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Picture luck standing on the other side: something bad has landed on a person or a situation, and nobody planned it or deserved it. The word points at the bad outcome while quietly saying 'this was not anyone's doing'.
可以想成運氣站到了另一邊：壞事落在某個人或某件事上，而這個人並沒有做錯什麼，也沒有人存心安排。unfortunate…更多收起
可以想成運氣站到了另一邊：壞事落在某個人或某件事上，而這個人並沒有做錯什麼，也沒有人存心安排。unfortunate 一邊指出結果不好，一邊帶著一句沒說出口的話——「這不能怪誰」。所以它既能用來同情人（他很倒楣），也能用來評論局面（真可惜），語氣通常比較克制、不激動。原始詞典資料5 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。
unfortunateadj/ʌnˈfɔː.t͡ʃə.nɪt/
- 1
Not favored by fortune.
- Thus ended the life of one of the most unfortunate of small railway concerns.
- 2
Marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune.
- But as the tower and towee reached the cross-roads again, another car, negligently driven, came round the corner, hit the Morris, and severed the tow rope, sending the unfortunate car back again into the shop window[…]
- 3
Regrettable or unsuitable.
unfortunatenoun/ʌnˈfɔː.t͡ʃə.nɪt/
- 1
An unlucky person; one who has fallen into bad circumstances.
- Of those adults who used the trains every day, about half now travel daily by bus, [...] one unfortunate is reported to be walking to and from his employment.
- Unlike the unfortunates aboard the Triumph, we viewers are in and out of the situation in under an hour and feel like we have had quite a lot of fun in the process.
- 2
archaicA prostitute.
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。