Misfortune
[mɪs'fɔːtʃuːn;-tʃ(ə)n] or ['mɪs'fɔrtʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event.
(noun.) an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes.
阿尔玛編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Disaster, calamity, reverse, affliction, visitation, trial, blow, stroke, adversity, distress, hardship, trouble, ill-luck, ill fortune.
詹妮校對
同義詞及反義詞:
[See DISASTER_and_MISADVENTURE]
阿维斯整理
解釋/意思:
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.
校對:索尼亚
娱乐性解釋/意思:
n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
埃米莉錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- A vague feeling of impending misfortune impressed me. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- It was the work of this brutal ruffian whom he had the misfortune to employ. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The marriage is no misfortune in itself, she retorted with some little petulance. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- You are free from that misfortune, however. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- If so, that is their misfortune. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- She had the misfortune to lose her husband when she had been married a few months. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- It cannot promote health nor ease pain; it makes no increase of merit in the person; it creates envy; it hastens misfortune. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- 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. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Yes, he will feel such a misfortune far less than another. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- It has been the misfortune of my life that I have had few chances. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It is your misfortune, my dear fellow. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- As to his voice, this misfortune has took it away. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- In the strength of his misfortune, and the energy of his distress, he fired for the moment like a proud man. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- 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. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- If no misfortune happens, she repeated slowly. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- She was naturally sensible, and misfortunes had made her serious. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I asked him what he thought Ham's state of mind was, in reference to the cause of their misfortunes? 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Then he gave me such a detail of misfortunes now existing, or that were soon to exist, that he left me half melancholy. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- As to deploring her misfortunes, she appeared to have entirely lost the recollection of ever having had any. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- It was a part of her father's misfortunes that they did. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- What a series of misfortunes and disasters! 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- These are heavy misfortunes, replied Elizabeth. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- The Hudson's Bay company, before their misfortunes in the late war, had been much more fortunate than the Royal African company. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Evadne now related the tale of her misfortunes. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Here he himself knows his misfortunes; but as those, with whom he lives. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- What else was to be expected when he was enjoying our past misfortunes--gloating over them at the moment! 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I do not know that the relation of my misfortunes will be useful to you, yet, if you are inclined, listen to my tale. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- 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. 威爾基·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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
科迪莉亚整理