hard-luck story

hard-luck story

美 　英

• n.（为博得他人同情或帮助而诉说的）不幸的遭遇
• 网络为博同情而说的不幸经历

英汉解释

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.

他们向来把自己想成硬心肠的商人，可是任何不幸的故事都会使他们受骗。

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

那个艰苦的吉祥故事会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.

接着她开始讲述她的一段倒霉的经历，住院费、拖欠的房租，还有寄放在乡下的婴儿。