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词汇 example_english_ill-fortune
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ill fortune

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meanings of illand fortune


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ill
adjective
uk /ɪl/ us /ɪl/
not feeling well, or suffering from ...
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fortune
noun
uk /ˈfɔː.tʃuːn/ us /ˈfɔːr.tʃuːn/
a large amount of money, goods, ...
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Examples of ill fortune


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Moreover, the outcast colonial generally deserves his illfortune because he is a reprobate.
By the 1930s, the belief that pre-initiation pregnancies boded illfortune for clan, chief and community was highly contested, but it was far from extinct.
We cannot equalize talents, endow people with will, or undo the illfortune of those not favored by the natural lottery.
In the namazu-e, this catfish is neither ferocious nor sublime, but an animal who re-distributes good and illfortune.
It was to help people who, through ill luck or illfortune, have fallen on evil days.
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Even during economic booms small businesses have foundered from bad management, chronic debts, poor products or services or illfortune.
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The implication of the word "accident" is that it is the result of illfortune and cannot be avoided.
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Indeed, on the day when he suffered his stroke, his illfortune was announced on national television, such was his status at the time.
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Many of us may have had the good fortune in one sense, and the illfortune in another, to have owned some bonds on which there was a partial default.
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This philosophy of social policy means providing appropriate help for those who, for one reason or another, cannot cope with life because of inadequacy or illfortune, poverty or sickness.
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It is not fair, because the system depends on whether one has the good or illfortune of having had a council of a particular complexion in the past.
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Illfortune is said to follow a production.
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