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 hapless ['hæplɪs]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 倒霉的, 不幸的

  1. His hapless lover was knocked down by a car.
    他那不幸的恋人被汽车撞倒了。
  2. Forthwith there escaped a multitude of plagues for hapless man- such as gout, rheumatism, and colic for his body, and envy, spite, and revenge for his mind- and scattered themselves for and wide.
    立刻从里面冲出一大群使人遭受不幸的灾难--如折磨人肉体的痛风、风湿、腹痛;折磨人心灵的忌妒、怨恨、复仇---向四方飞散。
  3. Snipers and irregulars fell on the hapless patrol.
    狙击兵和非正规军袭击了巡逻队


hapless
[ adj ]
deserving or inciting pity
<adj.all>
a hapless victimmiserable victims of war
the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic
piteous appeals for help
pitiable homeless children
a pitiful fate
Oh, you poor thing
his poor distorted limbs
a wretched life


Hapless \Hap"less\ (h[a^]p"l[e^]s), a.
Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy;
as, hapless youth; hapless maid. --Dryden.

  1. "I got friends who never use paragraphs," one reasons, "and they make a lot more money than teachers do." One of those hapless teachers is Miles Bannon, a guilt-saturated Everyman.
  2. Then there are Alan Silver's neighborhood pals, Warren (Aeryk Egan) and the hapless Benny (Jake Jundef).
  3. The 1984 mock documentary follows hapless rockers on tour, their future imperiled by a rift with the band's co-founder.
  4. The form even inspired a CBS sitcom parody in 1966-67, "Run Buddy Run," in which a hapless man was on the run from gangsters.
  5. Lula's alcoholic, nymphomaniac mother _ played by Dern's real-life mother, Diane Ladd _ tries in vain to get rid of the hapless Sailor.
  6. So will the scenery, through which Jaclyn Smith (the publisher's wife) makes her hapless way.
  7. Holly Hunter brings a kind of pinched wistfulness to the hapless Ed.
  8. They suggest that far from being a hapless bystander in BCCI's affairs, the sheik and his government were major participants in the bank's business, sometimes even treating it as a kind of global piggy bank.
  9. Don't let the coming attractions showing a sultry Jodie Foster lure you into thinking that there's anything interesting about this hapless little coming-of-age picture.
  10. Clerks are keeping spares handy to rent or lend to hapless victims.
  11. A relatively strong US economy, combined with dismal performance almost everywhere else, is the opposite of what the hapless Mr Nicholas Brady had to face throughout his term of office.
  12. Today, he argues, politically correct faculty and administrators impose their self-righteous ideology on hapless students.
  13. The hapless opposition can't even make a row out of the recession.
  14. Liberals are not only not allowed to deviate from the claims of their most extreme members on any of these matters, they will be denounced or driven out if they do. And so Congress's hapless Democrats end up making a no-win defense of flag burners.
  15. Furthermore, it leaves Steele and his sidekick Billy Boyle - large and discouraged but comically graceful, even subtle - doing full-dress professional drag acts, without a shred of excuse in the story nor their hapless characters.
  16. Unlike Mr Lamont, hapless servant of his predecessor and boss, Mr Clarke may decide for himself.
  17. The execution of several hapless individuals had been expected.
  18. Following the basic line worked out at the White House, Mr. Meese used the news conference to portray Ollie North as Rasputin to a hapless president.
  19. And he had an undeniable cruel streak, which he unleashed verbally against Frazier and such hapless foes as Floyd Patterson and Ernie Terrell, all fellow blacks.
  20. Ostensibly, these are strong women who have struck out on their own in a world full of men who are either pigs or hapless creatures who try to help and can't.
  21. But he is best known, according to the daily Yediot Ahronot, as the head of a team of 15 Mossad agents who set out to kill a leading Palestinian terrorist but instead murdered a hapless Moroccan-born waiter in a Norwegian resort.
  22. But the Republicans have taken the offensive in a process that in the past often made them hapless victims.
  23. "He was always up," said Bob Denver, who played Gilligan, the hapless mate.
  24. Painting him as hapless and helpless won't be easy.
  25. At the end, when the new Rachel comes face to face with her past, Ms. Bartlett makes her hapless character the very picture of heartbreak, with great subtlety and economy.
  26. And he's hoping other crossovers will include early 1992 releases such as "Wayne's World," based on a popular sketch from NBC's "Saturday Night Live" TV show, and "Lady Bugs," a comedy about a hapless girls soccer team, starring Rodney Dangerfield.
  27. Based on Evelyn Waugh's savage 1934 novel, the $6 million film co-stars James Wilby (Graves' co-star last year in "Maurice") as Lady Brenda's hapless husband, Tony.
  28. The action was noticed by the hapless speaker's superior.
  29. Finally, there was the humiliating moment when all six of them sat on the hapless suspect.
  30. In it, a hapless young Wall Streeter is accosted with stock-market secrets by his girlfriend, his parking-lot attendant, strangers in the men's room and runners in Central Park.
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