unpropitious

[美國]/ʌnprə'pɪʃəs/
[英國]/ˌʌnprəˈpɪʃəs/
詞頻: 非常高

中文釋義

adj. 不吉利的,惡運的

例句

Thirteen is an unpropitious number.

13是個不吉利的數字。

arrived at an unpropitious moment.

在一個不利的時刻到達

原聲例句

Passepartout was enraged beyond expression by the unpropitious weather.

至於路路通,我們可以想象,在這場惱人的暴風雨中,他那種無法抑止的憤怒會達到什麼程度。

來源: Around the World in Eighty Days

At this unpropitious moment her name was called.

就在這不合時宜的時刻,她的名字被叫了出來。

來源: Anne of Green Gables (Original Version)

But, when all is said, it remained an unpropitious meeting.

但是,歸根結底,這仍然是一次不吉利的會議。

來源: Brideshead Revisited

Wilson was concerned with the rituals and beauty of ordinary black Americans as they They forged a culture in unpropitious circumstances.

威爾遜關注普通美國黑人的儀式和美麗,因爲他們在不利的環境中打造了一種文化。

來源: The Economist Culture

The sea was not very unpropitious, the wind seemed stationary in the north–east, the sails were hoisted, and the Henrietta ploughed across the waves like a real trans–Atlantic steamer.

海上風浪不大,一直是颳着西南風,亨利埃塔號張起羣帆,有了前後檣兩張大帆推動,它走得簡直跟一艘橫渡大西洋的客船一模一樣。

來源: Around the World in Eighty Days

The result of that unpropitious interview was that Eustacia, instead of passing the afternoon with her grandfather, hastily returned home to Clym, where she arrived three hours earlier than she had been expected.

這令人糟心的談話,使遊苔莎下午沒有跟她外公待在一起,而是匆匆回家去見克林,比預期提早了三個小時。

來源: Returning Home

When first I knew him, Ryecroft had reached his fortieth year; for twenty years he had lived by the pen. He was a struggling man, beset by poverty and other circumstances very unpropitious to mental work.

當我第一次認識他時,萊克羅夫特已經四十歲了。二十年來,他一直靠筆爲生。他是一個掙扎的人,被貧困和其他非常不利於腦力勞動的環境所困擾。

來源: Essays on the Four Seasons

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