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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I will be more merciful than ye are.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it is a comfort to know we serve a merciful Master, though we do it each after his fashion, and with great tracts of wilderness atween us what goes there?'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A pleasant, hospitable woman, with a harmless craze for the small lions of literary society; a rather dull man, doing his duty in that state of life in which a merciful Providence had placed him; two nice-looking, healthy children.
-- I hoped that the grief which now seemed intolerable would be softened by the lapse of time, and a merciful forgetfulness would help him to take up once more the burden of life.
-- There are men whom a merciful Providence has undoubtedly ordained to a single life, but who from wilfulness or through circumstances they could not cope with have flown in the face of its decrees.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'God be merciful to us!'
-- But her musings did not stop here, for she was wise enough to think that by a good and merciful adjustment this must be human nature, and that the old sexton, with his plans for next summer, was but a type of all mankind.
-- In like manner, when the aforesaid antiquaries did argue and contend that a certain secret vault was not the tomb of a grey-haired lady who had been hanged and drawn and quartered by glorious Queen Bess for succouring a wretched priest who fainted of thirst and hunger at her door, the bachelor did solemnly maintain, against all comers, that the church was hallowed by the said poor lady's ashes; that her remains had been collected in the night from four of the city's gates, and thither in secret brought, and there deposited; and the bachelor did further (being highly excited at such times) deny the glory of Queen Bess, and assert the immeasurably greater glory of the meanest woman in her realm, who had a merciful and tender heart.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But they continued to call us by name and appeal to us, for God's sake, to be merciful and not leave them to die in such a place.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, in the tones of the voice that read to him, there were memories of an old feeling of such things, and echoes of every merciful and loving whisper that had ever stolen to him in his life.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Lord be merciful to his ghost!What's that noise there?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The suspicious circumstances, however, resolving themselves, on investigation, into the one fact, that they had been discovered sleeping under a haystack; which, although a great crime, is only punishable by imprisonment, and is, in the merciful eye of the English law, and its comprehensive love of all the King's subjects, held to be no satisfactory proof, in the absence of all other evidence, that the sleeper, or sleepers, have committed burglary accompanied with violence, and have therefore rendered themselves liable to the punishment of death; Messrs. Blathers and Duff came back again, as wise as they went.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The master, though vigilant in the business of preserving the ship, yet as he went in and out of his cabin by me, I could hear him softly to himself say, sev-eral times, 'Lord be merciful to us!we shall be all lost!we shall be all undone!'
-- It is true, when I got on shore first here, and found all my ship's crew drowned and myself spared, I was surprised with a kind of ecstasy, and some transports of soul, which, had the grace of God assisted, might have come up to true thankfulness; but it ended where it began, in a mere com-mon flight of joy, or, as I may say, being glad I was alive, without the least reflection upon the distinguished good-ness of the hand which had preserved me, and had singled me out to be preserved when all the rest were destroyed, or an inquiry why Providence had been thus merciful unto me.
-- This renewed a contemplation which often had come into my thoughts in former times, when first I began to see the merciful disposi-tions of Heaven, in the dangers we run through in this life; how wonderfully we are delivered when we know nothing of it; how, when we are in a quandary as we call it, a doubt or hesitation whether to go this way or that way, a secret hint shall direct us this way, when we intended to go that way: nay, when sense, our own inclination, and perhaps business has called us to go the other way, yet a strange impression upon the mind, from we know not what springs, and by we know not what power, shall overrule us to go this way; and it shall afterwards appear that had we gone that way, which we should have gone, and even to our imagination ought to have gone, we should have been ruined and lost.
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