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fortune BrE /ˈfɔːtʃuːn/
NAmE /ˈfɔːrtʃ-/► SEE ALLfortune smiles on sbmake a fortunea hostage to fortuneseek your fortunea small fortune
●fortune ˈsmiles on sba person is lucky and successful 某人走运；某人交好运◆At first, fortune smiled on him and the business was successful.
开始时，他运气不错，生意很兴隆。●make a ˈfortunemake a lot of money 发财；赚大钱◆He made a fortune buying and selling nineteenth-century paintings.
他靠买卖 19 世纪的画作赚了大钱。●a ˌhostage to ˈfortunean action which may cause you great trouble in the future 可能招惹大麻烦的行动；造成后患的事物◆Are you really sure you want to know who your real mother is? It may be taking a hostage to fortune, you know.你真的想要知道生母是谁吗？你要知道，这样可能会带来许多麻烦的。●seek your ˈfortune (literary) try to find a way to become rich, especially by going to another place 外出寻找致富之道；淘金；闯天下◆At the age of twenty, he decided to emigrate and seek his fortune in Canada.他二十岁时决定移民去加拿大寻找发财之道。▸ ˈfortune seeker noun ●a ˌsmall ˈfortune (informal) a lot of money 一大笔钱◆This house cost hardly anything when we bought it, but now it’s worth a small fortune.这房子我们当初买的时候没花什么钱，现在可是值不少钱。 |