英语单词 | ill-fated |
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英美音标 | 英 美 |
中文释义 | adj.注定要倒霉的;苦命的;不幸的 |
英语例句 | (1) More unhappiness followed Mansfield when she became seriously ill. |
中文例句 | (1) 在她患重病时,不幸的事接踵而来。 |
vocabulary简明 | If you have terrible luck, you're ill-fated. An ill-fated plan to drive across the country might end with your old car breaking down in Kansas. |
vocabulary扩展 | An ill-fated day is one you remember for years as extremely unlucky, and an ill-fated decision, in retrospect, was a really bad choice. An ill-fated attempt at tightrope walking results in falling off over and over again, and an ill-fated choice of lunch in a foreign country might end in food poisoning. Ill-fated is rooted in ill-, "badly," and fated, "be destined to happen," from the Latin fatum, "that which has been spoken." |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ 形容词]倒霉的;注定要倒霉的;注定没有好结果的 If you describe something as ill-fated, you mean that it ended or will end in an unsuccessful or unfortunate way. [usu ADJ n]
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