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单词 hapless
释义
hapless
adjective[before noun]
formal
uk
/ˈhæp.ləs/us
/ˈhæp.ləs/
unluckyand usuallyunhappy:
不幸运的；不愉快的
Manychildrenare haplessvictimsof thiswar.许多儿童是这场战争不幸的受害者。
Synonyms
poor
wretched
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
having bad things happen by chance
  • unluckyShe is one of the unluckiest people I've ever met.
  • unfortunateThe unfortunate souls who were lost during the voyage were commemorated once the ship reached port.
  • haplessHe's always been a hapless, helpless bumbler.
  • star-crossedBehold the tale of two star-crossed lovers, doomed to spend their lives apart.
  • lucklessThe luckless council member was caught in the middle of three major ethics investigations of her colleagues.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Good luck and bad luck
  • align
  • bad/hard/tough luck!idiom
  • be bad luck onsomeoneidiom
  • be down onyourluckidiom
  • be in/out of luckidiom
  • blessing
  • fortune smiles onsomeoneidiom
  • get the short end of the stickidiom
  • godsend
  • grace
  • haplessly
  • mercifully
  • mercy
  • miracle
  • misadventure
  • mischance
  • shame
  • streak
  • with any luckidiom
  • your luck's in!idiom
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Feeling sad and unhappy

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haplessly
(Definition ofhaplessfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

hapless| American Dictionary

hapless
adjective
us
/ˈhæp·ləs/
unlucky:
haplessvictimsof theearthquake
(Definition ofhaplessfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhapless

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Haplessborderliners were also caught up in the closure.
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Thus, thehaplesscrier, for one unlucky moment, became the incarnation of a detested policy and paid the price for decisions made by superiors.
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Up-country traders and porters were makers of their own destiny, and were nothaplesscasualties of change.
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Usually the ' boy ' would lie in wait, often in a tree, to capturehapless' smugglers ' for surrender to the soldiers or customs officials.
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The occasional clarity achieved by the artist was never achieved in concert by thehaplesssubjects of modern painting.
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This will no doubt sound like an astonishing claim to those acquainted with the passenger pigeon'shaplesshistory.
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Battlefields are dangerous places, for patients as well ashaplesscivilians in war.
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Yes, the doctor here is the stolid skipper while the layman is thehaplesslandlubber.
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At the same time, he is presented as a kind ofhaplessinnocent on the domestic front, duped occasionally by his servants and not adept at housekeeping.
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And he is happy to subscribe to a linear narrative of technological progress in which he positions thehaplessbrush, referring to it as 'not particularly advanced'.
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Thehaplesssinger chosen to solve the puzzle would initially try to sing the pitches given, but very soon would find that they are utterly wrong.
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Their effects are not limited to the individual user who brings things on himself, as anyhaplessvictim of a drunken driver can attest.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
How many of us have heardhaplesstales like this from our constituents, despite the existence of a timeshare directive?
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
But thehaplessreader finds it rather difficult to pick his way through the maze of directives.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
It is wholly unsatisfactory to have two directives addressing the same issue with different approaches and mechanisms and, for thehaplessfarming community, dual enforcement.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
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