| 单词 | unlucky |
| 释义 | un·lucky 1. < this has been an unlucky year for us > 2. < born under an unlucky star > 3. < the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons — W.H.Prescott > 4. dialect chiefly England 5. < the unlucky fact is that … it is not a formal biography — Times Literary Supplement > Synonyms: < if you're unlucky enough to lose or break your glasses — Richard Joseph > < the loss of over $200,000 in an unlucky coffee speculation — H.G.Pearson > < the child who is born on an unlucky day — Abram Kardiner > < an unlucky throw of the dice > disastrous, applying to anything that is or brings calamity, applies often to anything that has a calamitous fate < a disastrous flood > < in so disastrous a plight that he died on the following day — W.H.Prescott > < a disastrous armaments race — Current Biography > < a disastrous expedition against a superior force > ill-starred is interchangeable with disastrous both in the sense of bringing calamity < the ill-starred depression year of 1929 — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union > and in the sense of having or doomed to have a calamitous fate < the return trip was ill-starred: they narrowly escaped a serious accident — Willa Cather > < the ill-starred fellow is pummeled on deck — Herman Melville > < the ill-starred lady who perished — Allen Upward > ill-fated is ill-starred in the second of the two senses suggested immediately above < an ill-fated expedition that perished at sea > unfortunate, though often interchangeable with unlucky, is weaker in implying mere bad luck < an unfortunate day at the races > and stronger in suggesting misfortune, misery, or desolation < expecting some unfortunate woman to instruct simultaneously a crowd of fifty urchins of all degrees of ignorance and stupidity — C.H.Grandgent > < assist an unfortunate people suffering the calamities of war > though it can often mean only regrettable < the building was completed with unfortunate stylistic admixtures — American Guide Series: New York > luckless and hapless usually apply to a person or thing notably or chronically unfortunate < the luckless small investors were ruined — O.S.Nock > < all his speculations had of late gone wrong with the luckless old gentleman — W.M.Thackeray > < as the sea dried up, the hapless ship sank beneath shifting dunes — American Guide Series: California > < these hapless creatures now wander as displaced persons — R.H.Jackson > |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含332784条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。