Hapless
['hæplɪs]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) deserving or inciting pity; 'a hapless victim'; 'miserable victims of war'; 'the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic'- Galsworthy; 'piteous appeals for help'; 'pitiable homeless children'; 'a pitiful fate'; 'Oh, you poor thing'; 'his poor distorted limbs'; 'a wretched life' .
费理斯編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid.
埃迪校對
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Luckless, unlucky, unfortunate, unhappy, wretched, miserable, forlorn, ill-starred, ill-fated.
整理:莱缪尔
同義詞及反義詞:
[See LUCKLESS]
辛迪校對
例句/造句/用法:
- He was sorry--he was very sorry: for my sake he grieved over the hapless peculiarity. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- She is always having stalls at Fancy Fairs for the benefit of these hapless beings. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I told her that I believed she had given me a faithful account of herself, and that we had both been hapless instruments in designing hands. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I'm everyways agreeable, sir, says the hapless Jo. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I heard of the discovery of the American hemisphere, and wept with Safie over the hapless fate of its original inhabitants. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Everybody felt the allusion to her departure, and to her hapless orphan state. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Sublime grandeur of outward objects soothed our hapless hearts, and were in harmony with our desolation. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Tread silently round the hapless couch of the poor prostrate soul. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He remembered his oath, and slaughtered the hapless Knight of Chatillon with his own hand. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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