luck 1 S2 W3 / lʌk / 名词 [不可数名词]
1 success ( also good luck ) good things that happen to you by chance :
You’re not having much luck today, are you?
He’s had good luck with his roses this year.
It was an incredible piece of luck.
by luck
It was only by luck that they managed to avoid hitting the rocks near the shore.
2 bad luck the bad things that happen to someone by chance, not because of something they did :
I’ve had nothing but bad luck since I moved to this town.
3 chance when good or bad things happen to people by chance :
Roulette is a game of luck.
4 with (any) luck/with a bit of luck spoken if things happen in the way that you want 同义词 hopefully :
With a bit of luck, you might get a flight tomorrow.
5 wish somebody (the best of) luck to tell someone that you hope they will be successful in something they are going to do :
She wished me luck in the exam, then left.
6 good luck/best of luck spoken used to tell someone that you hope they will be successful in something they are going to do :
Good luck in this enormous project you are undertaking.
7 good luck to somebody spoken used to say that you do not mind what someone does because it does not affect you :
I say, good luck to him.
8 any luck?/no luck? spoken used to ask someone if they have succeeded in doing something :
‘Oh, there you are. Any luck?’ ‘No, I didn’t catch a single fish.’
9 be in luck to be able to do or get something, especially when you did not expect to :
You’re in luck – it’s stopped snowing.
10 be out of luck to be prevented from getting or doing something by bad luck :
The team were out of luck again at Scarborough on Saturday.
11 do something for luck to do something because you think it might bring you good luck :
She crossed her fingers for luck.
12 just my luck spoken used to say that you are not surprised something bad has happened to you, because you are usually unlucky :
I didn’t get to the phone in time. Just my luck!
13 no such luck spoken used to say you are disappointed because something good that you hoped would happen did not happen :
‘Have you Sunday off?’ ‘No such luck.’
14 better luck next time used to say that you hope someone will be more successful the next time they try to do something
15 as luck would have it used to say that something happened by chance :
As luck would have it, my best friend is the most wonderful cook in the world.
16 try/chance your luck to do something because you hope you will be successful, even though you know you may not be :
After the war my father went to Canada to try his luck at farming there.
17 be down on your luck to have no money because you have had a lot of bad luck over a long period of time :
When someone is down on their luck, friends are very difficult to find.
18 the luck of the draw the result of chance rather than something you can control
19 some people have all the luck spoken used to say that you wish you had what someone else has
20 bad/hard/tough luck especially spoken British English used to express sympathy when something unpleasant has happened to someone → tough luck at tough 1 ( 7 )
21 with/knowing sb’s luck spoken used to say that you expect something bad to happen to someone because bad things often do happen to them :
With my luck, I’d lose if I backed the only horse in a one horse race.
22 worse luck British English spoken unfortunately :
‘Would your boyfriend like a drink?’ ‘He’s not my boyfriend, worse luck!’
23 luck is on sb’s side if luck is on someone’s side, things go well for them :
Luck was on my side; all the traffic lights were green.
24 (one) for luck spoken used when you take, add, or do something for no particular reason, or in order to say that you hope good things happen
→ hard-luck story , → push your luck at push 1 ( 12 )
COLLOCATIONS
形容词
good luck These birds are said to bring good luck.
bad luck His bad luck continued.
sheer/pure luck (= chance, and not skill or effort ) She managed to catch hold of the rope by sheer luck.
dumb luck American English (= sheer good luck, not influenced by anything you did ) Sometimes I think my success was really just dumb luck.
beginner’s luck (= good luck that happens when you first try something ) He’d hit the center of the target. ‘Beginner’s luck, I guess,’ he said.
动词
have good/bad luck I’ve had a bit of bad luck.
have more/less luck I hope you have more luck in the next competition.
have no luck ( also not have much/any luck ) (= not be lucky or successful ) I’d been looking for a job for weeks, but had had no luck.
can’t believe your luck I couldn’t believe my luck as my number was called out!
have the (good/bad) luck to do something He had the good luck to meet a man who could help him.
sb’s luck holds (= they continue having good luck ) Our luck held, and the weather remained fine.
sb’s luck runs out (= they stop having good luck ) Finally my luck ran out and they caught me.
bring somebody (good/bad) luck He always carried the stone in his pocket; he reckoned it brought him luck.
短语
a piece/stroke of luck (= something good that happens by chance ) What a piece of luck that he arrived when he did!
a run of good/bad luck (= a series of good or bad things ) The team has had a run of bad luck lately, losing their last five games.
a matter of luck (= something that depends on chance ) Winning is a matter of luck.
an element of luck (= an amount of luck that is involved in something ) There is always an element of luck when hiring someone for a job.
THESAURUS
luck 名词 [不可数名词] when good or bad things happen to people by chance : The game involves an element of luck as well as skill.
chance 名词 [不可数名词] the way that some things happen without being planned or caused by people : I met her by chance on a plane to Tokyo. | Like all top athletes, he leaves nothing to chance , and trains harder than anybody.
fortune 名词 [不可数名词] luck and the effect it has on your life : I had the good fortune to work with some great people. | The tour was dogged by ill fortune (= it had a lot of bad luck ) from the start. | Fortune has shone on the team so far this season (= they have been lucky ) .
fate 名词 [不可数名词] a power that some people believe controls what happens to people and which cannot be changed or stopped : Fate dealt him a cruel blow with the death of his wife at the age of 32. | It must have been fate that brought them together, and fate that tore them apart. | We can’t just leave it to fate.
providence 名词 [不可数名词] a power which some people believe controls what happens in our lives and protects us : Do you believe in divine providence (= God’s power to make things happen ) ? | Her life was mapped out for her by providence.
fluke 名词 [可数名词，通常单数] informal something good that happens because of luck : Their second goal was a fluke. | They won by a fluke.