fortune

英 ['fɔːtʃuːn] 美 ['fɔːrtʃən]

• n. 命运；财产；运气

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C]机会,运气,转机

   chance, especially regarded as a power affecting people's lives; luck

2. [U]前途,命运

   person's destiny or future; fate

3. [C]大笔的钱,巨款

   large amount of money

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 命运
2. 财产，财富，家当，巨款，巨富
3. 运气，幸运，好运
4. 命运女神，司命运的女神
5. 女财主
6. 女继承人
7. 遭遇，祸福，景况
8. 私囊
9. 机会

v. 动词

1. <古>给予财富，给...大宗财富，为…提供大笔钱财
2. <古>偶然发生，碰巧，偶然偶见
3. 给...带来幸运，给…带来好运

英英释义

Noun:

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

   "bad luck caused his downfall"
   "we ran into each other by pure chance"
   

2. a large amount of wealth or prosperity

3. an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome;

   "it was my good luck to be there"
   "they say luck is a lady"
   "it was as if fortune guided his hand"
   

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

   "whatever my fortune may be"
   "deserved a better fate"
   "has a happy lot"
   "the luck of the Irish"
   "a victim of circumstances"
   "success that was her portion"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. Everyone is the architect of his own fortune.
   每个人都是自己命运的创造者。
2. An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune.
   不良的婚姻是恶运的来源。
3. He dreamed of making a fortune.
   他梦想发大财。
4. I rate his fortune at$10,000.
   我估计他有1万美元的财产。
5. 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。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. By a stroke of fortune, he won the competition.
   他靠运气在竞赛中获胜了。
2. The fortune of the young diplomat began to wane.
   这位年轻外交官开始倒运了。
3. He did not deserve such fortune.
   他不该这么运气。
4. What wonderful good fortune she was enjoying!
   她当时多么走运啊!
5. In the following years, his fortunes improved considerably.
   在后来的几年中,他的运气大为好转。
6. The party's fortunes were at their lowest level after the election defeat.
   该党在竞选失败后每况愈下。
7. He is ready to do anything on earth to better his fortunes.
   他准备竭尽全力来改善自己的境遇。
8. Though all his changing fortune, he never lost courage.
   尽管他命运多变,但他从未失去勇气。
9. I had my fortune told last week.
   上星期我请人算过命。
10. She said she would cast in her fortune with me.
    她表示情愿与我共命运。
11. Fortune smiled on us.
    命运之神向我们露出了笑脸。
12. Yet Fortune was bending over him just ready to let fall a burden of gold.
    然而命运女神此时就在他头上,随时准备赐予他大堆的金子。
13. They built their early fortunes on the sufferings of the Black people.
    他们早期积聚的财富是建筑在黑人的苦难之上的。
14. He dreamed of making a fortune.
    他梦想发财。
15. He has run through his whole fortune.
    他把全部家产挥霍一空。
16. I seem to have spent an absolute fortune on food this week!
    我本周吃饭好像就花了一大笔钱。
17. His father left him an immense fortune.
    他父亲给他遗留下了一笔巨大的财产。
18. She won a fortune in a lottery.
    她在抽奖中赢得了一大笔钱。
19. She had a little fortune in the bank with which to help her sister.
    她在银行里存了一点儿钱,可以用来资助她妹妹。
20. This story will make your fortune.
    这篇故事将使你发财。
21. Philip was known to be a young man without fortune.
    大家都知道菲利普是个穷小子。

经典引文

• When fortune changed..his real propensities began to show themselves.

  出自： Ld Macaulay

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• affect one's fortune 影响命运
• enjoy good fortune 交好运
• leave one's fortune with Heaven 听天由命
• share each other's fortune 同甘共苦
• try one's fortune 碰运气
• bring sb good fortune 给某人带来好运气
• build up the family fortune 发家致富
• come into a fortune 继承一笔财产
• go through one's fortune 耗尽财产
• have a fortune 有财产
• leave a fortune to sb 留给某人一笔遗产
• lose a fortune 失掉财产
• make a fortune 发财
• marry a fortune 同有钱的人结婚
• pile up a fortune 积聚财富
• seek one's fortune 寻出路
• spend fortune 花钱
• step into a fortune 继承一笔财产
• succeed to a fortune 继承一笔财产

形容词+～

• bad fortune 不幸的命运,厄运
• changing fortune 多变的命运
• good fortune 好运气
• ill fortune 厄运,不幸的命运
• political fortune 政治命运,官运
• ample fortune 大笔财产
• entire fortune 全部财产
• handsome fortune 大笔财产
• huge fortune 巨额财产
• large fortune 大笔财产
• vast fortune 巨额财产

介词+～

• by fortune 由于运气
• child of fortune 幸运儿

词语用法

1. make a fortune表示“发财”，make one's fortune表示“发达”，“成功”或“成家立业”；
2. 注意fortune的单复数形式，在tell fortunes中用复数，表示“算命”，而在tell (him) his fortune等表达中用单数，表示“请人给他算命”；
3. good fortune或单用fortune解释为“好运”时，fortune属抽象名词，前不可加a，也没有复数形式；
4. 表达方式have the good fortune后可加不定式。

   I had the good fortune to meet him there.
   我很幸运在那碰到他。

n. (名词)

1. fortune的基本意思是“机会,运气”,指对人生、国家或事业可能会造成向好的方面转变的机遇。fortune也可指一个人的未来,即“前途,命运”。fortune还可指“大笔的钱,巨款”。
2. Fortune可以表示“命运女神”。

词义辨析

n. (名词)

fortune, chance, luck

• 这三个词的共同意思是“运气”。其区别是：
• luck是口语用词,可指好的或坏的运气,没有修饰语时,多指好运,往往含有成功或愉快之义;chance侧重偶然的、无法推测的因素;fortune指决定或影响未来的机遇,常含有变幻无常和人力无法改变的意味。例如:
• We had the luck to get the best seats.我们真幸运,得到了最好的座位。
• Chance plays an important part in many card games.在许多纸牌游戏中运气起很大作用。
• What wonderful fortune she was enjoying!她多走运啊!

fortune, estate, property

• 这组词都有“财产”的意思。property指个人或团体合法获得的任何有价值的东西,也可指版权、专利权等无形的权益,有时也可指某物的效果; estate多指一大块私有土地及设置在这块土地上的房屋等物,有权遗传给后代子孙的地产,也可称为庄园或遗产; fortune指钱财,尤指大量的钱财。

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指最终的，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。

常见错误

n. (名词)

1. 他从政以前在煤铁业中发了大财。

   误 He did a fortune in the coal and iron business before he went into politics.

   正 He made a fortune in the coal and iron business before he went into politics.

   析 表示“发财”用make a fortune,其中动词不能用do。

2. 他在石油行业发了财。

   误 He made fortune in oil.

   正 He made a fortune in oil.

   析 fortune作“钱财”“财产”解时一般为可数名词,所以fortune前要加上不定冠词a。

词源解说

• ☆ 1300年左右进入英语，直接源自古法语的fortune；最初源自古典拉丁语的fortuna，意为机会，运气。

近反义词

【近义词】

• chance
• fate
• lot
• luck

【反义词】

• misfortune 不幸