hard luck

英 [hɑːd lʌk]

美 [hɑːrd lʌk]

conv.  (表示同情)真不幸，真不走运
n.  (非自身过错造成的)坏运气，噩运; (自身过错造成的)不幸，不走运

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT （非自身造成的）坏运气，噩运
  If you say that someone had somehard luck, or that a situation washard luck onthem, you mean that something bad happened to them and you are implying that it was not their fault.
  1. We had a bit of hard luck this season...
     我们本季运气不太好。
  2. It was jolly hard luck on him, wasn't it?
     他可真倒霉，不是吗？
• N-UNCOUNT （自身造成的）不幸;不走运
  If someone says that a bad situation affecting you is just yourhard luck, they do not care about it or think you should be helped, often because they think it is your fault.
  1. The shop assistants didn't really want to discuss the matter, saying it was just my hard luck.
     店员根本不想谈论此事，说这完全是我运气太差。
• CONVENTION （表示同情）真不幸，真不走运
  You can say 'hard luck' to someone to show that you are sorry they have not got or done something that they had wanted to get or do.
  1. Hard luck, chaps, but don't despair too much.
     真不走运，伙计们，不过别太灰心。

双语例句

• Tempting as it is for us who were born earlier to shrug our shoulders and say hard luck to the 80s generation, we are not immune from their woes.
  尽管这很容易诱使我们这些较早出生的人耸耸肩，对80年代生人说运气不好，但我们不可能不受他们问题的影响。
• The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
  战胜倒霉的独一方式便是尽力农做。
• He decided not to comment beyond saying that it was jolly hard luck on me.
  除了说我运气太坏之外，他决定不再说什么。
• It's hard luck on those who were beaten in the first round of the competition.
  那些在第一轮比赛中就遭到失败的人真是倒霉。
• No, he just called in sick. It was very hard luck ( on you) to get ill on your holiday.
  没有，他打电话来请病假。（你）假期得病真倒霉。
• Rick told me it was hard luck he had aimed too high.
  里克告诉我他目标定的太高是件倒霉的事。
• They live to think of themselves as tough-minded business men, yet they are push-overs for any hard luck story.
  他们向来把自己想成硬心肠的商人，可是任何不幸的故事都会使他们受骗。
• That's figuring no hard luck on the trail, of course.
  当然这还不算上路上碰上什么倒霉事。
• Becky snatched at the book to close it, and had the hard luck to tear the pictured page half down the middle.
  贝基一把抓起书想把它合上，可是不幸拦腰把那张图撕了一半。
• Who can resist a kid with a hard luck story?
  谁能拒绝一个有着倒霉往事的小孩？