infelicity

1 Taddeo’s use of the close third person camouflages the source of these infelicities even as she seeks to expose the source of the women’s problems.

2 And it is trying to alleviate the side-effects and infelicities of its easing policies, so that it can sustain them for as long as necessary.

3 In those first weeks, Bolles’s topic varied each day, depending on factors as unpredictable as the Seattle weather or what particular infelicities of technique he had noticed in the previous practice.

4 This memoir has its sentimentalities and infelicities and narrative eddies, but few that distract you from its flowing course.

5 This led both to some pretty fascinating dinner party conversations and more than a few party mishaps and infelicities.

6 Everything about me is out of proportion — including my peanut-sized head — so I face the choice of billowing, dowdy garments or tighter clothes that sometimes cruelly expose my physical infelicities.

7 A judgmental infelicity plagued past generations.

这种不恰当的看法曾困扰了几代人.

8 To be fair, any story set in an industry other than filmmaking is bound to incur infelicities when being handled by people who think filmmaking is the noblest cause.

9 And she can be funny, too, as when she documents the stylistic infelicities — the relentless use of “truly,” “thee,” “thou” — of “For Whom the Bell Tolls.”

10 For a more complete and very funny deconstruction of its infelicity, read Jonathan Last’s riff in The Bulwark.

11 The reproof in their eyes, and the camaraderie implicit in their silence, provide moral and sentimental satisfactions that outweigh the infelicities of plot.

12 My wife proofread the whole book, double-checking facts and references, and I went through it as well to correct grammatical errors, and stylistic inconsistencies or infelicities.

13 The novel’s narrator Laszlo Ratesic, is a member of the state’s Speculative Service, the law-enforcement body charged with ferreting out lies and liars and with sorting “accidental infelicities” from “purposeful misrepresentations.”

14 The microphones tend to magnify any ensemble infelicities, and the sound is often strident.

15 To praise the perfection of “Secret Sunshine” would be to risk misrepresenting its main virtue, which is its attention to minor infelicities and inconveniences as well as to unspeakable crimes and intolerable heartaches.

16 He recalled their struggles, their ambitions, their infrequent victories, their frequent defeats, their occasional rise into social eminence, and the domestic infelicities that poisoned their success.

17 The characters, with their insistence on self-determination, feel too modern, and there are a few infelicities, like the idea that “The Communist Manifesto,” first translated into English toward the end of 1850, would circulate onboard.

18 And I doubt they spent any time correcting whatever infelicities of my pen they found among my scribbled pages.

19 And these are not isolated instances: similar infelicities occur on every page.

20 There is so much infelicity in the world.

人世间有很多不幸的事。

1 不恰当

off-key unfortunate inappropriate unworthy ill ill-fitting ill-suited impertinent unsatisfying unfitting uncomely infelicitous unbefitting unapt

2 不吉利

ill-boding sinister unlucky ominous inauspicious baleful infelicitous inauspiciously

3 不适当的行为

impertinence immodesty

4 不幸

bad poor tough evil rough sticky unfortunate unhappy miserable unsuccessful disastrous unlucky wretched fateful hapless ill-fated accursed untoward calamitous inauspicious luckless ill-starred jinxed infelicitous ill-omened unblest unblessed fortuneless badly-off funest wanchancy unfortunately sadly tragically miserably unhappily unluckily calamitously adverseness ill-being cross trouble blow reverse knock disaster tragedy sorrow misery bale fatality misfortune unhappiness ill jinx misadventure mischance in an evil hour in an ill hour by misadventure by mischance hard cheese hard lines but too only too hard luck buffet casualty woe adversity calamity sufferance off serious dirty adverse sinister need distress mishap a crook in lot as ill luck would have it abject forlorn worse luck evil-starred woeful distressful accurst mishanter wanion accident teen rubber grief affliction deuce fardel sordor bise infelicific unsonsy donsie wayward direful fatally tsoris down shame discomfort dole schemozzle hex one in the eye

5 不快乐

grim unblessed

6 不吉

ill-boding cross sinister ominous unfavourable portentous infelicitous withershins badness malignance unlucky obscene sullen ill-omened funest gravity

7 不快

bind umbrage

8 不适当

bad unfortunate inappropriate inadequate improper undue unlucky ineligible unsuitable unfit indecent misplaced unbecoming inopportune unsuited ill-suited impertinent ill-considered off-key unfitting inapt uncomely inapposite infelicitous unapt unmeet incompetence inadequacy impropriety impertinence unsuitability inaptitude uncalled for malapropos wrong incorrect insufficient bum ill inept wry untoward unseemly inapplicable unfitted unpregnant amiss inexpedience inequality insufficiency indisposition

9 不当

wrong inappropriate naughty unwarranted out-of-the-way unwarrantable