible, among the possibilities ofhidden things, that in the sudden rashness of the child and herwild look so far off, there was any merciful attraction of her intodanger, any tempting her towards him permitted on the part ofher dead father, that her life might have a chance of ending thatday.
-- And when the timecomes- may it come soon, if it be His merciful pleasure!- when mydeath shall release her from constraint, I shall close my eyes upon 573her honoured face, with unbounded confidence and love; andleave her, with no sorrow then, to happier and brighter days.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There, 'twas a merciful thing it ended where it did."
-- The prompters were a few merciful men who had perhaps too feelingly considered the facts latterly unearthed, and the result was that evidence was taken which it was hoped might remove the crime in a moral point of view, out of the category of wilful murder, and lead it to be regarded as a sheer outcome of madness.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Be merciful to him, and let us finish our talk to-morrow.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Personally, I think suttee much more merciful thanour charming Southern custom of burying widows alive!"
-- "Mr. Lincoln, the merciful and just, who cries large tears over Mrs. Bixby's five boys, hasn't any tears to shedabout the thousands of Yankees dying at Andersonville," said Rhett, his mouth twisting.
-- Gradually, Scarlett drew courage from the brave faces of her friends and from the merciful adjustment whichnature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mindful, then, of what we had read together, I thought of the two men who went up into the Temple to pray, and I knew there were no better words that I could say beside his bed, than "O Lord, be merciful to him a sinner!"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when she was led in she ate nothing, and said: 'The gracious and merciful God who has supported me in the tower, will soon set me free.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That if his majesty, in consid-eration of your services, and pursuant to his own merciful disposition, would please to spare your life, and only give orders to put out both your eyes, he humbly conceived, that by this expedient justice might in some measure be satisfied, and all the world would applaud the lenity of the emperor, as well as the fair and generous proceedings of those who have the honour to be his counsellors.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And next, for that I know your heart, and am right sure and certain that 'tis far too merciful to let her die, or even so much as suffer, for want of aid.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The great petition that I make to you (there is another which grows out of it), the great supplication that I address to your merciful and gentle heart, is, that you will not disclose this to Arthur until I am dead.
-- ), and you will have thought already that he is as merciful and kind as you, and why do I not trust myself to him as soon as to you.
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