hard-luck story

hard-luck story

美 　英

• n.（為博得他人同情或幫助而訴說的）不幸的遭遇
• 網絡為博同情而說的不幸經歷

英漢解釋

na.	1. a description of bad things that have happened to you that you tell someone in order to make them feel sorry for you

例句

They live to think of themselves as tough-minded business men, yet they are push-overs for any hard luck story.

他們向來把自己想成硬心腸的商人，可是任何不幸的故事都會使他們受騙。

That hard-luck story will receive short shrift on Merseyside.

那個艱苦的吉祥故事會收到默西塞德郡的冷遇。

And then she commences a hard luck story, about the hospital and the back rent and the baby in the country.

接著她開始講述她的一段倒霉的經歷，住院費、拖欠的房租，還有寄放在鄉下的嬰兒。