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fortuitousness

/fawr-too-i-tuhs, -tyoo-/US // fɔrˈtu ɪ təs, -ˈtyu- //UK // (fɔːˈtjuːɪtəs) //

偶然性,侥幸,侥幸心理,运气

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : happening or produced by chance; accidental: a fortuitous encounter.
    • : lucky; fortunate: a series of fortuitous events that advanced her career.

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Examples

  • That is just the first of several fortuitous twists of fate.

  • Over time, a sphere of rock formed around the fossil before eventually breaking open in a fortuitous way.

  • It was a far less fortuitous time to be an autistic person in the real world.

  • It was a fortuitous find, as most of the brewery’s archives had been destroyed in a series of fires.

  • It was a fortuitous time to have one, for the pressing question of the day regarding her race was how to deal with its continued subjugation, often enforced by lynching.

  • “It was a fortuitous discovery,” Bruenn told The Daily Beast last week.

  • But all kinds of fortuitous circumstances—important people “seeing that”—led him to getting cast in Inside Llewyn Davis.

  • All of which is why the juxtaposition of these two cases is fortuitous.

  • And 1968 was a fortuitous year to become European Champions: it was the year that defined an age.

  • What is useful in sport might be less fortuitous in other circumstances.

  • But the inordinate and fortuitous gains from land are really only one example from a general class.

  • In short, birth was fortuitous, a product of circumstance plus proximity, its get a biological accident.

  • Many finds have been simply fortuitous, but tombs have been the most valuable repositories.

  • This one has ended in a great good; really, it's the most fortuitous happening in my brief career as a minister of the Gospel.

  • No one supposes the agreement with the phenomena of light with the theory of undulations to be merely fortuitous.

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