misfortunes
misfortunes — 名詞
- misfortunessingular
- misfortunesesplural
1. something bad that happens to you and brings loss, difficulty, or sadness, espec
不幸；厄運
帶來損失或痛苦的壞事
something bad that happens to you and brings loss, difficulty, or sadness, especially when it is caused by bad luck rather than by your own actions — for example, losing your job, having an accident, or having your home damaged by a storm.
After losing his job, Tariq suffered another misfortune when his car broke down on the highway.
失去工作後，Tariq 又遭遇了另一件不幸——他的車在高速公路上抛錨了。
suffer misfortune — common verb + noun collocation
Marta's small bakery survived many misfortunes, from a flood to a broken delivery truck.
Marta 的小麵包店經歷過許多不幸，從水災到送貨卡車故障都挺過來了。
By a strange misfortune, Layla's passport was stolen just before her trip to Japan.
由於一種奇怪的不幸，Layla 的護照在她出發去日本前一天被偷了。
The villagers shared stories of misfortunes — droughts, fires, and illnesses that had shaped their lives.
村民們分享著各種不幸的故事——乾旱、火災和疾病塑造了他們的人生。
William tried to stay cheerful despite the misfortunes that kept following his family.
William 努力保持樂觀，儘管不幸似乎一直跟隨著他的家庭。
- bad luck
more general and less formal; refers to the abstract concept rather than specific events
- adversity
more formal and suggests long-term hardship rather than isolated unlucky events
- hardship
focuses on the difficulty experienced rather than the unlucky cause
- setback
a specific event that delays or reverses progress; milder than misfortune
文法句型
suffer + misfortunes
a series of + misfortunes
by + misfortune (adverbial phrase)
用法筆記
Commonly used in the plural form (misfortunes) to describe a series of bad events. As an uncountable noun it refers to the general state of bad luck ('Misfortune seemed to follow them everywhere').