unfortunate
英 [ʌn'fɔːtʃ(ə)nət]
美 [ʌn'fɔrtʃənət]
英語の語源
- unfortunate (adj.)
- mid-15c., "unlucky," from un- (1) "not" + fortunate (adj.). Infortunate in same sense is from late 14c. (along with a verb infortune "to render unhappy"). In late 18c.-early 19c., unfortunate woman was a polite way to say "prostitute." The noun meaning "one who is not fortunate" is recorded from 1630s.
例文
- 1. Through some unfortunate accident，the information reached me a day late.
- 不幸なアクシデントが発生したため、私がメッセージを知った時は1日遅れていました。
- 2.Every year we have charity days to raise money for unfortunate people.
- 毎年、貧しい人々を助けるための慈善の日があります。
- 3.It really is desperately unfortunate that this should have happened just now.
- さっきこんなことがあったなんて、あまりにも場違いだった。
- 4.Some unfortunate person passing below could all too easily be seriously injured.
- 下を通る運の悪い卵は重傷を負いやすい。
- 5.By an unfortunate oversight，full instructions do not come with the product.
- 不幸なミスのため、製品に完全な説明を添付できませんでした。
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