unfortunate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 不幸的； 可取的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You see, my dear fellow, tomorrow, very early in the morning, I must be off to town about this unfortunate business(my uncle, you know!).
-- He would walk down the rows of the unfortunate prisoners, stop before each individual and ask after his needs he never sermonized them; he spoke kindly to them he gave them money; he brought them all sorts of necessaries for the jour-ney, and gave them devotional books, choosing those who could read, under the firm conviction that they would read to those who could not, as they went along.
-- As a rule, she vented her wrath on her unfortunate companion, be it who it might.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bright flashes and the quick reports of a dozen- rifles, from the opposite banks of the stream, followed this incautious exposure of his person, and left the unfortunate singing master senseless on that rock where he had been so long slumbering.
-- Come, then, with Alice, into this cavern, where you, at least, will be safe from the mur- derous rifles of our enemies, and where you may bestow a care suited to your gentle natures on our unfortunate com- rade.'
-- She was the daughter of a gentleman of those isles, by a lady whose misfortune it was, if you will,' said the old man, proudly, 'to be descended, remotely, from that unfortunate class who are so basely enslaved to administer to the wants of a luxurious people.
-- But could I find a man among them who would dare to reflect on my child, he should feel the weight of a father's anger!Ha!Major Heyward, you are yourself born at the south, where these unfortunate beings are considered of a race inferior to your own.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Many dismal tales were told about funeral trains, and mourning cries and wailings heard and seen about the great tree where the unfortunate Major Andre was taken, and which stood in the neighborhood.
-- It was at this identical spot that the unfortunate Andre was captured, and under the covert of those chestnuts and vines were the sturdy yeomen concealed who surprised him.
-- In one part of the road leading to the church was found the saddle trampled in the dirt; the tracks of horses' hoofs deeply dented in the road, and evidently at furious speed, were traced to the bridge, beyond which, on the bank of a broad part o脜聯 the brook, where the water ran deep and black, was found the hat of the unfortunate Ichabod, and close beside it a shattered pumpkin.
-- The schoolhouse being de-serted soon fell to decay, and was reported to be haunted by the ghost of the unfortunate pedagogue and the plough-boy, loitering homeward of a still summer evening, has often fancied his voice at a distance, chanting a melancholy psalm tune among the tranquil solitudes of Sleepy Hollow.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it is unfortunate that I can give no description of the arduous steps by which he reached such mastery over his art as he ever acquired; for if I could show him undaunted by failure, by an unceasing effort of courage holding despair at bay, doggedly persistent in the face of self-doubt, which is the artist's bitterest enemy, I might excite some sympathy for a personality which, I am all too conscious, must appear singularly devoid of charm.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Frightful indeed was the situation of these unfortunate men.
-- This same morning, the 26th of March, at daybreak, Neb had set out on the shore in a northerly direction, and he had returned to the spot where the sea, no doubt, had closed over the unfortunate Harding.
-- But was the engineer living, or had Neb only sent for his companions that they might render the last duties to the corpse of the unfortunate Harding?
-- They, no doubt, would wish to see the unfortunate man again.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The unfortunate Kit looked at his young mistress harder and harder, and with eyes growing wider and wider, but was perfectly motionless and silent.
-- The unfortunate creature dropped upon his fore-legs directly, wagged his tail, and looked imploringly at his master.
-- 'Yes, I think it seems full three years, Quilp,' was the unfortunate reply.
-- 'That,' said Mrs Jarley in her exhibition tone, as Nell touched a figure at the beginning of the platform, 'is an unfortunate Maid of Honour in the Time of Queen Elizabeth, who died from pricking her finger in consequence of working upon a Sunday.
-- 'In the name of all that's calculated to drive one crazy, man,' said the unfortunate single gentleman, 'have you not, for some reason of your own, taken upon yourself my errand?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he described Maslova's unfortunate life, telling how she had been drawn into a life of vice by a man who went unpunished, while she was left to bear the whole burden of her fall, he attempted to become eloquent, but his excursion into the domain of psychology failed, so that everybody felt awkward.
-- As to the statement of the defense that Maslova was drawn into a vicious life by an imaginary (he pronounced the word imaginary with particular virulence) man, he could say that all facts rather pointed to her being the seducer of many victims who were unfortunate enough to fall into her hands.
-- All these unfortunate prisoners are his children.
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