| 单词 | fortune |
| 释义 | fortune —fortuneless, adj. /fawr"cheuhn/, n. , v. , fortuned, fortuning. n. 1. position in life as determined by wealth: to make one's fortune. 2. wealth or riches: to lose a small fortune in bad investments. 3. great wealth; ample stock of money, property, and the like: to be worth a fortune. 4. chance; luck: They each had the bad fortune to marry the wrong person. 5. fortunes. things that happen or are to happen to a person in his or her life. 6. fate; lot; destiny: whatever my fortune may be. 7. (cap.) chance personified, commonly regarded as a mythical being distributing arbitrarily or capriciously the lots of life: Perhaps Fortune will smile on our venture. 8. good luck; success; prosperity: a family blessed by fortune. 9. Archaic. a wealthy woman; an heiress. 10. tell someone's fortune, to profess to inform someone of future events in his or her own life; foretell. v.t. 11. Archaic. to endow (someone or something) with a fortune. v.i. 12. Archaic. to chance or happen; come by chance. [1250-1300; ME < OF < L fortuna chance, luck, fortune, deriv. of fort- (s. of fors) chance] Syn. 4. fate, destiny, providence; kismet, karma. 7. Moira; Lady Luck. |
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