Fortune

(noun.) a large amount of wealth or prosperity.

(noun.) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); 'whatever my fortune may be'; 'deserved a better fate'; 'has a happy lot'; 'the luck of the Irish'; 'a victim of circumstances'; 'success that was her portion'.

校对:朗达

• And the bulk of your fortune would be laid out in annuities on the authors or their heirs. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• I believe I could make an independent fortune in a few years if I devoted myself exclusively to portraits, so great is the desire for good portraits in the different country towns. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Oh, I am very glad that your father had the good fortune to obtain a weapon. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Superiority of birth supposes an ancient superiority of fortune in the family of the person who claims it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• A certain Jarndyce, in an evil hour, made a great fortune, and made a great will. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He was determined to make a fortune out of cotton-spinning, and he did, in spite of the loss of his patents, and the rivals who were always pursuing him. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• If I had any fortune of my own, I would willingly pay it to any one who could disprove what you have told me. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Her family--her beggarly family--turned their backs on her for marrying an honest man, who had made his own place and won his own fortune. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• What is the amount of his fortune? 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Sir,' explained that worthy woman, 'I trust it is my good fortune to produce a person you have much desired to find. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• By some happy fortune I was not seasick. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• His wife, his honour, his fortune, everything he loved best had fallen away from him. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The proportion of the expense of house-rent to the whole expense of living, is different in the different degrees of fortune. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Secondly, In a private copartnery, each partner is bound for the debts contracted by the company, to the whole extent of his fortune. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Our good fortune had been wonderful. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Economic history deals with the activities, the career, and fortunes of the common man as does no other branch of history. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• She does her best to destroy my fortunes and her own, and she won't reproach me! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Bale ties themselves have received great attention from inventors, and the most successful have won fortunes for their owners. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Look in the--what was its name when you told fortunes with your brother that I DON'T like? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• For some changes in the fortunes of my friends, I was prepared. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• It was the last asset in their fortunes, the nucleus around which their life was to be rebuilt. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• They studied the stars--to tell fortunes. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• People's lives and fortunes depend on them. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays, men have to work and women marry for money. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• His fortunes are more or less at stake in the issue of events. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• It is natural to her to be a lady; she has adapted herself to our new fortunes with wonderful ease. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Five hundred pounds would be a prodigious increase to their fortunes! 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• It is surprising how many large enterprises and fortunes depend upon some few simple trade secrets the knowledge of which has baffled competition and crushed all rivalry. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Yet she knew that he took a great interest in Lizzie and her fortunes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• So persons vainly reason when their minds are already made up and their fortunes irrevocably linked together. 柏拉图. 理想国.

校对:诺琳