英语词汇“to fall into a misfortune”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. regional and colloquial (euphemistic). to fall into (also have, meet with) a misfortune: to become pregnant outside marriage; to have an illegitimate child. Hence also: (the fact of having) an illegitimate child.

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1756 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1965) VI. (at cited word) Your Petitioner fell into a Misfortune not uncommon to Women of her low Rank.

1801 Har'st Rig (ed. 2) liii. 19 She wi' a Misfortune met, And had a Bairn.

1835 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 42 It would be difficult for me to say that an Annandale woman's virtue is the worse for a misfortune.

1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. iii. 18 ‘If you please, ma'am, I had a misfortune, ma'am,’ replied the girl, casting down her eyes.

a1871 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) II. 156 A special ‘misfortune’ (so they delicately name it), being of Esther's own producing. ‘Misfortune’ in the shape ultimately of a solid tall ditcher.

a1881 T. Carlyle in New Lett. Jane W. Carlyle (1903) I. 59 [‘Wee Jen’] Ann Cook's ‘misfortune’.

1881 A. Trollope Dr. Wortle's School I. iv. 75 Why should he be doomed to drag her with him as a log tied to his foot, seeing that a woman with a misfortune is condemned by the general voice of the world.

1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 186 Misfortune, the giving birth to an illegitimate child.

单词	to fall into a misfortune
释义	> as lemmas to fall into (also have, meet with) a misfortune 2. regional and colloquial (euphemistic). to fall into (also have, meet with) a misfortune: to become pregnant outside marriage; to have an illegitimate child. Hence also: (the fact of having) an illegitimate child. ΚΠ 1756 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1965) VI. (at cited word) Your Petitioner fell into a Misfortune not uncommon to Women of her low Rank. 1801 Har'st Rig (ed. 2) liii. 19 She wi' a Misfortune met, And had a Bairn. 1835 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 42 It would be difficult for me to say that an Annandale woman's virtue is the worse for a misfortune. 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. iii. 18 ‘If you please, ma'am, I had a misfortune, ma'am,’ replied the girl, casting down her eyes. a1871 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) II. 156 A special ‘misfortune’ (so they delicately name it), being of Esther's own producing. ‘Misfortune’ in the shape ultimately of a solid tall ditcher. a1881 T. Carlyle in New Lett. Jane W. Carlyle (1903) I. 59 [‘Wee Jen’] Ann Cook's ‘misfortune’. 1881 A. Trollope Dr. Wortle's School I. iv. 75 Why should he be doomed to drag her with him as a log tied to his foot, seeing that a woman with a misfortune is condemned by the general voice of the world. 1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 186 Misfortune, the giving birth to an illegitimate child. extracted from misfortunen. < as lemmas
随便看	unmosaic unmossed unmoth-eaten unmotheaten unmothered unmotherliness unridge unridiculed unridiculous unrife unrifled unrig unrigged unrigging unright unrighted unrighted wrong unrighteous unrighteously unrighteousness unrighteousnesses unrightful unrightfully unrightfulness unrightly

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