| 单词 | unfortunate |
| 释义 | unfortunate (ʌnfɔːʳtʃʊnət ) Word forms: unfortunates 1. adjective B2 If you describe someone as unfortunate, you mean that something unpleasant or unlucky has happened to them. You can also describe the unpleasant things that happen to them as unfortunate. Some unfortunate person passing below could all too easily be seriously injured. Apparently he had been unfortunate enough to fall victim to a gang of thugs. Through some unfortunate accident, the information reached me a day late. It was unfortunate for Davey that his teacher did not take kindly to him. [+ for] Synonyms: disastrous, calamitous, inopportune, adverse 2. adjective B2 If you describe something that has happened as unfortunate, you think that it is inappropriate, embarrassing, awkward, or wrong. It really is desperately unfortunate that this should have happened just now. ...the unfortunate incident of the upside-down Canadian flag. The store's former executive made some unfortunate remarks about fat customers. Synonyms: regrettable, deplorable, lamentable, inappropriate 3. adjective B2 You can describe someone as unfortunate when they are poor or have a difficult life. Every year we have charity days to raise money for unfortunate people. ...the unfortunate inhabitants of the East End slums. Synonyms: unlucky, poor, unhappy, doomed An unfortunate is someone who is unfortunate. Dorothy was another of life's unfortunates. Collocations: unfortunate combination Or a rather unfortunate combination of multiple organ failure and a recent meal including green food colouring (which the failing organs can't deal with). Times, Sunday Times It has the unfortunate combination of earnings largely denominated in sterling and major costs, such as jet fuel, priced in dollars. Times, Sunday Times This unfortunate combination caused religious observance to seriously wane. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 After being pulled unconscious into the photopit, the act of fainting had an unfortunate effect on her bladder. Times, Sunday Times That dry air has another unfortunate effect: electric shocks. Times, Sunday Times This had the unfortunate effect of making what was a friendly rapprochement look like a hostile offer. Times, Sunday Times Books like this one have the unfortunate effect of adding to that impression. The Times Literary Supplement Meritocracy has the unfortunate effect of making aspiration a zero-sum game. Times, Sunday Times He described this as an 'unfortunate error of judgment'. Times, Sunday Times But it was an early, unfortunate error that spread panic in the team. Times, Sunday Times The judge called the original failure to report him 'an unfortunate error'. The Sun An unfortunate error which alters the balance of the game. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 At the subsequent courts martial, the courts accepted that the entire incident was an unfortunate error. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Delaying full and open planning while warning of a future squeeze may be combining to give us a deeply unfortunate outcome. Times, Sunday Times Here, she investigates the informal power networks that 'account for the failure to implement leaders' will and the unfortunate outcomes of well-intentioned modernization programmes'. The Times Literary Supplement However, they have been introduced in a hurry and this has magnified the chance of some suffering unexpected and unfortunate outcomes. Times, Sunday Times You could say it's a visual feast, but given the subject matter that might be an unfortunate turn of phrase. Times, Sunday Times This also makes the unfortunate turn of events have a particular philosophy to them. Times, Sunday Times An unfortunate turn of phrase, given that within a matter of minutes, the rest of their hero's body would be on the ground, too. The Sun This unfortunate turn of phrase was much relished by the tabloids who quoted it endlessly. Times, Sunday Times But due to some unfortunate turn of events, it never came to be. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 不幸的, 不幸的人 Japanese: 不運な, 不幸な境遇の人 |
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