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 occurrence of such things is by no means fortuitous.
出现这种问题绝不是偶然的。 - 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。 - Please allow me to call you, because I browsed your web in fortuitous chance only. So, I don't know How to call you is properly.
请允许我这样称呼你们，因为我只是在一个偶然的机会看到了你们的网站，也不知道到底应当如何称呼你们！ - 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。 - The post-Soviet decline in oil production was reversed in time for the fortuitous upward spiral in world prices.
它逆转了后苏联时代石油产量的下滑之势，及时而幸运的赶上了全球油价的螺旋式上升。 - Happening by chance or accident; fortuitous.
或有的，偶然的，意外的。 - The timing of her departure was entirely fortuitous.
她对离开时间的选择完全是偶然的。 - 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。 - The extraordinarily convenient timing of the meeting is said to be fortuitous.
那个会议特别合适的时机选择据说是个偶然。 - An ability to identify a fortuitous opening is not something that can be easily taught within a prescribed structure.
发现偶然机遇的能力并不是在一个规定的框架下就能轻易教会的。