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fortunen. 1. chance,opportunity 机遇,机会。 △Mid.1.1.101:“My fortunes every way as fairly ranked / (If notwith vantage) as Demetrius’;”我的境遇在各方面(即使不能超过他)也都可以和狄米特律斯并驾齐驱。 △Shr.3.2.23:“Whatever fortune stays him from his word.”无论是什么缘故使他失约。 △Mer.1.1.43: “nor is my wholeestate / Upon the fortune of this present year.”我的全部财产也并不依靠今年这一年的盈亏。 △2H.IV.4.1.12:“whereupon / He is retired (= has retired),to ripehis growing fortunes,/To Scotland,”因此他已经退避到苏格兰去,等待时机成熟。 2. the good or ill that befalls man 遭遇,命运。 △As.2.7.199 (196):“The residue of your fortune,”你遭遇中的其他部分;你其他方面的遭遇。 3. good luck 好运。 △As.2.7.19: “Call me not fooltill heaven hath sent me fortune.”(an allusion to theold proverb,“Fortune favours fools.”) 在上天没有赐我好运之前,你别叫我傻子。(按:古谚有“命运厚爱愚人”之说,故云。) △Gent.5.2.49:“a peevish girl,/ That flies herfortune when it follows her.”一个不懂好歹的女孩子。富贵逼她而来,她偏弃之而逃。(又译:叫她享福,她偏不享。) △Tw.2.5. 153(137):“fortunes before you.”眼前的幸运。 4. good luck,happy success 好运,圆满成功。 △2H.IV.5.3.129 (126): “I would not take a knighthood for myfortune.”现在就是给我一个爵士封号,我都嫌低。 5. good luck,i.e.victory 幸运,(指)胜利。 △Lr.5.3.166 (165):“But what art thou /That hast this fortuneon me?” i.e. Who have the good luck to win the vic-tory over me. 不过你到底是什么人,这样幸运地打败了我? Phrases: at fortune: at random 随便地,任意地。 △Oth.3.3.263:“To prey at fortune.” i.e. to hunt at random; tomake her way in the world as best she may.任意去打食(又译:自己去觅野食)。 by fortune: by accident,by chance 偶然。 △Oth. 5.2.223 (225): “O thou dull Moor,that handkerchief thouspeak’st of / I found by fortune and did give my hus-band;”啊,你这愚蠢的摩尔人,你所说的那块手帕,原是我偶然拾到,把它给了我的丈夫。 fortune’s alms: fortune’s petty charities,small hand-out from fortune 命运的小施舍,命运的小救济。 △Lr. 1.1.280 (277): “who hath received you / At fortune’salms.”他肯接受你是靠着命运的慈悲。 △Oth.3.4.120(121): “And shut myself up in some other course / Tofortune’s alms.” 并且限制自己另找其他途径去乞求命运的施舍。fortune’s star: mark or effect of fortune’s influence,(A person’s fortune was supposed to be influenced bythe stars.) fate’s endowment 命运的标记,命运的赐与。 △Ham.1.4.32: “Being nature’s livery,or fortune’sstar,” i.e.due either to nature or accident. 这是天然的符号或者命运的标记。 in the fortune of: as for what has befallen 至于说到 …的遭遇。 △2H.IV.1.1.15:“And in the fortune of my lord yourson,/ Prince Harry slain outright,and both the Blunts /Killed by the hand of Douglas,”至于说到你的少爷的遭遇,哈利王子已经确实被杀,两位布仑特也被道格拉斯亲手杀死。
fortunevi. happen发生。 △Gent.5. 4. 169:“what hathfortuned.”所发生过的事情。 fortune[ˈfɔ:tʃən]n. 命运,运气,财富 (产) ◇ a child of fortune 幸运儿/ a gentleman of fortune 冒险家,海盗 by bad fortune 不幸,倒霉 make one’s fortune 发迹,发财 tell sb.’s fortune 算命 ‖ fortunate adj. 幸运的,走运的,侥幸的 fortunately adv. fortuneless adj. 不幸的 Fortunen. (cap.) goddess of fortune; fate,luck (大写)命运女神;命运,运气。 △Wiv.3.3.69 (64): “I see whatthou wert,if Fortune thy foe were not,Nature thyfriend.” i. e. I see what you would be (i.e. what a fig-ure you would cut),if Fortune,thy foe,had not madeyou a lowly citizen’s wife,as Nature,thy friend,havebeen bountiful in her gifts to you. 我看出你会成为怎样的一个人,因为你天生丽质,可惜命运偏偏与你作对,使你沦为平民之妻。(按:此句费解,但大意明显,即:惋惜福德太太貌美而命不好。) Fortune’s fickle wheel |