unlucky
英 [ʌnˈlʌki] 美 [ʌnˈlʌki]

adj.

不幸运的，倒霉的；不吉祥的；不顺利的；不凑巧的

英英释义

unlucky[ ,ʌn'lʌki ]

• adj.
  • having or bringing misfortune

    "Friday the 13th is an unlucky date"

    同义词：luckless

  • marked by or promising bad fortune

    "the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"

    同义词：doomedill-fatedill-omenedill-starred

同近义词辨析

unhappy, unfortunate, disastrous, unlucky

这组词都有“不幸的”的意思，其区别是：

unhappy多用于表示心理状态，指由于不满意或遇到一般性倒霉事而感到不愉快。

unfortunate语气较强，多指因命运不佳，意外不幸或事业失败、生活处于困境等而感到不幸。

disastrous着重不可避免和后果严重。

unlucky指因缺少或一时无机遇，虽作了努力，但事不从心，感到失意。

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

1. You were just unlucky.
   你只是运气不好。
2. She was unlucky to catch a cold on the first day of her holiday.
   她太倒霉了，休假第一天就感冒了。
3. It was quite unlucky for anyone to be stolen from.
   对任何人来说，家中失窃绝非幸事。
4. It's considered unlucky to walk under a ladder.
   从梯子下面走过被认为是不吉利的。
5. He has a superstitious thought that black cat are unlucky.
   他有一种迷信的想法认为黑猫不吉祥。

权威例句

An unlucky feeling: Overconfidence and noisy feedback
Minor head injury: 13 is an unlucky number.
The Nassau grouper, endangered or just unlucky
'You are one of the unlucky ones': delay in the diagnosis of endometriosis
Unlucky number 13? Differential effects of KIT exon 13 mutation in gastrointestinal stromal tumors ☆ ☆☆
Financial Disadvantage in Australia -1999: The Unlucky Australians?
The ezetimibe Jonah: the trials and tribulations of an unlucky drug
Gender and work in urban China : women workers of the unlucky generation
Children's biased evaluations of lucky versus unlucky people and their social groups.
How good is good luck? The role of counterfactual thinking in the perception of lucky and unlucky events