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单词 misadventure
释义 mis·adventure
\“+\ noun
Etymology: Middle English mesaventure, mesadventure, misaventure, from Old French mesaventure, from mesavenir to chance badly, happen badly (from mes- mis- (I) + avenir to chance, happen, from Latin advenire to come to), after Old French avenir : aventure adventure — more at advene, adventure
1.
 a. : calamitous misfortune : disaster
  < a record of misadventure by shipwreck — Times Literary Supplement >
 especially : a piece of bad luck : mishap
  < his marital misadventures (his first wife was a prostitute, his second a shrew) — G.N.Ray >
 b. law : an accident that causes serious injury or death to a human being and that does not involve negligence, wrongful purpose, or unlawful conduct
  < a verdict of death by misadventure >
2. : a minor and sometimes ridiculous mishap : blunder
 < this happy-souled and sometimes uproarious book … belongs to the domestic misadventure school — Time >
 < his misadventures as a young immigrant in search of an unknown uncle — Wallace Markfield >
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