at the mercy of

India seems to forget that its water supply for agriculture, industry and life is at the mercy of China.

印度似乎忘记自己的农业、工业和生活用水掌握在中国手里。

But I was sick and tried of being a tenant at the mercy of landlords. So I threw my hands up and said: the hell with it.

可我对做一个受房东们任意摆布的房客烦死了。于是我举起双手说道：让它见鬼去吧！

This means that your self-esteem is always at the mercy of others, with no appreciation of you as an individual.

而这意味着你的自尊总是受他人支配，和是否欣赏你这个人并无关系。

Previously, this was a time-consuming process in which the applicant was at the mercy of government decision makers.

以前，这是一个非常耗时的过程，申请人完全受制于政府决策者。

In the park, I saw a little boy holding a kite. The kite was up and down overhead at the mercy of the wind.

在公园里，我看见一个小男孩手持风筝线，风筝在他的头顶上随风摆动，忽上忽下。

The extraction of keywords would have been a manual process, their selection entirely at the mercy of the person performing it.

关键字的提取将是一个手动进程，关键字的选择完全取决于执行选择的人。

But it needs export markets to stay vibrant at a time when its import bill is at the mercy of commodity prices.

但这都需要出在进口单证都依赖于商品价格时，口市场长久地保持活力。

And when it comes to fathering healthy children, older men, it turns out, are just as much at the mercy of their biological clocks as women.

在孕育孩子方面，年岁较长的男性和女性一样，也受生物钟的影响，而且受影响的程度和女性相当。

they seized the ship, and put him in a small boat to float at the mercy of the sea.

他们夺了船，把船长放进一条小船，任其在海上漂泊。

Mr Obama says that he refuses to leave seniors "at the mercy of the insurance industry, with a shrinking benefit to pay for rising costs" .

奥巴马先生说，他决不让老年人们“任凭保险公司摆布，要支付的医疗费在增长，而保险金却在缩水”。

Taking the first several minutes after waking up to acclimate to my day reminds me that I'm not at the mercy of everyone else's agenda.

好好利用好这几分钟时间来安排自己的一天，让我明白我不是受别人的议程支配的。

He was at the mercy of his own aching needs, and that was as new to him as Nora's soft cries of surprised pleasure were to her.

他是可以控制自己渴望的需求的，劳拉温柔而快乐的惊叫对他也是新鲜事。

Having lost engine power, the boat's crew found themselves at the mercy of the wind.

在失去引擎动力之后，船员们发现自己只能任凭风力摆布了。

It's easy to feel at the mercy of my work, my clients and even the self-imposed pressure that I feel to deliver value.

工作、客户，甚至是一些我自己强加的压力常常轻易地就支配了我的生活。

Whether or not the secretary will be fired is at the mercy of her boss.

这个秘书是否会被解雇完全取决于她的老板。

By the time the end of the year arrived, losses piled up on my pad and my job security was at the mercy of a select few I barely knew.

到年底时，自己组合上的亏损堆积起来，饭碗能否保住，完全要看那几个我几乎一无所知的人做出的决定。

And none of this was perfectly predictable, being at the mercy of dozens variables going through the destruction engine.

而所有的这些情况不可能都得到完整的预测，因为这类破坏引擎中有几十个变量在相互影响。

The whole family was at the mercy of his hands.

全家都在他的支配下。

They were lost at the sea, at the mercy of the wind and weather.

他们在海上迷失了方向，任由风和天气摆布。

Unfortunately, that boat at the mercy of the wind represented a number of us years later.

不幸地是，随风向任意摆布的小船时隔多年依然代表了我们许多人；