When the introductions are over, the bride tells Pinkerton that she comes from a once rich family that later met with ill-fortune, whereupon she was forced to earn a living as a geisha.

见面介绍已毕，新娘告诉平克顿她娘家原颇富有，后来遭到不幸变故，于是她被迫当艺妓为生。

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Eric listened patiently, making appropriate sounds and shakes of his head, but looking at me as though I were contaminated, the bearer into his office of a freshly mutated virus of ill-fortune.

埃里克很耐心地听着，他摇头晃脑，适时地做出些回应的声音，不过他看我的眼神怪怪的，就好像我是一个受到传染的病毒携带者，带着一种新近变异的厄运病毒踩进了他的办公室。

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Lucky people tend to see the positive side of their ill fortune.

幸运的人往往看到自己厄运的积极方面。

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But thanks to a sorry saga of his cabinet's incompetence, corruption and ill-fortune (see article) his poll ratings have been plumbing new depths for most of the year.

ECONOMIST: Japan

If Spurs' fans were dispirited by their team's continuing ill-fortune, it was not on show - and their vociferous support was almost rewarded after 22 minutes when Myhill turned Bale's long-range free-kick on to the bar.

BBC: Tottenham 0-1 Hull

IR You repeat the standard claim that Babbage's ill-fated attempt to build a computer cost a fortune and was eventually abandoned.

ECONOMIST: Letters