Significado de luck en inglés

luck

/lʌk/ us

/lʌk/

the force that causes things, especially good things, to happen to you by chance and not as a result of your own efforts or abilities:

It was just luck that I asked for a job at the right time.

Then I met this gorgeous woman and I couldn't believe my luck.

She wears a charm that she thinks brings her good luck.

He seems to have had a lot of bad luck in his life.

So your interview's tomorrow? Good luck!

The best of luck in/with your exams!

success:

Have you had any luck with booking your flight?

He tried to get into teacher training college but with no luck.

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With a bit of luck, we should be back in time for dinner.
As she waited to go into the exam, he squeezed her hand and wished her good luck.
He hasn't been having much luck recently.
I'm sorry to hear that you failed your driving test. Better luck next time, eh!
Are the company's current difficulties a result of bad luck or bad judgment?

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Luck and lucky

We use the noun luck and the adjective lucky to talk about good things happening by chance, and not because of our own efforts: …

Expresiones

as luck would have it
bad/hard/tough luck!
be bad luck on someone
be down on your luck
be in/out of luck
be the luck of the draw
for (good) luck
for luck
more by luck than judgment
no such luck

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with any luck

your luck's in!

(Definición de luck del Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Ejemplos de luck

luck

Secondly, both internal and external causes can be stable over time (ability, task difficulty) or unstable (effort, luck).

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Insiders therefore reduce the luck factor and outsiders, as a consequence, get a fairer deal.

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They tend to attribute their successes more to luck and less to ability than men, and to be more influenceable.

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Of all those postulated astrochemical elements, only the first, helium, survived: a wonderful example of beginner's luck.

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Before they started, there was a stroke of luck.

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The war-damaged argued that the undamaged had only preserved their assets by luck, given the fortuitous distribution of wartime and post-war losses.

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Hurley shows only that some ways to specify or justify luck-egalitarianism are incorrect, not that luck-egalitarianism is incorrect.

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The significant difference between the algorithms occurs when one has mixed luck.

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We can not merely stipulate that there be no luck involved, because we all of us rely on luck to some extent.

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Finally, their level of agreement with the concept of health being a matter of luck was entered.

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Regarding court rulings, we assume that judges decide according to posterior beliefs concerning the likelihood of bad intentions or respectively bad luck.

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First, there is the familiar issue of causation luck.

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On the contrary, the factory often provided steady work, a stable wage and a world in which with a little luck one could ascend.

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They are also concerned with the fact that, irrespective of how others are doing, some people are needy through bad brute luck, full stop.

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He found that serious injury was rare following an incident as either intervention or luck tended to prevent significant harm in the majority of cases.

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bad luck

Regarding court rulings, we assume that judges decide according to posterior beliefs concerning the likelihood of bad intentions or respectively bad luck.

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better luck

You cannot win everything; we may have better luck next time.

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Ejemplo del archivo Hansard. Contiene información parlamentaria bajo la licencia Licencia de Parlamento Abierto v3.0

bit of luck

From a research analyst's perspective, it was a fantastic bit of luck.

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運氣, （尤指）機遇，機會, 成功…

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