UNLUCKYvery bad luck, or something that happens to you as a result of bad luck 不幸,厄运;不幸事故,灾难
It seems the banks always profit from farmers’ misfortunes.
银行似乎总是从农民的不幸中获益。
have the misfortune to do/of doing something
The French soldiers had the misfortune to be caught in the crossfire.
法军不幸陷入了交叉火力网。
nCOLLOCATIONS
verbs
suffer misfortune
You are not the only person to have suffered misfortune in your life.
be dogged by misfortune (=have a lot of bad luck over a period of time)
The project seemed dogged by misfortune.
adjectives
a great misfortune
Everything they owned was lost in the fire, which was a great misfortune.
a terrible misfortune
At that time, being thin was considered a terrible misfortune for women.
phrases
have the misfortune to do something/of doing something
Last year, he had the misfortune to be involved in a car crash.
have ever had the misfortune to do/of doing (=used for emphasizing how bad something is)
He was the most arrogant man I'd ever had the misfortune of meeting.
Examples from the Corpus
misfortune• The casualties were far fewer, but the train did not suffer the extraordinarymisfortune of striking a bridge.• This at first seemed a great misfortune, for I knew a one-legged man could not do very well as a woodchopper.• Her misfortunesworsened this year, when her company eliminated her position and she lost her job.• Those for Diem were red, which signified good luck, and those for Bao Dai green, the color of misfortune.• These people are taking advantage of our misfortunes.• It was undertaken generally by people who had experienced personalmisfortune.• It was impossible not to feel sympathy for the family's misfortune.• Amelia had the misfortune to arrive during the darkestperiod in Atchison history.• If you do have the misfortune to have a burstpipe, the most important thing is not to panic.• So, too, do those people in towns who have the misfortune to live near the wrongwarehouse.• Timante examines the book which relates the misfortunes of his wife, whose whereabouts he did not know.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + MISFORTUNE | MISFORTUNE + VERB | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤great極大的不幸➤personal個人的不幸VERB + MISFORTUNE➤be dogged by, have, suffer厄運纏身;遭受不幸◇The expedition was dogged by misfortune.探險隊厄運連連。◇I had the misfortune to share a room with someone who snored loudly.真倒霉,我得和一個鼾聲如雷的人同居一室。MISFORTUNE + VERB➤befall sb, strike災難降臨到某人頭上;不幸襲來◇Misfortune struck before they had even left port.他們還沒離開港口,厄運就降臨了。PHRASES➤be sb's misfortune是某人的不幸◇He is the rudest man it has ever been my misfortune to meet.他是我不幸遇上的最粗魯的人。