PHIL AND THE FORTUNE-TELLER. Do you wish to hear of the past or the future?" asked the fortune-teller. "Tell me something of the past," said Phil, with a view of testing the knowledge of the seeress. "You have left an uncongenial home to seek your fortune in New York. You left without regret, and those whom you have left behind do not miss you."
Phil started in amazement. This was certainly true. "Shall I find the fortune I seek?" asked our hero earnestly. "Yes, but not in the way you expect.英文原著 · 《The Errand Boy》
Buck up, man! We're on the threshold of fortune and we need all our wits about us."
"Of fortune - fortune!" Monty's head dropped upon his chest, his nostrils dilated, he seemed to fall into a state of stupor. Trent watched him half curiously, half contemptuously. "You're terribly keen on money-making for an old 'un," he remarked, after a somewhat lengthy pause. "What do you want to do with it?"
"To do with it!" The old man raised his head. "To do with it!" The gleam of reawakened desire lit up his face. He sat for a moment thinking. Then he laughed softly.英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
For are they not simultaneous, and do they not affect at the same time the same part, whether of the soul or the body?-which of them is affected cannot be supposed to be of any consequence: Is not this true? It is. You said also, that no man could have good and evil fortune at the same time? Yes, I did. But, you admitted that when in pain a man might also have pleasure? Clearly. Then pleasure is not the same as good fortune, or pain the same as evil fortune, and therefore the good is not the same as the pleasant? I wish I knew, Socrates, what your quibbling means.英文原著 · 《Gorgias》
Women of her airy temper, as they seldom think before they act, so they rarely give us any light to guess at what they mean. But you have little reason to believe that a woman of this age, who has had an indifference for you in your prosperity, will fall in love with your ill-fortune; besides, Angelica has a great fortune of her own; and great fortunes either expect another great fortune, or a fool.英文原著 · 《Love for Love》
I saw that day how hard it was to be a soldier's wife." La Corne's shaggy eyelash twinkled with moisture. "But it was the fortune of war!--the fortune of war, and a cruel fortune it is at the best!"英文原著 · 《The Golden Dog》
"But 'tis marriage he is so mum about, bless ye!" said Sir Jeoffry. "And that is not a thing to be hid long. He is to be shortly married, they say. My lady, his mother, has found him a great fortune in a new beauty but just come to town. She hath great estates in the West Indies, as well as a fine fortune in England-- and all the world is besieging her; but Jack hath come and bowed sighing before her, and writ some verses, and borne her off from them all."英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
I handled it when I lost my fortune, and I handled it when I lost my fortune.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
We'll cost your client a fortune keeping his money out of play for half a year, maybe his whole fortune.美剧 · 《Billions》
Really, Mama. You know as well as I do that Cora's fortune is not Cora's fortune any more!美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
You want to spend a fortune buying a home so that you can spend another fortune remodeling it?美剧 · 《Suits》