fortune 音標拼音: [f'ɔrtʃən] [f'ɔrtʃun]
n . 財富,運氣,興隆,大量財產,好運,命運
財富,運氣,興隆,大量財產,好運,命運
fortune n 1 :
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another ; "
bad luck caused his downfall "; "
we ran into each other by pure chance " [
synonym : {
luck }, {
fortune }, {
chance }, {
hazard }]
2 :
a large amount of wealth or prosperity 3 :
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome ; "
it was my good luck to be there "; "
they say luck is a lady "; "
it was as if fortune guided his hand "
[
synonym : {
luck }, {
fortune }]
4 :
your overall circumstances or condition in life (
including everything that happens to you ); "
whatever my fortune may be "; "
deserved a better fate "; "
has a happy lot "; "
the luck of the Irish "; "
a victim of circumstances "; "
success that was her portion " [
synonym : {
fortune }, {
destiny }, {
fate }, {
luck },
{
lot }, {
circumstances }, {
portion }]
Fortune \
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n . [
F .
fortune ,
L .
fortuna ;
akin to fors ,
fortis ,
chance ,
prob .
fr .
ferre to bear ,
bring .
See {
Bear }
to support ,
and cf . {
Fortuitous }.]
1 .
The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner ;
chance ;
accident ;
luck ;
hap ;
also ,
the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success ,
apportioning happiness and unhappiness ,
and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life .
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'
T is more by fortune ,
lady ,
than by merit . --
Shak .
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O Fortune ,
Fortune ,
all men call thee fickle .
--
Shak .
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2 .
That which befalls or is to befall one ;
lot in life ,
or event in any particular undertaking ;
fate ;
destiny ;
as ,
to tell one '
s fortune .
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You ,
who men '
s fortunes in their faces read .
--
Cowley .
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3 .
That which comes as the result of an undertaking or of a course of action ;
good or ill success ;
especially ,
favorable issue ;
happy event ;
success ;
prosperity as reached partly by chance and partly by effort .
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Our equal crimes shall equal fortune give . --
Dryden .
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There is a tide in the affairs of men ,
Which ,
taken at the flood ,
leads on to fortune .
--
Shak .
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His father dying ,
he was driven to seek his fortune .
--
Swift .
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4 .
Wealth ;
large possessions ;
large estate ;
riches ;
as ,
a gentleman of fortune .
Syn :
Chance ;
accident ;
luck ;
fate .
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{
Fortune book },
a book supposed to reveal future events to those who consult it . --
Crashaw .
{
Fortune hunter },
one who seeks to acquire wealth by marriage .
{
Fortune teller },
one who professes to tell future events in the life of another .
{
Fortune telling },
the practice or art of professing to reveal future events in the life of another .
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Fortune \
For "
tune \,
v .
t . [
OF .
fortuner ,
L .
fortunare .
See {
Fortune },
n .]
1 .
To make fortunate ;
to give either good or bad fortune to .
[
Obs .] --
Chaucer .
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2 .
To provide with a fortune . --
Richardson .
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3 .
To presage ;
to tell the fortune of . [
Obs .] --
Dryden .
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Fortune \
For "
tune \,
v .
i .
To fall out ;
to happen .
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It fortuned the same night that a Christian ,
serving a Turk in the camp ,
secretely gave the watchmen warning .
--
Knolles .
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179 Moby Thesaurus words for "
fortune ":
Clio ,
Friday ,
Friday the thirteenth ,
Muse of history ,
accidentality ,
actuarial calculation ,
adventitiousness ,
adventures ,
affluence ,
annals ,
appointed lot ,
assets ,
astral influences ,
astrology ,
autobiography ,
beggared ,
biographical sketch ,
biography ,
blessing ,
bomb ,
boodle ,
book of fate ,
bottomless purse ,
break ,
bulging purse ,
bundle ,
calculated risk ,
case history ,
casualness ,
chance ,
chronicle ,
chronicles ,
chronology ,
circumstances ,
confessions ,
constellation ,
cup ,
curriculum vitae ,
destination ,
destiny ,
destitute ,
diary ,
dies funestis ,
doom ,
easy circumstances ,
embarras de richesses ,
end ,
estate ,
expectations ,
experiences ,
fatality ,
fate ,
felicity ,
flier ,
flukiness ,
foredoom ,
fortuitousness ,
fortuity ,
fortunateness ,
fortuneless ,
fortunes ,
future ,
gamble ,
gold ,
good fortune ,
good luck ,
hagiography ,
hagiology ,
handsome fortune ,
hap ,
happenstance ,
happy chance ,
happy fortune ,
hazard ,
heedless hap ,
high income ,
high tax bracket ,
historiography ,
history ,
holdings ,
how they fall ,
ides of March ,
impecunious ,
impoverished ,
independence ,
indeterminacy ,
indeterminateness ,
indigent ,
inevitability ,
journal ,
karma ,
kismet ,
law of averages ,
legend ,
life ,
life and letters ,
life story ,
lot ,
luck ,
luckiness ,
lucre ,
luxuriousness ,
mammon ,
martyrology ,
material wealth ,
means ,
memoir ,
memoirs ,
memorabilia ,
memorial ,
memorials ,
mint ,
moira ,
money ,
money to burn ,
moneybags ,
necrology ,
needy ,
obituary ,
opportunity ,
opulence ,
opulency ,
packet ,
pelf ,
penurious ,
photobiography ,
pile ,
planets ,
play ,
plunge ,
portion ,
position ,
possessions ,
pot ,
poverty -
stricken ,
pretty penny ,
principle of indeterminacy ,
probability ,
problematicness ,
profile ,
property ,
prosperity ,
prosperousness ,
random sample ,
record ,
resources ,
resume ,
riches ,
richness ,
risk ,
roll ,
run of luck ,
serendipity ,
six -
figure income ,
smiles of fortune ,
speculation ,
stars ,
statistical probability ,
story ,
substance ,
the breaks ,
theory of history ,
theory of probability ,
tidy sum ,
treasure ,
uncertainty ,
uncertainty principle ,
unlucky day ,
unprosperous ,
upper bracket ,
venture ,
wad ,
wealth ,
wealthiness ,
weird ,
whatever comes ,
wheel of fortune ,
will of Heaven ,
worth
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