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单词 to make one's fortune
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to make one's fortune
5. One's condition or standing in life; often absol. a prosperous condition, as in to make one's fortune = to win a good position in the world. Also plural.
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the mind > possession > wealth > be rich [verb (intransitive)] > become rich
gather?c1225
richa1375
purchasec1387
increasea1425
enrich1525
to feather one's nest1583
to make a, one's fortune1596
to make one's fortunea1616
fatten1638
accumulate1747
to fill one's pipe1821
to shake the pagoda-tree1825
pyramid1926
the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > that which is ordained by fate > personal destiny or one's lot
lotOE
chance1297
fallc1300
weirds1320
cuta1340
fatec1374
vie1377
parta1382
foredoom1563
event1577
allotment1586
fatality1589
kincha1600
lines1611
fortunea1616
dispensation1704
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) i. ii. 241 My pride fell with my fortunes . View more context for this quotation
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης ii. 14 A private conscience sorts not with a public Calling; but declares that Person rather meant by nature for a private fortune.
1677 J. Dryden State Innocence v. i. 34 No; he shall eat, and dye with me, or live: Our equal crimes shall equal fortune give.
1680 T. Otway Orphan i. 2 Unable to advance her Fortune, He left this Daughter to our Masters care.
1683 W. Hacke Coll. Orig. Voy. (1699) i. 23 Had reason but ruled them, we might all have made our Fortunes.
1807 Salmagundi 1 Oct. 321 If you only now and then make a great man laugh your fortune is made.
1885 J. Ruskin Præterita I. v. 142 John..went soon to push his fortune in Australia.
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