unfortunateadj.
英 ʌn'fɔːtʃ(ə)nət | 美 ʌn'fɔrtʃənət
中文adj. 不幸的；令人遗憾的；不成功的
词根词源
unfortunate (adj.)mid-15c., "unlucky," from un- (1) "not" + fortunate (adj.). Infortunate in same sense is from late 14c. (along with a verb infortune "to render unhappy"). In late 18c.-early 19c., unfortunate woman was a polite way to say "prostitute." The noun meaning "one who is not fortunate" is recorded from 1630s.
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