| 单词 | luck |
| 释义 | luck (once / 75 pages) n Luck is chance or happenstance. If something happens from pure good luck, it seemingly came out of nowhere, based only on fate and not on anything you did to make it happen. If you find a fifty dollar bill on the sidewalk, you might exclaim, "What luck!" Alternately, if you lose all night at the poker table, you'll probably blame it on bad luck. In both examples, you're referring to a mysterious, unpredictable circumstance that affects your life by chance. Luck has a Middle Dutch root, luc, which is a shortened form of gheluc, "happiness or good fortune." WORD FAMILYluck: luckless, lucks, lucky+/luckless: lucklessly/lucky: luckier, luckiest, luckily, luckiness, unlucky/unlucky: unluckily USAGE EXAMPLESIt wasn’t luck or even a strategic adjustment that turned things around. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) He says “luck and fate” prevented it from being worst. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) But the buildup of forces in the Baltics is an unambiguous warning to him not to push his luck. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) 1n an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another bad luck caused his downfall Syn|Hypo|Hyper chance, fortune, hazard bad luck, mischance, mishap an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate even chance, toss-up, tossupan unpredictable phenomenon phenomenon any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning 2n an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome it was my good luck to be there they say luck is a lady Syn|Hypo|Hyper fortune fluke, good fortune, good luck a stroke of luck serendipitygood luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries phenomenon any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning 3n your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) the luck of the Irish Syn|Hypo|Hyper circumstances, destiny, fate, fortune, lot, portion good fortune, good luck, luckiness an auspicious state resulting from favorable outcomes providencea manifestation of God's foresightful care for his creatures bad luck, ill luck, misfortune, tough luckan unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes failurelack of success prosperity, successfulnessthe condition of prospering; having good fortune blessing, boona desirable state weaknessthe condition of being financially weak adversity, hard knocks, hardshipa state of misfortune or affliction gutter, sewer, toiletmisfortune resulting in lost effort or money hard cheesebad luck bankruptcya state of complete lack of some abstract property bank failurethe inability of a bank to meet its credit obligations crop failurethe failure of crops to produce a marketable surplus dead ducksomething doomed to failure condition a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing |
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