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单词 a run of good luck
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a run of good luck
run of luck n. originally Gambling a series of (esp. favourable) outcomes or occurrences attributed to luck or chance; (also) a series of occurrences or outcomes of a specified kind, as a run of good luck, a run of bad luck, etc.
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1722 Weekly Jrnl. 20 Jan. 984/1 Statesmen..have had such a Run of Luck in some Kingdoms, as now and then to strip a whole Nation.
1780 E. Beetham Moral Lect. on Heads 26 There is not so fluctuating a state of life as that of a man of play... Sometimes, elated with an amazing run of luck, he shines in all the gaiety of dress, and revels in all the luxuries of life.
1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 294/2 A space of nearly two years, during which time he had a most uninterrupted run of good luck.
1885 Amer. Machinist 25 Apr. 4/1 The curious run of bad luck that some locomotives have.
1901 G. Ade 40 Mod. Fables 156 Adams had a Run of Luck and he crowded it.
1953 A. L. Marriott Hell on Horses & Women ix. 110 They hit a run of hard luck, too, after they had been on the place a few years.
2005 Irish Times 2 Sept. a5/1 The company indicated that its poor run of luck continued during the summer.
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