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misfortune [ mis'fɔ:tʃən] n.不幸,灾祸,灾难

塞翁失马,焉知非福 Misfortune may be an actual blessing.

屋漏又逢连阴雨 Misfortunes never come singly. When it rains it pours.

misfortune 不幸;灾难

塞翁失马,焉知非福 Misfortune may be an actual blessing.

屋漏又逢连阴雨 Misfortunes never come singly. When it rains it pours.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
不幸和幸福被我们同样夸大了。我们从不像我们所说的那么痛苦,也从不那么快乐。

Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.
失去的每一小时都构成未来不幸发生的可能。

We have all sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
我们具有极其充足的力量来忍受他人的不幸。

No misfortune can be as great as the loss of time.
再大的不幸也比不上时间的损失。

History, which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
历史实在不过是人类的罪行、蠢事与不幸的记录。

真不走运!
That's unfortunate.
It rained every day while I was in Hawaii. (我在夏威夷那几天,每天下雨。)
That's unfortunate. (真够倒霉的。)
I'm sorry about your misfortune. *更礼貌的说法。
It's unfortunate.

A hero is known in the time of misfortune.
时势造英雄。

Good watch prevents misfortune.
有备无患。

He is unfortunate who cannot bear misfortune.
不能承受不幸的就是不幸。

It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortune.
对己之不幸付之一笑,这是一门伟大的艺术。

Misfortune comes on wings and departs on foot.
遭灾易,消灾难。

Misfortune is a good teacher.
不幸是良师。

Misfortunes come at night.
灾祸常生于不测。

Misfortunes (or Hardships) never (or seldom) come alone (or singly).
祸不单行。

Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
经过灾难方知福。

Misfortunes test the sincerity of friends.
患难见友情。

One misfortune comes on the neck of another.
祸不单行。

Silence is learnt by the may misfortunes of life.
沈默是通过生活中的许多不幸而学会的。

The worst misfortunes are these that never hzppen.
最大的不幸是害怕不会发生的不幸。

To really understand a man we must judge him in misfortune.
要真正了解一个人,需在不幸中考察他。

The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
James Russell Lowell, American Poetess and critic
最难忍受的不幸是那些从未来临的不幸。
美国女诗人、评论家洛威尔J R

The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me .
Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer
对于过去不幸的记忆,构成了新不幸。
西班牙作家塞万提斯M

We have all sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of others. La Rochefoucauld, French writer
我们都有足够的力量来忍受别人的不幸。
法国作家拉罗什富科

Better be unboun than untaught , for ignorance is the root of misfortune.
Plato ,Ancient Greek phiosopher 
与其不受教育,不知不生,因为无知是不幸的根源。
古希腊哲学家柏拉图

misfortune never comes singly 祸不单行

变故 casualty; misfortune; accident

不幸 teen; disaster; doom; evil; fatality; infelicity; mischance; misery; misfortune; sorrow; adversity

变故 [biàn gù] /an unforeseen event/accident/misfortune/

不幸 [bù xìng] /misfortune/adversity/unfortunate/sad/unfortunately/

患 [huàn] /misfortune/suffer (from illness)/trouble/danger/worry/to contract (a disease)/

遭受 [zāo shòu] /suffer/sustain (loss, misfortune)/

It's a rough world out there.
外面是一个危险的世界。
Step outside and you could break a leg slipping on your doormat.
如果你走出去,可能会滑倒在门垫上,摔伤一条腿。
Light up the stove and you could burn down the house.
如果你点燃炉灶,可能会把房子烧掉。
Luckily, if the doormat or stove failed to warn of coming disaster, a successful lawsuit might compensate you for your troubles.
但是假如门垫或炉灶上没有警示语告诉你可能发生的危害,那么你或许可以就自己所受的伤害通过法律诉讼,成功地获得赔偿。
Or so the thinking has gone since the early 1980s, when juries began holding more companies liable for their customers' misfortunes.
大约自80年代初以来人们就不再这样认为了,当时陪审团已开始认为更多的公司应对其顾客所遭受的不幸负责。

{adj: apprehensive, worried} mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc
"apprehensive about her job"
"not used to a city and worried about small things"
"felt apprehensive about the consequences"

{adj: hexed, jinxed} (usually used colloquially) causing or accompanied by misfortune

{adj: precursory, premonitory} warning of future misfortune

{adj: unlucky, luckless} having or bringing misfortune
"Friday the 13th is an unlucky date"
<-> lucky

{adv: thick, thickly} in quick succession
"misfortunes come fast and thick"

{n: Schadenfreude} delight in another person's misfortune

{n: adversity, hardship, hard knocks} a state of misfortune or affliction
"debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"
"a life of hardship"

{n: anxiety} a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune

{n: bottom feeder} an opportunist who profits from the misfortunes of others

{n: calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm} an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
"the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"
"the earthquake was a disaster"

{n: catastrophe, disaster} a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune
"lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system"
"his policies were a disaster"

{n: commiseration, pity, ruth, pathos} a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others
"the blind are too often objects of pity"

{n: evil} that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune
"the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones"- Shakespeare

{n: good fortune, luckiness, good luck} an auspicious state resulting from favorable outcomes
<-> bad luck, misfortune

{n: gutter, sewer, toilet} misfortune resulting in lost effort or money
"his career was in the gutter"
"all that work went down the sewer"
"pensions are in the toilet"

{n: hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk, endangerment} a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
"drinking alcohol is a health hazard"

{n: misery, wretchedness, miserableness} a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
"the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"

{n: misfortune, bad luck, tough luck, ill luck} an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes
<-> good fortune, good luck

{n: misfortune, bad luck} unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event

{n: mishap, misadventure, mischance} an instance of misfortune

{n: sympathizer, sympathiser, comforter} commiserates with someone who has had misfortune

{n: unfortunate, unfortunate person} a person who suffers misfortune

{v: alight, light, perch} to come to rest, settle
"Misfortune lighted upon him"

{v: hoodoo} bring back luck ; be a source of misfortune

Young America's Captain, who had helped coach Team New Zealand to their 1995 victory, seemed a solid contender until his sloop's misfortune.
青年美国号船长贝尔德曾任新西兰帆船队教练,帮助该队勇夺 1995年美洲杯帆船赛冠军。在他的单桅帆船遭遇不幸之前,他的船队似乎是一位强劲的竞争对手。

a misfortune may turn out a blessing

a misfortune may turn out a blessing

a misfortune may turn out a blessing


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