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。

youdao

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。

youdao

Robles has been my main rival over the past two years. Neither of us will show mercy at the Olympics, so let's wait and see what happens then.

罗伯斯一直是我过去两年里的主要对手。在奥运会上我们之间谁也不会仁慈，因此咱们等着瞧吧！

youdao

And then what you've got is folks like my grandmother at the mercy of the private insurance system precisely at the time when they are most in need of decent health care.

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So anyway, I served my time, and since the sentencing judge took mercy on me, I served my time at the minimum-security prison up at Holyoke.

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