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单词 extreme fortune
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extreme fortune
a. The chance or luck (good or bad) which falls to any one as his lot in life or in a particular affair. Also in plural. †extreme fortune (= Latin res extremæ): the last extremity.
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c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) ii. metr. iii. 27 Wol~thow thanne trusten in the tomblynge fortunes of men?
?a1400 Morte Arth. 1177 Ne had my fortune bene faire, fey had I leuede!
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope 2 First begynneth the lyf of Esope with alle his fortune.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccccii. 698 He that hath any yuell fortune, men wyll speke the worst therof.
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour ii. ii. sig. Oij It is no litle thynge to meruaile at, the maiestie showed in extreme fortune and misery.
1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias 5 b Thanking God for their..good fortune in this their first brunt of daunger.
1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 163 Chiefely the mould of a Mans fortune is in himselfe.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iv. v. 44 To know if it were my Masters fortune to haue her, or no. View more context for this quotation
1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. ii. i. 22 It was my fortune to be at the Helm from 6 a Clock in the Evening till 8.
1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 125 The Women of Morocco, I mean all that I had the Fortune to see, were very handsome.
1752 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 3 Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xvi. 584 Scotland was now doomed to wait on the fortunes of her more powerful ally.
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond II. iii. 60 Some good fortune at least occurred to a family which stood in great need of it.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iii. §2. 121 On the fortunes of Philip hung the fortunes of English freedom.
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