单词 | unlooked-for |
释义 | unlooked-for From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishunlooked-forun‧looked-for /ʌnˈlʊkt fɔː $ -fɔːr/ adjectiveEXPECTnot expected unlooked-for successExamples from the Corpusunlooked-for• In his family he found an unlooked-for happiness.• The readers were simply an unlooked-for hazard.• Theodora gazed at the extraordinary, the unlooked-for information.• He had seen this unlooked-for inheritance simply as a source of lucre.• Whatever it was, the Regent saw it as an unlooked-for opportunity.• This recondite reinterpretation of the classics had the unlooked-for result of keeping them alive and well for many, many centuries.• He wondered afterwards whether his unlooked-for success in the examination caused him to read the wrong subject at the university.• This was such an unlooked-for success that I now only need glasses for reading. |
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