fortuitous
英 [fɔːˈtjuːɪtəs]
美 [fɔːrˈtuːɪtəs]
adj. 偶然发生的; (尤指)巧合的
BNC.18692 / COCA.19324
牛津词典
adj.
- 偶然发生的；（尤指）巧合的
happening by chance, especially a lucky chance that brings a good result
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 偶然的;幸运的
You can describe something asfortuitousif it happens, by chance, to be very successful or pleasant.- Their success is the result of a fortuitous combination of circumstances.
他们的成功是各种环境因素偶然联系在一起的幸运产物。
- Their success is the result of a fortuitous combination of circumstances.
英英释义
adj
- occurring by happy chance
- profits were enhanced by a fortuitous drop in the cost of raw materials
- having no cause or apparent cause
- a causeless miracle
- fortuitous encounters--strange accidents of fortune
- we cannot regard artistic invention as...uncaused and unrelated to the times
双语例句
- The timing of her departure was entirely fortuitous.
她对离开时间的选择完全是偶然的。 - General hospitals have an important rescue mission when fortuitous mass casualties occur as a result of natural or man made disasters.
因自然灾害和人为因素所导致的突发性、群体性意外伤害时有发生，综合性医院负有重要的抢救使命。 - When I graduated from Harvard Business School, I chose a role that was at once marginal and extremely fortuitous.
当年，我从哈佛商学院毕业后，选择了一个边缘、但又非常幸运的角色。 - It is more likely to be a fortuitous discovery than the result of a concerted effort to find it.
发现它看来多半是出于偶然，而并非协同努力的结果。 - That's where it ends up anyway, and the cost is the same whether forced or fortuitous.
这就是它的最终结果，并且无论是强制的还是偶然的，成本都相同。 - If fortuitous causality in criminal law is not tenable, necessary causality in criminal law itself is an issue.
如果刑法偶然因果关系难以成立，则刑法必然因果关系本身也是有问题的。 - As a result of that fortuitous model-room experiment, I shifted my focus from memory to symbolic thinking.
就这样，我在模型屋计画邂逅的发现，让我改变了研究焦点，从记忆转向象徵思惟。 - The document had been commissioned 18 months earlier but the timing of its publication was fortuitous.
那份报告是在18个月之前委托撰写的，但发表的时机颇为幸运。 - It was quite fortuitous the way we met.
我们的相逢实属偶然。 - Such tragedy happens not only on nietzsche, so you cannot say it's just fortuitous.
而不只是尼采，所以不能说只是偶然的。