If your happiness depends on the actions of others, you're at mercy of things that you can't control.

语音讲解：

今日发音练习重点：

言之有物：

1. 词链儿：depend on/upon XX

依靠；指望；取决于 XX

回顾【If we're going to survive, we'll have to trust each other, depend on each other, coexist.】

2. 词链儿：the action(s) of XX

XX的行为

You are never responsible for the actions of others.

你从不需要为别人的行为负责。

Is that the action of a close friend?

这是亲密朋友所为吗？

3. 词链儿：at the mercy of XX

→ at one's mercy

对…无能为力；任由…摆布

We were at the mercy of the weather.

我们受制于天气。

She was completely at his mercy.

她完全听任他的摆布。

回顾【mercy/merciful】

★原声例句：We're at the mercy of the market.

我们受制于市场。

★原声例句：In the winter, they were at the mercy of the bad season.

冬天，他们还得听凭这个坏季节摆布。

You're at the mercy of politics.

你是吃皇粮的。

图片源自《亿万》

We are at the mercy of unseen forces.

我们任凭看不见的力量摆布。

图片源自《宇宙时空之旅》

Well, we... Well, we cannot be so totally at their mercy.

这......我们，但是我们不能就这样全然受他们摆布。

图片源自《至暗时刻》

4. 词链儿：control XX

指挥；控制XX

Can't you control your children?

你就不能管管你这些孩子？

This knob controls the volume.

此旋钮调节音量。

活学活用：

请用 at the mercy of XX /at one's mercy 随意造句

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