unchancy
/uhn-chan-see, -chahn-/US // ʌnˈtʃæn si, -ˈtʃɑn- //UK // (ʌnˈtʃɑːnsɪ) //
遗憾,不愉快,遗憾的是,不愉快的事
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
Chiefly Scot.
- : unlucky.
- : dangerous.
Examples
I pulled his head round away from the ghost, drew out a pistol, and watched the unchancy thing's movements.
Flight, instant and precipitate, was Darcy's one idea; flight forth from that unchancy car.
And it is precisely such unchancy happenings that make the scheme of things go wrong.
There was great glory and triumph in this; but why had his grace come at so unchancy a moment?
I would fain not run the risk, for folk say that he is an unchancy creature.
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