| 单词 | mischance |
| 释义 | mischance (once / 3661 pages) n Mischance describes a moment of bad luck, like when you have the mischance of slipping on the ice or catching a cold or losing your car keys. A mischance is a mishap or misadventure, or it can be plain old bad luck, like being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The word comes from an Old French word, mescheoir, where mes-, means "adversely" and -cheoir means "befall." A series of mischances might add up to a failed business, a lost Super Bowl, or just a really, really bad day. WORD FAMILYmischance: mischances+/chance: chanced, chanceful, chancely, chances, chancing, chancingly, chancy, mischance/chanceful: chancefully/chancy: chancier, chanciest, chancily USAGE EXAMPLESBut equally, without exception, so that no one felt shut out by some irrelevant mischance of birth. Scott Westerfeld, Uglies(2005) Geoffrey Chaucer wrote in The Canterbury Tales that “on a Friday fell all this mischance.” Time(Feb 13, 2015) "Scotland got under the English Parliament by mischance," in 1707, she said. US News(Sep 18, 2014) 1n an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate Syn|Hyper bad luck, mishap chance, fortune, hazard, luck an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another 2n an instance of misfortune Syn|Hypo|Hyper misadventure, mishap accident an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury near missan accidental collision that is narrowly avoided derailmentan accident in which a train runs off its track ground loopa sharp uncontrollable turn made by an airplane while moving along the ground punctureloss of air pressure in a tire when a hole is made by some sharp object slip, tripan accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall crash(computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative fall, spill, tumblea sudden drop from an upright position collisionan accident resulting from violent impact of a moving object crash, wrecka serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles) accidental injury, injuryan accident that results in physical damage or hurt shipwreck, wreckan accident that destroys a ship at sea casualty, fatal accidentan accident that causes someone to die head crash(computer science) a crash of a read/write head in a hard disk drive (usually caused by contact of the head with the surface of the magnetic disk) bad luck, misfortune unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event |
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