| 单词 | mishap |
| 释义 | mishap (once / 1512 pages) n Don’t cry over spilled milk, it is just a minor mishap — a misfortune. If the surgeon operates on the wrong leg when you go in for knee surgery? Now, that’s a mishap to get upset about. You might assume that hap is short for happening, but it is actually an Old Norse word for "luck." So with mis ("bad") in front of it, it literally means “bad luck.” Mishaps can be accidents of great consequence or minimal consequence. People often say that an event went off “without a mishap,” meaning that it went smoothly. Hopefully this will be the case if you ever get knee surgery. WORD FAMILYmishap: mishaps+/hap: hapless, happed, happing, haps, mishap/hapless: haplessly USAGE EXAMPLESHere are some of the most awkward mishaps on record: Time(Jan 01, 2017) Regan, 29, wrote the story, attracting thousands of readers to Borderstan, and publications across the country wrote their own stories on the flatulence mishap. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) In the final part, we look back at the fails, the mishaps and false steps of the year: BBC(Dec 22, 2016) 1n an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate Syn|Hyper bad luck, mischance 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, mischance 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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