- 1逆境、困境
Adversity is a hard stretch of life — problems that pile up and seem to come from bad luck, illness, no money, war, or things you did not choose. People say someone showed courage “in the face of adversity.” That phrase is a little formal, the kind you hear in speeches and school essays. Younger speakers more often say “when things were really hard.” The word names the situation, not a person and not the sad feeling inside you. Though actually it is not only “bad luck”: some adversity is unfair systems or long illness, not just a string of unlucky days. English often keeps it uncountable: in adversity. You meet adversity; you do not “do” adversity.
組成From Old French adversité, from Latin adversitātem (the accusative of adversitās), from adversus, the perfect passive participle of advertō (“to turn toward”). So the old picture is something that has turned against you.
同家族的字
- adversesame Latin adversus; unfavourable, as in adverse weather
- adversarysame root, but a person who stands against you, not the hardship itself
- adversarialsame family; describes a fight between sides
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
adversitynoun/ædˈvɜː.sɪ.ti/
- 1
The state of adverse conditions; state of misfortune or calamity.
- The doctor loved the squire, loved him as his oldest friend; but he loved him ten times better as being in adversity than he could ever have done had things gone well at Greshansbury in his time.
- God approves all adversity. Not all adversity that the Christian encounters is due to sins in the Christian's life. Not all adversity is the fault of the Christian.
- 2
An event that is adverse; calamity.
- Having “secret notice,” the writer of “True Remembrances” declares of the above complains, he retired into Munster, intending to proceed to England, to justify himself; but was detained there for want of money by the breaking out of rebellion. This adversity befell him in the autumn of 1598.
- Every family is struck by adversity at one time or another. No matter how mature the patients are, regardless of the care an advantages they give their children, despite a desirable interactive love between family members, adversity will attack any family
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