misfortune的意思|misfortune的解释-里氏词典

misfortune [mɪs'fɔrtʃən]

n. 不幸, 灾祸, 坏运气

[法] 不幸事故, 不幸, 灾祸

misfortune

[ noun ]

unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event

<noun.event>

an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes

<noun.state>

Misfortune \Mis*for"tune\, n.
Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster;
mishap; mischance.

Consider why the change was wrought,
You 'll find his misfortune, not his fault. --Addison.

Syn: Calamity; mishap; mischance; misadventure; ill; harm;
disaster. See {Calamity}.

Misfortune \Mis*for"tune\, v. i.
To happen unluckily or unfortunately; to miscarry; to fail.
[Obs.] --Stow.

Ana Quirot has had the misfortune to be Cuban in a decade when politics have been as big a factor at the Olympics as the stopwatch. Since the early 1980s she has been winning World Cups and Pan-American titles.
During the ages, Tisha Be-Av had become a symbol of misfortune and persecution that befell the Jewish people.
The participating men brought their family's and community's potential for misfortune with them to the shrine.
But fresh management and the misfortune of other airlines may not be enough.
Chandra Shekhar, who replaced V.P. Singh on Nov. 10, promised to "bring this country out of a muddy mire of misery and misfortune."
Those who accept a gift at face value may merely be conniving in their own misfortune.
Since then she has been dogged by misfortune, some of it self-inflicted with repeated changes in the crucial navigator role.
It is thus ScottishPower's misfortune to have been the government's third attempt to price correctly the UK electricity industry.
Perhaps best of all, they offer some measure of protection against just about any foreseeable financial misfortune, whether the economy gets too hot or too cold.
But his offer is so kind I take it anyway. Does one ask for a sign-language explanation of such a misfortune in the middle of Saigon's anarchic traffic?
Peter Jonas has had the misfortune to start his new job in Munich with an artistic flop.
One was Mr. Cassoni's misfortune in having begun the reorganization in January 1989, just as the European computer market shifted into low gear.
At the political level, the disparity between their good fortune and the misfortune of those made poor by recession is an easy target.
"It is a great misfortune for our literature that the young generation has been deprived of the possibility of reading his books.
Yet governments inevitably worry about the impact on their finances of underprovision by individuals for retirement and misfortune.
His words captured the mood of the continent at a critical moment. Three disastrous decades later, ravaged by mismanagement and misfortune, Africa is once again at a watershed, beset by problems which can only be overcome with external help.
But for decade after decade misfortune seemed to visit little Valdez, with uncommon regularity, mostly fires, sometimes disease.
The government's misfortune is that the revenue from 'invisible' taxes with a low political profile (oil royalties, Petroleum Revenue Tax, corporation tax) has now to be replaced with much more visible (and therefore unpopular) tax increases.
Even in their politics they have a shared suspicion of the European Community. Mrs Castle's misfortune was to have been born too early - four years before the outbreak of the first world war.
"The great misfortune for history and the people was that when the old Leninist guard was left without Lenin, it removed one from the helm, but left the other one on the captain's bridge of the party.
Mr. Thymius has the misfortune of working in one of the most unpromising places in New York for meeting unattached women.
In 1932 and '33 it was one of the most appealing parts of the Nazi party's propaganda campaigns that Germany's misfortune was the result of a "conspiracy of international and Jewish financiers."
Lasser had the misfortune of being installed at the time.
Finding opportunity in others' misfortune, speculators invest and trade in the debt of distressed companies.
"They dragged us to the point that all we knew was misfortune and sadness, and now must be brought to justice," he said.
In his view, Warner is far too loose with its shareholders' money and is thus vulnerable to another misfortune like the Atari disaster, which occurred when Warner failed to anticipate the collapse of the videogame industry in 1982.
The seven Democrats, of course, had the misfortune of lending themselves collectively to association with a famous Walt Disney movie.
If anything had happened to Katzenberg, it would have been the third piece of serious misfortune to strike Disney's top management in almost as many months.
Moreover, it is always a misfortune when a subordinate initiates a dominant plan or policy.
Medvene has said Zuno merely had the misfortune of having a house that was sold to Caro, a reputed drug who allegedly masterminded Camerena's murder in that house.

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