"at the mercy of" meaning in All languages combined

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Prepositional phrase [英语]

Audio: en-au-at the mercy of.ogg
  1. 任凭...处置的,对...束手无策的 Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: zh-at_the_mercy_of-en-prep_phrase-xskW2GAF Categories (other): 英語俗語
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): 英語介詞短語, 英語詞元

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          "ref": "1897年 12月(標示為1898年), Winston Churchill, 章號 1, 出自 The Celebrity: An Episode, 紐約: The Macmillan Company;倫敦:Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:",
          "text": "The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator."
        },
        {
          "text": "The ball game is scheduled for Saturday, but we're still at the mercy of the weather.",
          "translation": "球赛定在周六,但是还是得看天气。"
        }
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        "任凭...处置的,对...束手无策的"
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          "ref": "1897年 12月(標示為1898年), Winston Churchill, 章號 1, 出自 The Celebrity: An Episode, 紐約: The Macmillan Company;倫敦:Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:",
          "text": "The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator."
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        {
          "text": "The ball game is scheduled for Saturday, but we're still at the mercy of the weather.",
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        }
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