| 词汇 | misfortune |
| 释义 | misfortune noun[ C or U ] uk /ˌmɪsˈfɔː.tʃuːn/ us /ˌmɪsˈfɔːr.tʃən/ C1 bad luck, or an unlucky event: 不幸；厄运；不幸事故；灾难 [ + to infinitive ]That was the worst film I've ever had the misfortune to see.那是我不走运看过的最糟糕的电影。 She suffered a good deal of misfortune over the years.多年来她遭受了巨大的不幸。 It's unfair to take advantage of other people's misfortunes.乘人之危是不当的。 an accident accidentAccidents at work can sometimes result in serious injury. mishapDue to a surgical mishap, she's lost the use of her left arm. mischanceIt would be a great loss if, by some mischance, the message was never received. misfortuneThey were beset by misfortunes their whole lives. misadventureThe film was about his comic misadventures in love. death by misadventureUKThe coroner recorded a verdict of death by misadventure. Good luck and bad luck align bad/hard/tough luck!idiom be bad luck on someoneidiom be down on your luckidiom be in/out of luckidiom blessing fortune cookie fortune smiles on someoneidiom get the short end of the stickidiom godsend grace merciful mercifully mercy miracle misadventure streak voodoo with any luckidiom your luck's in!idiom misfortune | American Dictionarymisfortune noun[ C/U ] us/mɪsˈfɔr·tʃən/ bad luck, or an unlucky event: [ C ]Never take delight in someone’s personal misfortunes. [ U ]The school nurse was as mean a lady as you’d ever have the misfortune to meet. Examples of misfortunemisfortune Perspective-taking can also initiate a preverbal process (one hears about a familiar victim's misfortune and imagines his facial expression, which triggers empathy). Neither envy nor misfortune creeps into our peaceful valley; our cares are our work. It is their misfortune that the publishers have neglected to provide the book with an index. This is my most painful torment, this is the worst of my misfortunes: to think of the past. Furthermore, he believed that charitable loans would only contribute to the rise of poverty and misfortune. In this sense the divorce was treated as a misfortune that befell the entire family, and they had to be close to get through it. Along these lines, would it be such a great misfortune if music was unable to render sublime and courageous emotions? What is the boundary between misfortune and injustice? Was the misfortune less when something else than death did this? Superstition was said to arise from misfortunes in private or public affairs, from ill health, or from a gloomy and melancholy disposition. Resignation is the acceptance of everything as it is : it is the inability to be affected by fortune and misfortune. This is a story of a misfortune turned into a blessing. Under the proper circumstances it can instead prompt more talk concerning the teller's misfortune, as the following case demonstrates. In these instances and in many others, human ingenuity and perseverance succeed in converting misfortune into victory. Both depict, through narration, worlds full of characters absorbed by the rhetorical task of narrating their misfortunes. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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