A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune .--Lewis Wallace

最幸运的时刻最考验人。--华莱士

属类：习语名句-名人名言-人生篇

1:Four years later Mr Butterfield tried to create another online game, called Glitch. It flopped as well.2:But Mr Butterfield and his team developed an internal messaging system to collaborate on it, which became the basis for Slack.[...]113:In Silicon Valley, such a change in strategy is called a “pivot”; anywhere else it is called good fortune .4:Today Slack is one of the fastest-rising startups around, with $540m in funding and a valuation of around $3.8 billion.5:“I guess the lesson should be, pursue your dream and hope it fails, so you can do something else,” says Cal Henderson, Slack's chief technology officer.

1:四年后，巴特菲尔德试图创办另一款名为Glitch的网络游戏，同样以失败告终。2:但巴特菲尔德和他的团队在创业过程中开发了一个内部通讯系统用于协作，奠定了Slack的基础。[...]113:在硅谷，这种战略上的转变被称为“转型”，要是放在其他任何地方都会被称为运气。4:今天，Slack已成为上升最快的创业公司之一，融资5.4亿美元，估值约为38亿美元。5:“我想这给我们的经验是，追逐梦想，希望梦想失败，这样你就可以做点儿别的了。”Slack的首席技术官卡尔·亨德森（Cal Henderson）说道。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-Slack一代 职场通讯工具如何取代其他沟通形式(上)

1:The pandemic will have many losers, but it already has one clear winner: big tech.2:The large digital platforms, including Alphabet and Facebook, will come out of the crisis even stronger.[...]113:They should use this good fortune to reset their sometimes testy relations with their users.4:Otherwise big government, the other beneficiary of the covid calamity, is likely to do it for them.

1:这场流行病将导致许多输家，但已经有了一个明显的赢家：大型科技公司。2:包括Alphabet和Facebook在内的大型数字平台在渡过危机后将更加强大。[...]113:他们应该充分发挥这种上升运势来重新调整与用户之间有时会出现的紧张关系。4:否则，“大政府”——冠状病毒灾难的另一个受益者——可能会代他们做这件事。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-技术行业在危机中的机会(1)

1:The song begins in typical power-ballad fashion, with plaintive piano chords and rumbling strings.[...]112:Soon, though, the lyrics go awry. The lead singer reflects on his good fortune —a successful career on television, a passionate marriage, a “thousand- dollar haircut”—but laments that he is tormented day and night by a single question.3:Such soft-rock numbers usually dwell on a former lover or missed opportunity; what preoccupies this man is a prehistoric monument in south-west England.4:“What’s the deal with Stonehenge?”he cries, his white shirt billowing in the wind.5:Is it “a giant granite birthday cake, or a prison far too easy to escape”?

1:这首歌以典型的强力情歌风格开场，搭配哀怨的钢琴和弦和隆隆的弦乐。[...]112:不过，很快歌词就出了岔子。这位主唱回顾着自己的好运——成功的电视事业，激情的婚姻，“千元理发”——但他却感叹自己日日夜夜被一个问题折磨着。3:这样的慢摇滚通常都是关于前任或者是错过的机会；而这个人关注的是英格兰西南部的一座史前纪念碑。4:“巨石阵是怎么回事？”他哭着，白衬衫在风中翻滚。5:是“一个巨大的花岗岩生日蛋糕吗，还是一个极易越狱的监狱”？

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-家庭娱乐专栏--笑料百出(1)

The first is simply the character's name: Scrooge. Ebenezer Scrooge is mean. He is unwilling to share his money and good fortune . He hates people. And he hates Christmas.

第一个词语就是这个主角的名字，斯克鲁奇。艾柏纳泽·斯克鲁奇很吝啬。他不愿意分享他的钱财和好运。他讨厌人们，也讨厌圣诞节。

属类：学习英语-Words And Their Stories 词汇掌故-词汇掌故：圣诞节和吝啬鬼

To count your blessing is to be grateful for all your good fortune in life. But sometimes we use it as a warning to people who may forget to be thankful.

数数自己的幸福就是感谢生活中的所有好运。但是有时候我们用这句话来提醒那些忘记感恩的人们。

属类：学习英语-Words And Their Stories 词汇掌故-词汇掌故：关于bless的一些用法

Mr Obama's good fortune is that it is not only progressives who find the deal unpalatable. Conservatives hate it too.

奥巴马的幸运之处在于，不仅激进分子觉得此议案不合胃口，保守派也对此恨之入骨。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

Whatever our motivations, each of us responds to the roles life offers us, seizing good fortune , we hope, whenever it presents itself.

不论我们的动力是什么，我们每个人都对生活赋予我们的角色做出回应。我们也希望，当好运来临的时候，可以抓住它。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

Success and good fortune have increased your self-image, and business and money matters should be going well.

成就与好运会助您提升自我形象，事业有成，财运亨通。

属类：英汉句库-blog.hjenglish.com-

But instead of seeking to pass on their good fortune , the European Union's citizens have shown a marked disinclination to have children.

但欧盟（EU）公民不是想把自己的好运传下去，而是表现得非常不想要孩子。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-