Fortune
['fɔːtʃuːn;-tʃ(ə)n] or ['fɔrtʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a large amount of wealth or prosperity.
(noun.) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); 'whatever my fortune may be'; 'deserved a better fate'; 'has a happy lot'; 'the luck of the Irish'; 'a victim of circumstances'; 'success that was her portion'.
校對:朗达--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life.
(n.) That which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny; as, to tell one's fortune.
(n.) That which comes as the result of an undertaking or of a course of action; good or ill success; especially, favorable issue; happy event; success; prosperity as reached partly by chance and partly by effort.
(n.) Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.
(n.) To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.
(n.) To provide with a fortune.
(n.) To presage; to tell the fortune of.
(v. i.) To fall out; to happen.
尤因整理
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Chance, accident, luck, hap, fortuity.[2]. Livelihood, means of living.[3]. Estate, substance, property, possessions.[4]. Wealth, riches, opulence.[5]. Destiny, fate, destination, doom, lot, star, future condition.[6]. Event, issue, result.[7]. Success, favorable issue.
霍华德編輯
同義詞及反義詞:
[See CHANCE]
整理:威尔伯
解釋/意思:
n. whatever comes by lot or chance: luck: the arbitrary ordering of events: the lot that falls to one in life: success: wealth.—v.i. to befall.—v.t. to determine.—adj. For′tunāte happening by good fortune: lucky: auspicious: felicitous.—adv. For′tunātely.—ns. For′tunāteness; For′tune-book a book helpful in telling fortunes.—adj. For′tuned supplied by fortune.—n. For′tune-hunt′er a man who hunts for marriage with a woman of fortune.—adj. For′tuneless without a fortune: luckless.—v.i. For′tune-tell to reveal futurity: to tell one his fortune.—ns. For′tune-tell′er one who pretends to foretell one's fortune; For′tune-tell′ing.—v.t. For′tunīse (Spens.) to make fortunate or happy.
手打:曼弗雷德
例句/造句/用法:
- And the bulk of your fortune would be laid out in annuities on the authors or their heirs. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- I believe I could make an independent fortune in a few years if I devoted myself exclusively to portraits, so great is the desire for good portraits in the different country towns. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Oh, I am very glad that your father had the good fortune to obtain a weapon. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Superiority of birth supposes an ancient superiority of fortune in the family of the person who claims it. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- A certain Jarndyce, in an evil hour, made a great fortune, and made a great will. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He was determined to make a fortune out of cotton-spinning, and he did, in spite of the loss of his patents, and the rivals who were always pursuing him. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- If I had any fortune of my own, I would willingly pay it to any one who could disprove what you have told me. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Her family--her beggarly family--turned their backs on her for marrying an honest man, who had made his own place and won his own fortune. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- What is the amount of his fortune? 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Sir,' explained that worthy woman, 'I trust it is my good fortune to produce a person you have much desired to find. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- By some happy fortune I was not seasick. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- His wife, his honour, his fortune, everything he loved best had fallen away from him. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The proportion of the expense of house-rent to the whole expense of living, is different in the different degrees of fortune. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Secondly, In a private copartnery, each partner is bound for the debts contracted by the company, to the whole extent of his fortune. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Our good fortune had been wonderful. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Economic history deals with the activities, the career, and fortunes of the common man as does no other branch of history. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- She does her best to destroy my fortunes and her own, and she won't reproach me! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Bale ties themselves have received great attention from inventors, and the most successful have won fortunes for their owners. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Look in the--what was its name when you told fortunes with your brother that I DON'T like? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- For some changes in the fortunes of my friends, I was prepared. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- It was the last asset in their fortunes, the nucleus around which their life was to be rebuilt. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- They studied the stars--to tell fortunes. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- People's lives and fortunes depend on them. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays, men have to work and women marry for money. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- His fortunes are more or less at stake in the issue of events. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- It is natural to her to be a lady; she has adapted herself to our new fortunes with wonderful ease. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Five hundred pounds would be a prodigious increase to their fortunes! 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- It is surprising how many large enterprises and fortunes depend upon some few simple trade secrets the knowledge of which has baffled competition and crushed all rivalry. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Yet she knew that he took a great interest in Lizzie and her fortunes. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- So persons vainly reason when their minds are already made up and their fortunes irrevocably linked together. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
校對:诺琳