1·Jean was extremely superstitious and believed the colour green brought bad luck.
琼极端迷信,认为绿色会带来厄运。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·People believe that the tea leaves picked on the day of Guyu can make eyes clear and drive away bad luck.
人们相信在谷雨那天采摘的茶叶可以明目,驱走厄运。
3·And most appallingly, no, catastrophically, tragic of all, was the life of Keats, a man pursued by bad luck from the start.
而其中最可怕的,不,是最悲惨的,是济慈的人生,这是一个从生之初就被厄运一路追随的人。
4·Call it poetic justice, or just sheer bad luck, either way Hobson approached the experience like a scientist and decided to document it, just as he had with the cats, but this time from the inside.
把这当成理想的惩罚也好,当成纯粹的厄运也行,豪布森教授开始以科学家的态度研究并记录这段经历。 ——就像对待他的猫一样,不同的是这次从内部研究。
5·Keats's origins counted as his first stroke of bad luck.
济慈的出身可以算是他的厄运的头一次打击。