fortune

单词音标

fortune音标[\'fɒ:tʃәn]

汉语翻译

n. 财富, 运气, 兴隆, 大量财产, 好运, 命运

【法】 命运, 财产, 大量财产

词型变化

动词过去式:fortuned过去分词:fortuned现在分词:fortuning第三人称单数:fortunes

词意辨析

destiny, fate, lot, doom, luck, fortune

这些名词均有“命运”或“运气”之意。

destiny: 普通用词，侧重预先注定的命运，对未来命运的美好憧憬。

fate: 较庄严用词，多指不幸的命运，暗示不可避免，令人畏惧和人的意志无法改变，宿命论色彩较浓。

lot: 多指偶然的运气或终身遭受的不幸命运。

doom: 指*终的，常常是灾难性或毁灭性的命运，隐含不可避免的意味。

luck: 普通日常用词，指好的或坏的运气，尤多指好运气，有时也指成功或愉快的结局。

fortune: 普通用词，指由机会或运气来决定的一种命运，如暗示一种比fate好的运气或一种愉快的未来。

英语解释

名词 fortune:

an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another

同义词：luck, chance, hazard

a large amount of wealth or prosperity

an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome

同义词：luck

your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)

同义词：destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion

例句

Everyone is the architect of his own fortune.

每个人都是自己命运的创造者。

He dreamed of making a fortune.

他梦想发大财。

These two brothers decided to go to America to try their fortunes.

这兄弟俩决定去美国碰碰运气。

详细解释

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n.（名词）

The chance happening of fortunate or adverse events; luck:

运气：好事或坏事的偶然发生；运气：

例句：

He decided to go home for the holidays, and his fortune turned for the worse.

他决定回家度假，没想到他的运气变坏了

fortunes The turns of luck in the course of one`s life.

fortunes 时运，命运：人一生中运气的转变

Success, especially when at least partially resulting from luck:

成功：成功，尤指运气在其中至少起部分作用的成功：

例句：

No matter what they tried, it ended in fortune.

无论他们是怎么做的，*后都成功了

A person`s condition or standing in life determined by material possessions or financial wealth:

财产：由财产或金钱而定的某人的身份或地位：

例句：

She pursued her fortune in another country.

她到他乡寻求她的财富

Extensive amounts of material possessions or money; wealth.

庞大的财产：大量财产、金钱或财宝；财富

A large sum of money:

大笔钱：

例句：

spent a fortune on the new car.

花一大笔钱买了这辆新车

Often Fortune A hypothetical, often personified force or power that favorably or unfavorably governs the events of one`s life:

常作 Fortune 命运之神：一假想的且通常拟人化的力量，或好或坏地决定人生中的事件：

例句：

We believe that Fortune is on our side.

我们相信命运之神是会眷顾我们的

Fate; destiny:

命运；宿命：

例句：

told my fortune with tarot cards.

用纸牌来算我的命运

A foretelling of one`s destiny.

算命：预测人的命运

v.（动词）

for.tuned,for.tun.ing,for.tunes

v.tr.（及物动词）

Archaic To endow with wealth.

【古语】 给…以大宗财产

Obsolete To ascribe or give good or bad fortune to.

【废语】 给…好运或坏运

v.intr.Archaic （不及物动词）【古语】

To occur by chance; happen.

偶然发生；碰巧

来源：

Middle English

中古英语

from Old French

源自 古法语

from Latin fortôna

源自 拉丁语 fortôna

from fors fort- [chance]

源自 fors fort- [机会]