misfortune是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 不幸, 灾祸，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was that of all emigrants driven by misfortune from their own country.
-- If Mulrady has fallen a victim to them, it is a misfortune that must not be repeated.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some great misfortune will befall you if you do.
-- I imagined what my feelings would be if I had to return to you and to confess that some misfortune had occurred through my disregard for your instructions.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If she accepted this money it was not to be considered as indem-nification for her misfortune as a young girl, which had not been in any degree her own fault, but merely as compensa-tion for her ruined life.
-- Every misfortune and mishap of the mother-country fills him with mirth, and even with ecstasy.
-- Oh, prince, great though this misfortune be to myself, I cannot help thinking of his morals!I have a great favour to ask of you, esteemed prince; I confess that it is the chief object of my visit.
-- He wrung his hands when the prince spoke to him, and said that 'such a misfortune at such a moment' was terrible.
-- Oh!what does grief matter what does misfortune matter, if one knows how to be happy?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Two of you,' she said, 'come with me that I may learn what it is that has befallen; I heard the voice of my husband's honoured mother; my own heart beats as though it would come into my mouth and my limbs refuse to car-ry me; some great misfortune for Priam's children must be at hand.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ' Midsummer Night's Dream he instant the shock of this sudden misfortune had Tabated, Duncan began to make his observations on the appearance and proceedings of their captors.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I beg you would not put it into Lizzy's head to be vexed by his ill-treatment, for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
-- 'Dear Sir, 'The disagreement subsisting between yourself and my late honoured father always gave me much uneasiness, and since I have had the misfortune to lose him, I have frequent-ly wished to heal the breach; but for some time I was kept back by my own doubts, fearing lest it might seem disre-spectful to his memory for me to be on good terms with anyone with whom it had always pleased him to be at vari-ance. 'There, Mrs.
-- 'Heaven forbid!THAT would be the greatest misfortune of all!To find a man agreeable whom on is determined to hate!Do not wish me such an evil.'
-- and yet you can treat the mention of his misfortune with contempt and ridicule.'
-- But the misfortune of speaking with bitter-ness is a most natural consequence of the prejudices I had been encouraging.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was my great misfortune that in all these adventures I did not ship myself as a sailor; when, though I might indeed have worked a little harder than ordinary, yet at the same time I should have learnt the duty and office of a fore-mast man, and in time might have qualified myself for a mate or lieutenant, if not for a master.
-- The first time I went out, I presently discovered that there were goats in the island, which was a great satisfaction to me; but then it was attended with this misfortune to me - viz.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It has been, and is, and probably will always be a heavy misfortune to me, that I have had no necessary business to engage me, no profession to give me employment, or afford me any thing like independence.
-- Why they WERE different, Robert exclaimed to her himself in the course of a quarter of an hour's conversation; for, talking of his brother, and lamenting the extreme GAUCHERIE which he really believed kept him from mixing in proper society, he candidly and generously attributed it much less to any natural deficiency, than to the misfortune of a private education; while he himself, though probably without any particular, any material superiority by nature, merely from the advantage of a public school, was as well fitted to mix in the world as any other man.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "She asks only in return," said Carrie, scarcely hearing the small, scheduled reply of her lover, and putting herself even more in harmony with the plaintive melody now issuing from the orchestra, "that when you look upon her your eyes shall speak devotion; that when you address her your voice shall be gentle, loving, and kind; that you shall not despise her because she cannot understand all at once your vigorous thoughts and ambitious designs; for, when misfortune and evil have defeated your greatest purposes, her love remains to console you.
-- Chapter XXII THE BLAZE OF THE TINDER--FLESH WARS WITH THE FLESH The misfortune of the Hurstwood household was due to the fact that jealousy, having been born of love, did not perish with it.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Misfortune has broken my once haughty spirit; I yield, I submit; 'tis my fate.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If only my misfortune might serve as a lesson to disobedient boys who refuse to study!Patience!Have patience!"
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