So, while I cannot promise to be mesmerizingly eloquent, I can at least promise to be mercifully brief.

所以，虽然保证会令人着迷，但至少可以保证你们够得到仁慈的简短。

Mercifully, the school had been evacuated, so no children were killed in the strikes.

幸运的是，学校已经被疏散了，因此袭击中没有孩丧生。

For that, mercifully, the TV cameras are switched off.

过，谢天谢地，这个派对是会直播的。

Or did the darkness mercifully conceal such a horror as the MacIntosh house?

它们全都在她前面那一片朦胧之中吗？或者这黑暗好意地把一幅像麦金托什家住宅那样的惨象给遮住了？

But it is not something that I think is mercifully going to shift public opinion.

但是认为这些事情可以改变公众的意见和看法。

She was 13 when she married an adult man (mercifully 19, not 60).

她13岁时嫁给了一个成年男人(幸运的是，他的年龄是19岁，而是60岁)。

Mercifully, some vestiges of Mike's chivalry still survived; he came to stand beside me.

所幸迈克身上残余的骑士精神还在，他走过来站到了旁边。

Long-term interest rates are mercifully low, despite Britain's huge budget deficit A FORMER chairman of the Federal Reserve, Paul Volcker, once compared financial markets to a sea that was prone to occasional storms.

英国预算赤字再高，低利率也会始终如一前美联储主席保罗? 沃尔克曾经把金融市场比作随时可暴风骤雨的汪洋大海。

A sad eclipse of the serene soul, a sharp struggle of the young life with death, but both were mercifully brief, and then the natural rebellion over, the old peace returned more beautiful than ever.

一个安祥的灵魂惨然销蚀，一个年轻的生命与死神展开激烈的搏斗。仁慈的是，灵与肉的搏斗为时长。后来，那种本的反抗便结束了，她又恢复了以前的那种宁静状态而且更加动人。

They had not quite recovered from the shock of Luna's hat before Angelina came hurrying towards them, accompanied by Katie and Alicia, whose eyebrows had mercifully been returned to normal by Madam Pomfrey.

大家还没从惊吓中恢复过来，只见安吉利娜带着凯蒂和艾丽娅匆匆走来，艾丽娅的眉毛总算被庞弗雷夫人变回正常了。

But because the " base rate" is lower still-there are, mercifully, very few terrorists-even a well-designed system risks sending large numbers of spies off on wild-goose chases.

但是由于“基本比率”仍然较低——幸运的是，恐怖少——即使是一个设计良好的系统也有可使大量间谍在徒劳的追捕中丧命。

The Fat Lady was snoozing and not pleased to be woken, but swung forward grumpily to allow them to clamber into the mercifully peaceful and empty common room.

胖夫人正在打瞌睡，被吵醒了大高兴，虽然暴躁，但还是旋开让他们爬了进去，公共休息室里一片清静，空无一人。

It is, mercifully, drying out as Leah LaTray steers her pickup down a track snaked with deep ruts, clods of mud winging out from the wheels.

好在莉亚·拉特雷把皮卡开上布满车辙的小路时，路面已经干了，土块从轮里滚出来。

Mantell's twisted spine remained on display at the Hunterian Museum for nearly a century before being mercifully obliterated by a German bomb in the Blitz.

曼特尔那变了形的脊椎在亨特博物馆展出了将近一个世纪，后来在二战快结束时突袭伦敦的闪电战中大慈大悲地被一枚炸弹击中，见了踪影。

For instance, as Commander Saru on “Star Trek: Discovery, ” it's around two hours a day, which is mercifully short.

例如，“星际迷航：发现”里的指挥官萨鲁，一天需两小时完成化妆，这还算幸运，时间算短了。

Things have mercifully moved on from the 1970s, when explicit support for dying heavy industries with powerful unions cost Britain heavily.

幸运的是，从20世纪70年代起，事情已经开始好转，那时英国明确支持奄奄一息的重工业，而强大的工会联盟却让英国破费惨重。

He cites the robust but mercifully transient English sweating sickness, which raged from 1485 to 1552, killing tens of thousands as it went, before burning itself out.

他举了厉害而幸亏短暂的汗热病，那种病在1485-1552年间流行于英国，致使成千上万人丧了命，然后也烧死了病菌自己。

Mercifully unconscious of what she had done, Jo sat with her nose in the air, and a revolutionary aspect which was anything but inviting.

幸好乔知道自己刚才干了什么，她坐在那儿，鼻翘得半天高，一副叫人看了绝对舒服的叛逆模样。

Anecdotal evidence for this counterintuitive assertion comes from (mercifully rare) episodes where the same tsunami has battered different types of coastal topography.

这种违反直觉的判断的轶事证据来自少见的现象——同一海啸会造成同的海岸地貌。

This realization mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from taking ourselves and other people all too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in particular, gives humor its due.

这种认识仁慈地减轻了容易麻痹的责任感，并防止们过于认真地对待自己和他人；它有助于形成一种人生观，尤其是幽默应有的人生观。