Misfortune
[mɪs'fɔːtʃuːn;-tʃ(ə)n] or ['mɪs'fɔrtʃən]
解释:
(noun.) unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event.
(noun.) an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes.
阿尔玛编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance.
(v. i.) To happen unluckily or unfortunately; to miscarry; to fail.
手打:尤赖亚
同义词及近义词:
n. Disaster, calamity, reverse, affliction, visitation, trial, blow, stroke, adversity, distress, hardship, trouble, ill-luck, ill fortune.
詹妮校对
同义词及反义词:
[See DISASTER_and_MISADVENTURE]
阿维斯整理
解释:
n. ill-fortune: an evil accident: calamity: (coll.) a euphemism for a lapse from virtue resulting in the birth of a natural child.—adj. Misfor′tuned. (Milt.) unfortunate.
校对:索尼亚
娱乐性解释:
n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
埃米莉录入
例句:
- A vague feeling of impending misfortune impressed me. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- It was the work of this brutal ruffian whom he had the misfortune to employ. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- The marriage is no misfortune in itself, she retorted with some little petulance. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- You are free from that misfortune, however. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- If so, that is their misfortune. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- She had the misfortune to lose her husband when she had been married a few months. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- It cannot promote health nor ease pain; it makes no increase of merit in the person; it creates envy; it hastens misfortune. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- And therefore he will be least likely to lament, and will bear with the greatest equanimity any misfortune of this sort which may befall him. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Yes, he will feel such a misfortune far less than another. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- It has been the misfortune of my life that I have had few chances. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It is your misfortune, my dear fellow. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- As to his voice, this misfortune has took it away. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- In the strength of his misfortune, and the energy of his distress, he fired for the moment like a proud man. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- I was a happy and successful man, Mr. Holmes, and on the eve of being married, when a sudden and dreadful misfortune wrecked all my prospects in life. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- If no misfortune happens, she repeated slowly. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- An undue love of Self leads to the most monstrous crimes and occasions the greatest misfortunes both in States and Families. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- She was naturally sensible, and misfortunes had made her serious. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- I asked him what he thought Ham's state of mind was, in reference to the cause of their misfortunes? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Then he gave me such a detail of misfortunes now existing, or that were soon to exist, that he left me half melancholy. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- As to deploring her misfortunes, she appeared to have entirely lost the recollection of ever having had any. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- It was a part of her father's misfortunes that they did. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- What a series of misfortunes and disasters! 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- These are heavy misfortunes, replied Elizabeth. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- The Hudson's Bay company, before their misfortunes in the late war, had been much more fortunate than the Royal African company. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Evadne now related the tale of her misfortunes. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Here he himself knows his misfortunes; but as those, with whom he lives. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- What else was to be expected when he was enjoying our past misfortunes--gloating over them at the moment! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- I do not know that the relation of my misfortunes will be useful to you, yet, if you are inclined, listen to my tale. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- The misfortunes of my youth are very hard upon me, he said, turning his face to the wall, very hard upon me in my later time. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Bother your misfortunes, cried Mrs. Bagnet, if they don't make you more reasonable than that comes to. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
科迪莉亚整理