- 1命運多舛的、不祥的（文學用語；日常比較會說「倒霉」或「注定不順」）
Ill-starred is a literary, slightly old-fashioned word for people, love, trips, or plans that seem born to go wrong — unlucky, and likely to bring a lot of trouble or sadness. It comes from the old idea that the stars you are born under shape your luck: an “ill star” meant a bad fate. Writers use it for doomed love, doomed journeys, doomed businesses. You will almost never hear it in a shop; you will meet it in novels, film reviews, and school literature. Though actually, it does not mean the person is a “star” (a famous person), and it does not mean they are sick. Everyday English prefers “unlucky” or “doomed”; this word keeps a storybook taste.
組成ill (bad) + starred (marked by the stars). The picture is luck written in the stars, not Hollywood stars.
同家族的字
- star-crossedsame old idea: the stars of fate are against you
- ill-fatedsame “ill-” of bad luck, with “fate” instead of stars
原始詞典資料1 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。
ill-starredadj
- 1
Doomed to a bad fate; hapless.
- "Do not name it!" answered he, passionately. "God forgive me! I cannot yet bear its name. But for its ill-starred birth, Henriette might now be living. What is there in that unconscious infant to replace its mother?"
- […] it appears the possibility of the ill-starred Uxbridge-Rickmansworth rail link being built is now bound up with post-war planning. [it was never built]
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。