at the mercy of
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英 
- na.完全受…支配
- 網絡在…支配下;完全受...支配;任由…擺布
英漢解釋
na. | 1. 完全受...支配,任由...擺布,在...掌握中 |
英英解釋
例句
India seems to forget that its water supply for agriculture, industry and life is at the mercy of China.
印度似乎忘記自己的農業、工業和生活用水掌握在中國手里。
But I was sick and tried of being a tenant at the mercy of landlords. So I threw my hands up and said: the hell with it.
可我對做一個受房東們任意擺布的房客煩死了。于是我舉起雙手說道:讓它見鬼去吧!
This means that your self-esteem is always at the mercy of others, with no appreciation of you as an individual.
而這意味著你的自尊總是受他人支配,和是否欣賞你這個人并無關系。
Previously, this was a time-consuming process in which the applicant was at the mercy of government decision makers.
以前,這是一個非常耗時的過程,申請人完全受制于政府決策者。
In the park, I saw a little boy holding a kite. The kite was up and down overhead at the mercy of the wind.
在公園里,我看見一個小男孩手持風箏線,風箏在他的頭頂上隨風擺動,忽上忽下。
The extraction of keywords would have been a manual process, their selection entirely at the mercy of the person performing it.
關鍵字的提取將是一個手動進程,關鍵字的選擇完全取決于執行選擇的人。
But it needs export markets to stay vibrant at a time when its import bill is at the mercy of commodity prices.
但這都需要出在進口單證都依賴于商品價格時,口市場長久地保持活力。
And when it comes to fathering healthy children, older men, it turns out, are just as much at the mercy of their biological clocks as women.
在孕育孩子方面,年歲較長的男性和女性一樣,也受生物鐘的影響,而且受影響的程度和女性相當。
they seized the ship, and put him in a small boat to float at the mercy of the sea.
他們奪了船,把船長放進一條小船,任其在海上漂泊。
Mr Obama says that he refuses to leave seniors "at the mercy of the insurance industry, with a shrinking benefit to pay for rising costs" .
奧巴馬先生說,他決不讓老年人們“任憑保險公司擺布,要支付的醫療費在增長,而保險金卻在縮水”。
He was at the mercy of his own aching needs, and that was as new to him as Nora's soft cries of surprised pleasure were to her.
他是可以控制自己渴望的需求的,勞拉溫柔而快樂的驚叫對他也是新鮮事。
Having lost engine power, the boat's crew found themselves at the mercy of the wind.
在失去引擎動力之后,船員們發現自己只能任憑風力擺布了。
It's easy to feel at the mercy of my work, my clients and even the self-imposed pressure that I feel to deliver value.
工作、客戶,甚至是一些我自己強加的壓力常常輕易地就支配了我的生活。
Whether or not the secretary will be fired is at the mercy of her boss.
這個秘書是否會被解雇完全取決于她的老板。
By the time the end of the year arrived, losses piled up on my pad and my job security was at the mercy of a select few I barely knew.
到年底時,自己組合上的虧損堆積起來,飯碗能否保住,完全要看那幾個我幾乎一無所知的人做出的決定。
And none of this was perfectly predictable, being at the mercy of dozens variables going through the destruction engine.
而所有的這些情況不可能都得到完整的預測,因為這類破壞引擎中有幾十個變量在相互影響。
The whole family was at the mercy of his hands.
全家都在他的支配下。
They were lost at the sea, at the mercy of the wind and weather.
他們在海上迷失了方向,任由風和天氣擺布。
Unfortunately, that boat at the mercy of the wind represented a number of us years later.
不幸地是,隨風向任意擺布的小船時隔多年依然代表了我們許多人;
They have no one to call in times of need difficulty. They are at the mercy of life, standing alone.
他們身處困難卻無人可援,注定是悲慘的生活,孤獨一生。
Our future is entirely within our own control. It is not at the mercy of any capricious or uncertain external power.
我們的未來全然掌握在我們自己手中,而無須聽憑反覆無常的外部力量所擺布。
Mr Bonderman emphasised the extent to which any investor was at the mercy of governments in many emerging markets.
龐德文強調,在許多新興市場,投資者在很大程度上受政府的左右。
The accuracy of scientific observations and calculations is always at the mercy of the scientist's timekeeping methods.
科學觀察和計算的精確度常取決于科學家的計時方法。
Whether or not the secretary will be fired, she is at the mercy of her boss.
那個秘書是否會被解雇取決于她的老板。
During her first voyage to the sea, the breakdown of the ship's engine left her at the mercy of the rough sea.
在第一次出海航行時,由于發動機出現了故障,這艘船在大海中有風浪任意擺布。
For a period of time, they may have seemed to be at the mercy of a conqueror, but.
他們看上去或許會一度受制于征服者,但是。
Continuous innovation, a critical of e-business strategy, is at the mercy of an organization's communication stricture.
不斷地變革電子商務戰略中最關鍵的因素,完全取決于機構的溝通體系。
I'm at the mercy of it all, this life I choose.
被它們支配這是我選擇的生活
As the Pentecostals say, "the man with an experience is never at the mercy of the man with a doctrine. "
正如五旬節派所言:“有過體驗的人永遠不會受只知教條者的支配。”
Lenovo paid generously for its landmark acquisition and is now at the mercy of faltering top-line growth and squeezed profit margins.
當年,聯想為其標志性的收購支付了慷慨的代價,而今,它卻處于營利增長難以保持、利潤率遭到擠壓的窘境。
As the Pentecostals say, "the man with an experience is never at the mercy of the man with a doctrine. "
正如五旬節派所言:“有過體驗的人永遠不會受只知教條者的支配。”
the violent thief is usually at the mercy of an instant emotion .
行兇的強盜通常受一時感情沖動的支配。
Lenovo paid generously for its landmark acquisition and is now at the mercy of faltering top-line growth and squeezed profit margins.
當年,聯想為其標志性的收購支付了慷慨的代價,而今,它卻處于營利增長難以保持、利潤率遭到擠壓的窘境。
In a worst-case scenario, China is at the mercy of the US navy, the world's dominant sea power for the foreseeable future.
最壞情況下,中國將無力對抗美國海軍————在可預見的未來世界海洋的支配性力量。
Byron added, "We're at the mercy of these people, A. J. even more than you and me. "
拜倫接著說:“我們都在這批人的掌握之中,埃倫·杰斯特羅比你我更糟糕。”
Users will no longer be at the mercy of one programmer or company which owns the sources and is in sole position to make changes.
使用者不在需要看某一個擁有原始碼的程式師或公司的臉色—如果只有他們想作些更改的話。
There is no reason to go on through life being at the mercy of uncontrolled thoughts, feelings, anxieties, worries and fears.
沒有任何理由去讓你的人生受到控制不了的想法、感覺、憂慮、煩惱和害怕來左右。
Yet every president is at the mercy of events, and is circumscribed by Congress, especially on domestic policy.
不過,每位總統都會受到形勢的擺布和國會的制約,尤其是在國內政策上。
She was at the mercy of her cruel husband.
她任憑殘酷的丈夫擺布。
But is there not the danger of instability when a turbine of this size is put at the mercy of North Sea gales?
將這么大的風輪機置于北海的大風之中穩定不穩定?。