| 单词 |
unfortunately |
| 释义 |
unˈfortunately, adv.
[f. unfortunate a.]
a. In an unfortunate manner; unhappily, unluckily.
1548Elyot, Infœliciter, vnhappily, vnfortunately. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 282 b, The death of kinge Fraunces chaunced unfortunately for studentes. 1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 536 Shee was..the vnfortunateliest married, and vnhappiest wife this Countrey had. 1651Hobbes Leviath. 390 Sidney Godolphin, who..was unfortunately slain in the..late Civill warre. 1700Dryden Sigism. & Guiscardo 630 She..Ev'n kept her Count'nance, when the Lid remov'd Disclosed the Heart, unfortunately lov'd. 1710Steele Tatler No. 204 ⁋4 We use Words of Respect sometimes very unfortunately. 1936R. Lehmann Weather in Streets i. ii. 36 Etty had not married—not even unfortunately.
b. In parenthetic or detached use.
1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 37 He might unfortunately have grown up to be a Pedant. 1779Mirror No. 10, Unfortunately for us, we found with our friend a number of his jovial companions. 1827Faraday Chem. Manip. xviii. 472 Unfortunately this evil increases with the heat. 1874J. Geikie Gt. Ice Age xiv. 183 These relics, unfortunately, have almost invariably been lost or mislaid. |
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