Luck
[lʌk]
解释:
(noun.) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; 'bad luck caused his downfall'; 'we ran into each other by pure chance'.
(noun.) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome; 'it was my good luck to be there'; 'they say luck is a lady'; 'it was as if fortune guided his hand'.
录入:鲁道夫--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such events regarded as occurring by chance; chance; hap; fate; fortune; often, one's habitual or characteristic fortune; as, good, bad, ill, or hard luck. Luck is often used for good luck; as, luck is better than skill.
贾维斯整理
同义词及近义词:
n. Chance, fortune, hazard, hap, haphazard, fate.
西莉亚手打
同义词及反义词:
[See CHANCE]
整理:玛丽
解释:
n. fortune good or bad: chance: lot: good fortune.—adv. Luck′ily.—n. Luck′iness.—adj. Luck′less without good luck: unhappy.—adv. Luck′lessly.—ns. Luck′lessness; Luck′-penn′y a trifle returned for luck by a seller to a buyer: a coin carried for luck.—adj. Luck′y having good luck: auspicious.—n. Luck′y-bag a receptacle for lost property on board a man-of-war.—Be down on one's luck to be unfortunate.
海耶斯校对
例句:
- That was for luck. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- As luck would have it, Raggles' house in Curzon Street was to let when Rawdon and his wife returned to London. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- He would try to write it and if he had luck and could remember it perhaps he could get it down as she told it. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- His luck's got fouled under the keels of the barges. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Just my luck! 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- And what's more,--he's in luck again, by George if he ain't! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Good luck, Catherine said. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- It was the luck of Britain that they remained, though dissentient in spirit, under the British flag. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Some might think him, and others might think her, the most in luck. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- I thought he was rather a handsome fellow, and I thought I should have been much the same sort of fellow, if I had had any luck. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- That manner of speaking never brings luck. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- I will consider that in meeting her to-night I have met with one of those birds whose appearance is to the sailor the harbinger of good luck. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- That 'ere Dodger has such a run of luck that there's no standing again' him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Boast not of that, said a Knight of St John, who was present; your Temple champion had no better luck. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Happily Lydgate had ended by losing in the billiard-room, and brought away no encouragement to make a raid on luck. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
整理:蒂娜