核心畫面
Picture the part of life you cannot control — the coin that could land either way. Unlucky is when it keeps landing badly on you: you did nothing wrong, you made no mistake, chance simply went against you. From there the word also covers a thing people believe will make the coin fall badly, like the number 13.
可以想成人生裡你控制不了的那一半——那枚往上拋、兩面都有可能的硬幣。unlucky 就是它老是往壞的那面落在你身上：…更多收起
可以想成人生裡你控制不了的那一半——那枚往上拋、兩面都有可能的硬幣。unlucky 就是它老是往壞的那面落在你身上：你沒有做錯什麼、也不是能力不夠，純粹是機率沒站在你這邊。從這個畫面再往外一步，它也可以指「大家相信會讓那枚硬幣落壞面」的東西，比如數字 13。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。
unluckyadj/ʌnˈlʌki/
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Unfortunate, marked by misfortune.
- I pray you in your Letters, / When you ſhall theſe vnluckie deeds relate, / Speake of me, as I am. […] / Of one, whoſe ſubdu'd Eyes, / Albeit un-vsed to the melting moode, / Drops teares as faſt as the Arabian Trees / Their Medicinable gumme.
- "So he has a chance," said Connie. "Buckley's chance, the way his luck is. Fell out with his girl he did, and lost his job, and now 'e's goin' to lose 'is life. The unluckiest man that ever lived."
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Inauspicious.
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Having ill luck.
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Bringing ill luck.
- Country like Nepal, India, Bhutan and Myanmar, people who follows Hindu religion, they consider the numbers 0, 1, 8, 10, 12, 19 and 28 as unlucky numbers, bad luck or evil spirits etc. These numbers are called oudenophobia, henophobia, octophobia, decaphobia, dodecaphobia, enneadecaphobia and eikosioctophobia respectively.
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obsoleteMischievous.
- “The brat continued yelpin' an' yowlin', an' aitin' more nor his three brothers put together, an' playin' all sorts uv unlucky thricks, for he was mighty mischievyously inclined, till it happened one day that Tim Carrol, the blind piper, goin' his rounds, called in and sot down by the fire to hav' a bit o' chat wid the woman o' the house.”
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。