看到我的家人安然无恙，我感到极大的慰藉

7) What a relief!' she said, as she took her tight shoes off.

她把夹脚的鞋脱下时说："可松快了!"

【归纳用法】

relief可以用作不可数或可数名词。

relief用作不可数名词，义项有：

(1).(痛苦,负担等的)缓和,减轻;解除 (2).轻松,宽心,慰藉 (3).救济;补助;解救 (4).救济物品,救济金

relief用作可数名词，一般只用作单数，意思为"慰藉；轻松；减轻痛苦的事物"。

常用短语：

in relief如释重负地; 松了口气

(much) to one's great relief某人庆幸的是

what a relief! 真轻松!

the relief from sth......的消除/减轻

4. mercy

【观察思考】

Farmers hunted us without mercy.

农民门总是惨无人道地捕杀我们。

1) The king showed no mercy to the prisoners and killed them.

这个国王没有宽容之心，杀死了所有的犯人。

2) It's a mercy she wasn't hurt in the accident.

她在事故中未受伤, 真幸运.

3) Have mercy on them! They are children after all.

可怜可怜他们吧。毕竟他们是孩子。

4) We were given no/little mercy.

我们没有得到宽恕.

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

他们在海上迷了路，任凭风和天气的摆布。

【归纳用法】

mercy用作名词，义项有：(1) 宽容；怜悯；仁慈 (2) 幸运；侥幸，用作此义时，为可数