| 释义 |
mercilessly, adv.|ˈmɜːsɪlɪslɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a merciless manner.
1609Bp. Hall Song of Songs Paraphr. iv. 8 Cruell and bloudy persecutors, who like Lions and Leopards haue tyrannized over thee, and mercilesly torne thee in peeces. 1660C. Ellis Gentile Sinner 197 Whilest she has been mercilessly torne in pieces, by the cruel teeth of those ravenous beasts. 1755in Johnson. 1833H. Coleridge Biog. Bor., Marvell 26 So mercilessly had the Church of Scotland been stripped..that she could not afford an episcopal establishment. 1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. iii. xiv, The sun still shining mercilessly on the steaming marsh. |