| 词汇 | thesaurus_articles_resulting-in-bad-things-happening-by-chance |
| 释义 | resulting in bad things happening by chanceThese words describe things, events, or situations that result in bad things happening to people by chance. One common word for this is unlucky. Unlucky describes situations or events that result in a bad or undesirable thing happening. An unlucky bounce led to the winning goal against the home team. "I'm ill and can't go to the theatre like we planned!" "Ah, that's unlucky." The opposite of unlucky is lucky. Lucky is used especially of things that are thought to bring a person good luck. I keep this rabbit's foot as a little lucky charm. Another common word for this is unfortunate. Unfortunate can be used to describe an event or situation that results in something bad happening. It is also used in the phrase it's unfortunate (that) to begin a sentence about something bad that has happened by chance. No one was to blame - it was just an unfortunate accident. The rain delay was unfortunate, given that the match had been previously cancelled. It's unfortunate that he ended up in that situation, but such is life. The opposite of unfortunate is fortunate. Fortunate is slightly more formal than unfortunate. Are you waiting for a taxi? How fortunate! We can ride together, then. If something is ill-fated, it is unsuccessful and bad things, usually death, happen during it by chance. Seven crew members were killed on the ill-fated voyage. In literature, ill-starred is used to say that something, usually an event, results in bad things happening, and is unsuccessful because of that. His ill-starred reign began with a famine and ended with civil war. Foredoomed is another literary word that is used to describe planned events that result in bad things happening from the moment they begin. Foredoomed and ill-starred are not as common as the other synonyms in this article. They sent the wrong envoy to the peace talks - the negotiations were foredoomed. If something, especially an event or a thing, is full of unexpected problems or other bad things that you cannot plan for, almost as if it was under a magic curse, you can say that it is cursed or jinxed. Both of these words are sometimes used humorously. It's just randomly shut down again! This computer is cursed. Between the storm the night before and the washed-out roads in the morning, the bicycle race was cursed from the beginning. That house has been bought and immediately put up for sale again four times in the last two years. It's jinxed. The passengers left the problem-ridden, jinxed cruise ship in the middle of their tour. In informal writing and speech, if you want to show that a situation is particularly unlucky, you can use the word tough. "Ah, I just missed the deadline!" "Oh, that's tough, mate." "She just missed the game-winning goal. Tough luck there on the pitch." Be carefulTough, and especially the phrase tough luck, can also be used in a sarcastic way to show you do not have sympathy for someone's difficulties. Related articleshaving bad things happen by chance |
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