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Luckless means you have no luck in the thing you are trying to do — the job, the game, the search keeps going wrong. It is a real word, a little old-fashioned or story-like. Though actually, almost everybody says unlucky instead. You will still meet luckless in headlines (“the luckless ”), novels and slightly talk, often with a shade of pity: not only “the odds were bad”, but “this poor person cannot catch a break”. It can describe people or their attempts: a luckless attempt, a luckless season. It does not automatically mean your whole life is unlucky unless the sentence says so; it usually points at one stretch of bad fortune.
不走運的、倒霉的(比 unlucky 書面、故事腔一點)
原始詞典資料2 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。
lucklessadj
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Unsuccessful, in a failing manner.
- The search party returned dejected from the luckless search.
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Without luck, unfortunate.
- The luckless third-class passengers were required to stand in open wagons (or "Stanhopes"), which were of the same length and width as the carriages, and divided into four compartments by two bars running diagonally across the vehicle and crossing in the middle.
- Agents of the law, luckless pedestrian
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。