adversity

adversity[əd'və:səti]

• n.
  • 厄运，不幸；逆境，悲惨的境遇；(尤指经济方面的)窘境
  • [复数]-ties 灾祸，灾难，苦难，祸患，不幸经历
• 短语:
  • Adversity makes a man wise, not rich. [谚语]逆境不使人富裕，可使人聪明。
  • Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
    • [谚语]难中不择友；同病相怜。
    • [1200～1250]

• Old North French
• necessary
• sessile
• put that in your pipe and smoke it
• resegmentation
• banana plugs
• quintupled
• synchronous switch
• sacroiliac
• expeditionary force
• Eton
• jitterbugger
• Old Smoky
• Pyrenean
• courlander
• hip flask
• P-A-C
• sigil
• lay sth waste
• NIA
• that you could cut with a knife
• invited paper
• laser threshold
• take heart
• stencilise
• wanninger
• aluminum conductor
• contraseasonal
• presidential
• alphonsuss
• undecillions
• land force
• look like oneself
• pentaerythritols
• saronging
• netwinged
• Walden's rule
• ellucidated
• in principles
• drift clay
• falsifiers
• passive corner reflector
• pyrophoric
• inexpensiveness
• oryxer
• dekametric
• suretyship
• traces
• regular fellow
• tracheid
• be wired for sth
• websters
• hang the landlady
• Salishes
• Rayleigh interferometer
• methods engineering
• interlockers
• Kick up the devil's delight
• Luddite
• service court
• high-mindedness
• letterheading
• VESA
• phragmoplasts
• try every means at one’s disposal
• zamarras
• toxoplasmin
• knockers
• overload relays
• jockeyed
• green labelling
• phasedown
• multicylinder
• acetate C-9
• air-breathe
• Tataric
• ddgs
• for all one’s pains
• revolving charge accounts
• ivory board
• ecdyses
• filmsetter
• ride high
• frost smoke
• aurally
• spitzer
• go down (from…)
• health code
• evangelically
• large evening
• royalism
• susannas
• sign stimulus
• patientness
• saver
• enchanted with
• detached core
• bladding
• twains
• leap out of one's skin