ADJ-GRADED 不幸的;倒霉的 If you describe someone as unfortunate, you mean that something unpleasant or unlucky has happened to them. You can also describe the unpleasant things that happen to them as unfortunate .
Some unfortunate person passing below could all too easily be seriously injured... 从下面经过的倒霉蛋儿很容易受重伤。
Apparently he had been unfortunate enough to fall victim to a gang of thugs... 他显然不幸落入了一群歹徒之手。
Through some unfortunate accident, the information reached me a day late... 由于发生了不幸的意外,我知道消息的时候已经晚了一天。
It was unfortunate for Davey that his teacher did not take kindly to him. 戴维真倒霉,老师不喜欢他。
ADJ-GRADED 不恰当的;尴尬的;棘手的 If you describe something that has happened as unfortunate, you think that it is inappropriate, embarrassing, awkward, or undesirable.
It really is desperately unfortunate that this should have happened just now. 刚才竟发生这样的事儿,实在是太不合时宜了。
...the unfortunate incident of the upside-down Canadian flag... 加拿大国旗挂颠倒这种尴尬事儿
He made the unfortunate mistake of promising he would quit if the budget deficit was still out of control. 他犯了个愚蠢的错误,承诺说如果预算赤字还失控,他就辞职。
ADJ-GRADED 穷困潦倒的;生活艰难的 You can describe someone as unfortunate when they are poor or have a difficult life.
Every year we have charity days to raise money for unfortunate people. 每年我们都有慈善日来筹款帮助贫困人群。
...the unfortunate inhabitants of the East End slums. 伦敦东区贫民窟穷困潦倒的居民
An unfortunate is someone who is unfortunate. 不幸的人
Dorothy was another of life's unfortunates. 多萝西是又一个生活中的不幸者。
I also have my patients, and then, too, I have some whom I call my unfortunates. 首先我有他们称为病人的病人,其次我还有我称为不幸的人的病人。
Unlike many other poor unfortunates, I do have a job. 我同许多不幸的人不一样,我是有工作的。
The worst include children of unfortunates who left school during the1980s recession and have never worked since. 而最糟糕的情况就是80年代的经济萧条下而辍学的穷孩子们,那时起他们就再没有工作的机会了。
Hus, if not actually happy, yet the days these two unfortunates passed together went quickly. 于是,这两个不幸的人往后的日子,虽然说不上幸福的日子,但也一天天地过得很快。
He was one of the poor unfortunates who invested in the company and now finds himself a few thousand pounds poorer. 他是那些投资于这个公司的可怜的不幸者之一,发现自己亏了几千英镑。
Those unfortunates and sorrows were closely related to the objective environment and the social systems, which was the social causes of the tragedy. 悲剧人物的痛苦与毁灭等诸多不幸与客观环境和社会制度有着内在联系,这是悲剧命运的社会根源。