| 单词 | hapless |
| 释义 | hapless (once / 1580 pages) adj Use the adjective hapless to describe someone unlucky and deserving of pity, like the hapless car buyer who gives in to the fast-talking salesperson. The word hapless traces all the way back to the Old Norse word happ, meaning “chance, good luck.” Combine this with the suffix -less (“lacking”) and hapless means “unlucky” or “ill-fated.” A traveler who goes to Moscow and briefly gets lost on the subway? Just a tourist. A traveler who goes to Moscow, accidentally eats food he is allergic to, somehow loses all his money, and by chance gets on a train destined for Mongolia? Definitely hapless. WORD FAMILYhapless: haplessly+/hap: hapless, happed, happing, haps, mishap/mishap: mishaps USAGE EXAMPLESJimmy Carter watched haplessly as the Soviets marched into Afghanistan and the Iranians held America hostage for 444 days. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) He was booed on miscommunication with some of his hapless receivers. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) The running back attempted a tackle, but he bounced off Anderson like a hapless extra in a kung-fu movie. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) adj deserving or inciting pity a hapless victim Syn miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched unfortunate not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune |
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