Adversity

(noun.) a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event; 'a period marked by adversities'.

(noun.) a state of misfortune or affliction; 'debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity'; 'a life of hardship'.

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• Better die at once--better plunge a poinard in her bosom, still untouched by drear adversity, and then again sheathe it in my own! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The appetite for admiration and small capacity for self-controul which I inherited from my father, nursed by adversity, made me daring and reckless. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Prosperity is denominated ascent, and adversity descent. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• It came to Clennam in his adversity, strongly and tenderly. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Our world to-day seems to be emerging with fluctuations from a prolonged phase of adversity and extreme conditions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Adversity might set against him her most sullen front: he was the man to beat her down with smiles. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• But if you have friends in adversity, stand by them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Adversity gave me and my mother one passing scowl and brush, but we defied her, or rather laughed at her, and she went by. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Sharers of Wilfred's dangers and adversity, they remained, as they had a right to expect, the partakers of his more prosperous career. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• But Caroline Beaufort possessed a mind of an uncommon mould; and her courage rose to support her in her adversity. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• It was plain to those who looked upon the mother's altered face, that death must soon close the scene of her adversity and trial. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• It comes with sickness, it comes with sorrow, it comes with the loss of the dearly loved, it is one of the most frequent uses of adversity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

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