一大筆錢
運氣送到手上最具體的一種東西就是財富，久了這個字本身就用來指那一大筆錢。
large amount of money · noun · B2
A very large amount of money.
財富／一大筆錢
核心畫面
Picture the part of your life you did not choose: which door happened to be open, who happened to call that day. Fortune is that force and what it hands you — and because one of the biggest things it can hand you is money, the word also came to mean a huge pile of it.
可以想成：人生裡不是你選的那一部分——哪一扇門剛好開著、那天剛好是誰打電話來。fortune 講的就是這股沒安排過的…更多收起
可以想成：人生裡不是你選的那一部分——哪一扇門剛好開著、那天剛好是誰打電話來。fortune 講的就是這股沒安排過的力量，以及它遞到你手上的東西。而它能遞給人的東西裡，最顯眼的一樣就是錢，所以這個字後來也用來指一大筆財富。From the picture
Also in this word
luck · noun · B2
Chance or luck, and the effect it has on what happens in your life.
運氣／命運
ups and downs · noun · B2
The good and bad things that happen to a person, team, or company over a period of time.
際遇／起落
fortune-telling · noun · B2
What someone says will happen to you in the future, for example by looking at cards or the lines on your hand.
運勢／算命
原始詞典資料13 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
Fortunename/ˈfɔː.t͡ʃuːn/
- 1
A surname.
- 2
A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
- 3
An unincorporated community in Cross County, Arkansas, United States.
fortunenoun/ˈfɔːtjuːn/
- 1
Destiny, especially favorable.
- She read my fortune. Apparently I will have a good love life this week, but I will have a bad week for money.
- you, who men's fortunes in their faces read
- 2
A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
- 3
A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
- 4
The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.
- 'Tis more by fortune, lady, than by merit.
- 5
Good luck.
- fame and fortune
- Fortune favors the brave.
- 6
One's wealth; the amount of money one has, especially if it is vast.
- He's amassed a small fortune working in the Middle East.
- My vast fortune was a result of inheritance and stock market nous.
- 7
A large amount of money.
- That car must be worth a fortune! How could you afford it?
- Why spend a small fortune on Puma when you could buy Numa, Tuna or Pigg? And why buy Adidas when you can buy Adidos or Avivas? Nike, when there's Nire or Hike? Calvin Klein, when clearly, Calvim Klain or Cavern Kernel are just as good? But remember, after a good workout, be sure to clean up with some Okay shampoo.
fortuneverb/ˈfɔːtjuːn/
- 1
To provide (someone) with a fortune.
- 2
To tell the fortune of (someone); to presage.
- 3
obsoleteTo happen, to take place.
- Thẽ the heerdmẽ⸝ fleed and went there ways into the cite⸝ and tolde every thinge⸝ and what had fortuned vnto them that were poſſeſſed of the devyls.
- It fortuned one night that the Sultan purposed setting out on a journey next morning, […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。