喜樂美語
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    Merciful means showing mercy — being kind and forgiving to someone you have power over, instead of punishing them as as you could. It's also used for something painful ending quickly, which people see as a small blessing — 'a merciful death' means one that ended suffering fast.

    仁慈的、慈悲的

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組成'Mercy' + '-ful' (full of).

同家族的字

  • mercythe base word
  • mercilessthe same base word, with '-less' added, meaning without mercy

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

mercifuladj/ˈmɜː.sɪ.fl̩/

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    Showing mercy.

    • `Listen, Holly. Thou art a good and honest man, and I fain would spare thee; but, oh! it is so hard for woman to be merciful.'
    • The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。