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The small boat was at the mercy of the storm.
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醫學系選哪科？急診 vs 外傷外科的職涯真實較量（Emergency Medicine Doctor vs Trauma Surgeon ???? Career Battle）
- Even as an attending, you're at the mercy of when traumas arrive.
這些手術範圍很廣，種類繁多。
- Even as an attending, you're at the mercy of when traumas arrive.
即使是主治醫師，你還是得看創傷何時會來。
美第奇家族是誰？佛羅倫斯統治家族的簡史！ (Who Were the Medici? A Nutshell History of Florence's Rulling Family)
- Unfortunately, the Medici's grip on power would once again slip through their fingers, in 1527 the Holy Roman Emperor Charles the V sacked Rome and the Medici Pope Clement the seventh found himself at the mercy of the invaders.
不幸的是，1527 年神聖羅馬帝國皇帝查理五世洗劫了羅馬，美第奇教皇克萊門特七世發現自己只能任由侵略者擺佈。
- the Medici Pope, Clement VII, found himself at the mercy of the invaders.
這一災難性事件標誌著這個家庭的轉捩點。
日本漁夫的一天！真實出海捕魚記 🎣 (Day in the Life of a Japanese Fisherman)
- He also mentions that he checks their monitoring system even on the weekends, just in case there's an issue that arises requiring his urgent attention, as his job is always at the mercy of Mother Nature and nothing in the ocean is ever completely predictable.
我相信是的！
- Just in case there's an issue that arises requiring his urgent attention as his job is always at the mercy of mother nature
以防萬一，因為他的工作總是受到大自然的擺佈，出現問題需要他緊急處理
受傷的人如何尋求更進一步的懲罰？ (How Wounded People Seek Out further Punishment)
- It's just that for us, home was a place of grief and persecution. It's easy enough to see why children put up with poor treatment. They're born radically powerless. They can't run away. They are utterly at the mercy of others. They can't even think especially straight. What they must do, above all else, is adapt. Which in practice means learning to put up with poor treatment. They have to develop an advanced skill at not noticing quite how awful things are, an expertise at being unfazed by cruelty and neglect. Children in deprived circumstances tend to be geniuses at looking away, disassociating and making light of things. Of course, it might not be perfect that their father screams at them constantly, but there are some interesting shows on television and there's a really fascinating bit of the garden to explore in the morning. You can climb up the big tree and imagine it's a little house. And of course, ideally their mother wouldn't be so mocking and disloyal. But that's just the way things are, neither more or less sad than the fact it's often raining and there's a lot of homework to do. In any case, the bad treatment almost certainly has to do with something that they, the child, have done wrong. Badly treated children tend to take a compulsively generous view of those who injure them. Obviously, they aren't nasty on purpose. That would make no sense. Clearly, their ostensible brutality has sound explanations. It must be because they, the child, is in the wrong. That's why they're being neglected. That's why they've been declared fools. That's why they're being bullied. It's a great deal easier to believe that the parent is tough, yet fundamentally right, rather than gratuitously callous and unjustifiably hostile. In other words, what a bad childhood trains us to do, above all else, is to indulge meanness. The muscle that normally functions to repel attacks has had to be starved and has atrophied. In order to survive, we had to lose the ability to work out what was good and bad for us, lest we discover that we spent 18 years in the company of fiends. What this means for our futures is that we will be extremely poor at discerning when the partners we let into our lives cross the border into selfishness and malevolence. We'll continue under a narcoleptic command not to notice that we're being robbed and deceived. We'll be as blind to the blows now as we were then. For a long time, it simply won't occur to us to wonder why we've ended up paying for everything for the partner, or why they're unreliable in their promises, or constantly prioritise their friends over us, or are angrily defensive whenever we raise a complaint. We will simply, as we had to early on, fall into line and invent elaborate explanations for their behaviour. They're good, but they're tired. They're durable, but under pressure at work. They're fierce, but compensating for their childhood traumas, for which we have a lot of sympathy. Anything other than the more straightforward conclusion, we've fallen in with unconcerned egoists. We shouldn't compound our disloyalty towards ourselves by feeling, on top of everything else, ashamed for our tolerance. It isn't weakness, it's a survival strategy from childhood that served a very sensible purpose then but is liable to be ruining our lives now. To wake ourselves up, we need to consider our choices as if someone else had made them. We might wonder what we would advise a friend to do if they were in our situation. And through such a lens, we might start to perceive that the treatment we're facing isn't, as we've long thought, a sign of our partner's depth or complexity, but in the end, something much more humble, evidence that we need to get away. But this will be only a momentary liberation until we can understand the more fundamental issue, that the muscle most people use to eject poison has withered because of a distinctive history. We need to reverse the direction of our psychological fate. Our early suffering should not condemn us to yet more pain. It is what gives us an especially powerful claim on original sources of kindness, tenderness and calm.
只是對我們來說，家是一個充滿悲傷和迫害的地方。很容易理解為什麼孩子們要忍受惡劣的待遇。他們生來就毫無力量他們無法逃避。他們完全任由他人擺佈。他們甚至連思考的能力都沒有他們必須做的，最重要的，就是適應。在實踐中，這意味著要學會忍受惡劣的待遇。他們必須發展出一種高級技能，即不去注意事情有多糟糕，擅長對殘忍和忽視不為所動。生活在貧困環境中的孩子往往是睜一隻眼閉一隻眼、脫離現實和輕描淡寫的天才。當然，他們的父親經常對他們大吼大叫，這可能並不完美，但電視上有一些有趣的節目，而且早上可以去花園裡探索一個非常迷人的地方
- They are utterly at the mercy of others.
音樂史上10個最黑暗的時刻！😱 (10 Darkest Moments in Music History)
- Poor emergency precautions left the crowd at the mercy of the flames.
由於應急措施不力，人群只能任由火焰肆虐。
- Poor emergency precautions left the crowd at the mercy of the flames.
你知道，這只是一個可怕的、可怕的意外。
史上最大規模的北極探險隊！為何要讓船隊「凍」在冰裡？ (The Largest Arctic Expedition Ever Is Freezing Itself in the Ice, Here’s Why)
- So the sea ice—we're really at the mercy of the sea ice.
所以 sea ice，我們真的得看 sea ice 的臉色。
- So the sea ice, we're really at the mercy of the sea ice.
所以 sea ice，我們真的得看 sea ice 的臉色。
顛覆山水畫法的傳奇畫家！ (The Painter Who Revolutionized Landscapes)
- After all, the Sublime, like I said before, includes a feeling of terror, the terror of being in the presence of something far more vast than ourselves, of being at the mercy of what we can't wrap our arms or our minds around.
樹木光禿禿的，樹枝扭曲得像銳利的手指。
- After all, the sublime, like I said before, includes a feeling of terror, the terror of being in the presence of something far more vast than ourselves, of being at the mercy of what we can't wrap our arms or our minds around.
畢竟，崇高感，就像我之前說的，包含了恐懼感，也就是身處遠比我們自身更為浩瀚的存在面前，任由我們無法理解的事物擺佈的恐懼。
航空公司為什麼會超額預訂班機？| CNBC 解釋 (Why do airlines overbook flights? | CNBC Explains)
- So, are passengers at the mercy of airlines?
那代表乘客受制於航空公司嗎？
- So are passengers at the mercy of airlines?
或可以要求盡快或是日期能配合的航班，可以重新讓你抵達最終目的地。