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Adversity Circumstances Bad People əd'vɜːrsəti N.不幸 Acquainted World

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Pron [əd'vɜːrsəti]
Back 【adversity】
n.不幸
He that never was acquainted with adversity has seen the world but on one side.
从未遭遇逆境的他只了解世界的一面。
Vocab
adversitya state of misfortune or affliction

When circumstances or situations work against you, you face adversity. Refugees from war-torn countries encounter terrible adversity.

Adversity, a noun which has been part of the English language for over 800 years, comes from the Latin adversus, literally "turned against," and figuratively "hostile or unfavorable." When things seem against you — circumstances or a stoke of bad luck — you are facing adversity. Sometimes people use a form of the phrase "turning adversity into opportunity." This refers to the ability some people or companies have to take a bad situation and make it into a successful one.

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