But whereas you possess it from blind kittenhood to that last dark day so mercifully short with you, we grasp it only for a very little while

不过，你们从懵懵懂懂、活蹦乱跳的幼年到幸好极其短暂的那个倒霉的末日，都保持着安宁而不变，而我们把握住安宁而不变，而我们把握住安宁的时间却极其短暂。

When Muslim parents reach old age, they are treated mercifully , with kindness and selflessness.

当穆斯林父母年事渐高,我们必须以仁慈与无私的精神宽厚地对待他们。

Mercifully ,this kind of maniacal violence is still comparatively rare in pubs.But there’s no denying that there has been a steady increase in physical violence during recent years.

好在这种疯狂的暴力相对在酒吧还比较少，但是不容否认的是最近几年暴力行为呈稳步上升的态势。

Amnesia mercifully obliterated his memory of the accident.

记忆丧失症幸运地抹掉了他关于那次事故的记忆

The play was very bad, but mercifully it was also short!

那剧糟透了, 幸好还不算长!

Nixon proceeded to respond, mercifully more tersely than Brezhnev

尼克松开始做出回答了。幸运的是，他讲的比勃列日涅夫简练。

During dinner she hardly spoke, and Miss Ley was mercifully silent

晚饭时她没有说话，莱伊小姐也宽厚地沉默着。

I rejected the voice of providence, which had mercifully put me in a posture or station of life, wherein I might have been happy and easy

我拒绝了上天的好意,上天原本对我十分慈悲,把我安排在一个优裕的生活环境中,让我幸福舒适地过日子。

Now he was mercifully snatched out of the gulf by a convincing work upon his mind, but I was left as if I was forsaken of God’s grace

现在他是被直挚的感触慈悲地从深坑中救出，但是我却剩下来，好象被神的慈悲所弃了。

mercifully , the silliness of these juvenile cards stopped by about age 12, but the agony and the ecstasy of course continued

谢天谢地，在大约12岁的时候，这些少年之间送贺卡的愚蠢游戏结束了。当然，内心的痛苦与狂喜还继续着。

Mercifully ,the weather help up.

幸亏天气帮忙。

Finally, exhausted and exhilarated, he soon fell into a mercifully dreamless sleep

最后，他觉得困乏了，可还是喜孜孜的，终于很快就昏昏沉沉地睡着了。

||1: Mr Dennett’s book is not a definitive solution to such mind-benders; it is philosophy in action. ||2: Like all good philosophy, it works by getting the reader to examine deeply held but unspoken beliefs about some of our most fundamental concerns, like personal autonomy. ||3: It is not an easy read: expect to pore over some passages more than once. ||4: But given the intellectual gratification Mr Dennett’s clear, witty and mercifully jargon-free prose affords, that is a feature, not a bug.

||1:丹内特的书并不是对此类让头脑发晕的问题的终极答案。相反，他的书是对此类问题的终极思考。||2:这就如同那些有意义的终极思考一样，该书通过让读者对那些深藏于我们内心却又无法言说的信念进行检讨，从而达到自己的目的。||3:这不是一本容易读懂的书。因此，我们希望读者在阅读某些篇章时多读几遍。||4:不过，考虑到丹内特那种明晰、诙谐以及充分为读者考虑而不使用术语的文风所带来的智力上的满足，多读几遍才能读懂正是本书的一大特色，而不是一个瑕疵。

This is daring stuff in the context of today’s Republican Party because it envisages a role for government that many conservatives would find distasteful.|| Where Republican orthodoxy suggests saving poor people from welfare dependency by mercifully reducing the amount of money they receive, Mr Rubio aims to cut welfare spending by reducing the demand for it, keeping funding at the same level but handing anti-poverty programmes over to the states to figure out what works.|| “I don’t take my children to the circus very often,” he says, “but when I do I have noticed that acrobats tend to be much more daring when they have a safety net beneath them.” Such support “is essential for the success of the free enterprise system”.

1:鲁比奥代表了当今共和党派中富有胆识的一派，因为他们为政府构想的职能，是许多保守党派深觉反感的。||2:当共和党中的老派人士建议通过仁慈地降低福利水平，以拯救穷人对福利项目的依赖时，鲁比奥却计划通过降低需求来减少福利开支，将补助水平维持原有标准不改变的同时，把反贫困项目下放到各州，来找出其中有效的方案。||3:他说：“我并不经常带小孩去马戏团，不过有时候去，我注意到当下面有安全网时，杂技演员会更勇敢。”||4:因此，这样的支持“对自由企业体制的成功至关重要”。

||1: Maya accepts the methods used by Dan, her CIA mentor, on the unfortunate Ammar to get information that could prevent an attack on a hotel in Saudi Arabia. She even fetches the water for the water-boarding. ||2: In the mercifully brief scene where Dan uses humiliation and confinement to break his battered captive, Maya’s presence is part of the routine. ||3: The attack happens anyway because the Saudis fail to act on the CIA’s tip.

||1:玛雅采用了CIA顾问丹的方法，在可怜的的阿尔玛身上获取情报去阻止一场沙特阿拉伯的宾馆袭击，她甚至取来水对犯人施以水刑。||2:丹处罚犯人比较宽容，在一简短的画面里，他通过羞辱和禁闭让他饱受虐待的犯人得以屈服说出情报，玛雅像往常一样出现。||3:尽管如此，后来袭击还是发生了，因为那个沙特阿拉伯人没有按照CIA的掌握的线索行事。

||1:Mercifully , when Barack Obama was president, the two countries managed to establish some rules for managing close encounters between their ships and planes.||2:That has led to fewer near collisions in the air and at sea.||3:But that still falls short.||4:China’s relentless beefing up of its military forces has created an urgent need for wider-ranging agreements.||5:Pentagon officials say China is arming its air force with nuclear weapons.||6:That would give China a complete “triad” of nuclear weaponry, launchable from the air, land and sea.||7:Yet the two armed forces have not held nuclear talks in over ten years.||8:Even the Soviet Union agreed to give warnings about ballistic-missile tests.||9:The Chinese refuse to consider such a confidence-building measure,despite the growing importance of missiles to both countries.

||1:幸运的是，当巴拉克?奥巴马担任美国总统时，两国设法制定了一些规则，管理两国船只和飞机之间的近距离接触。||2:这减少了空中和海上的近距离碰撞。||3:但这仍然不够。||4:不断加强军力，迫切需要达成更广泛的协议。||5:美国政府官员说，正在用核武器武装其空军。||6:这将形成一个完整的“三位一体”的核武器，可以从空中、陆地和海上发射。||7:然而，两军已经10多年没有举行过核谈判。||8:就连苏联也同意就弹道导弹试验发出警告。||9:尽管导弹对两国的重要性日益增加，但中国拒绝考虑这样的建立信任措施。

The Brisbane River’s height peaked on January 13th at 4. 5 metres, mercifully below 1974 levels.

1月13日，布里斯班河水位的最高点升到了4.5米，好在低于1974年的水位。

The AA says such jams are mercifully rare in the UK, with a channel port disruption being its “very worst nightmare” .

AA说，这样的交通堵塞几乎很少在英国发生，当时的海峡港堵车已是“最可怕的噩梦”。

Ben finally stopped hallucinating after about three days and a conversation with a mercifully sympathetic police officer.

Ben在和一个仁慈且富有同情心的警官谈过一番后才停止了异想天开。

It is true that Egypt has suffered from bouts of terrorism, though mercifully not much in recent years.

埃及的确受到过恐怖分子的袭击，但是万幸的是今年来袭击并不多。

The Popsicle stick was warm, the bottle was cold, and I was not Frederic. His war was over, beautifully, tragically, mercifully .

冰棍棒是温热的，汽水瓶冰冷，而我不是弗莱德利克，他的战争已经结束了，那是多么美丽、悲剧和仁慈。

Poland’s voters have now mercifully dragged it back.

波兰的选民现在已将这种局面扭转。

But in most countries its effect was mercifully mild.

不过在大部分国家，它却手下留情，效果温和。

Such change is always difficult and, perhaps mercifully , slower than the march of technology.

此类变革总是很艰难，而且比技术进步的步伐更为缓慢——这或许是幸运的。

Today people live to 65 and, in countries such as Japan and Canada, over 80; outside Africa, a child’s death is mercifully rare.

而今天人类能活到65岁，在有些国家如日本和加拿大，平均寿命超过了80岁；非洲以外的地区，鲜有儿童死亡。

Perhaps mercifully , he was due to escape Washington on November 5th for the pomp of a ten-day visit to Asia.

还算幸运的是，从11月5日起他将开始一段为期10天的亚洲各国访问，可以因此逃离华盛顿一段时间。

The church’s fading institutional power makes it (mercifully ) easier for people who were abused by clerics to speak out;

教会退却的制度能力使得那些被神职人员虐待的人们（仁慈的）能更容易的表达出来；

Watching Williams’s (mercifully restrained) performance I found myself wishing my English teachers had been as inspiring.

看到William适度克制的表演，我希望我的英语老师们也可以这样激励我们。

THE incompetence of Nepal’s self-regarding politicians helped fuel a nasty decade-long war, mercifully ended in 2006.

尼泊尔那些自封的政治家们的无能助燃了十年之久的可恨的战争，幸好在2006年结束了。

If that is right, Taiwan could yet turn out to be an international flashpoint that, mercifully , will never flash.

如果这种看法正确，那么台湾仍可能幸运地变成一个永远不着火的国际闪点。