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：
-- 'That I cannot see the sunny side of the picture of life, like this artless but ardent enthusiast,' she added, laying her hand lightly, but affectionately, on the arm of her sister, 'is the penalty of experience, and, per-haps, the misfortune of my nature.
-- She was the daughter of a gentleman of those isles, by a lady whose misfortune it was, if you will,' said the old man, proudly, 'to be descended, remotely, from that unfortunate class who are so basely enslaved to administer to the wants of a luxurious people.
-- 'It will be your duty to see that none dare to approach the ladies with any rude intention, or to offer insult or taunt at the misfortune of their brave father.
-- The Hurons, who would have deemed such a misfortune the heaviest calamity that could befall them, fell back in a body, taking a position where they were out of earshot, though at the same time they could command a view of the entrance to the lodge.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a charming faculty, but one often abused by those who are conscious of its possession: for there is something ghoulish in the avidity with which they will pounce upon the misfortune of their friends so that they may exercise their dexterity.
-- But how strange it was that the creative instinct should seize upon this dull stockbroker, to his own ruin, perhaps, and to the misfortune of such as were dependent on him; and yet no stranger than the way in which the spirit of God has seized men, powerful and rich, pursuing them with stubborn vigilance till at last, conquered, they have abandoned the joy of the world and the love of women for the painful austerities of the cloister.
-- You're the most loathsome beast that it's ever been my misfortune to meet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A profligate, sir, who has forfeited every claim not only upon those who have the misfortune to be of his blood, but upon society which knows nothing of him but his misdeeds.
-- The gentleman who was against him had to speak first, and being in dreadfully good spirits (for he had, in the last trial, very nearly procured the acquittal of a young gentleman who had had the misfortune to murder his father) he spoke up, you may be sure; telling the jury that if they acquitted this prisoner they must expect to suffer no less pangs and agonies than he had told the other jury they would certainly undergo if they convicted that prisoner.
-- Thus, as Kit often said, his great misfortune turned out to be the source of all his subsequent prosperity.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She wished to revenge herself on her seducer, as well as the clerk, and all those that brought misfortune upon her.
-- "Is it good fortune or a great misfortune that has happened to me?"
-- "I have seen so much real misfortune to-day that----" "Sit down and tell us what you have seen."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I looked at his intelligent forehead, furrowed with premature wrinkles, produced probably by misfortune and sorrow.
-- What a misfortune that the secret of such an invention should die with its inventor!"
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I had the misfortune to scream in my sleep, owing to a frightful nightmare.
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