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 mishap ['mishæp]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 不幸之事, 灾祸, 恶运



    mishap
    [ noun ]
    1. an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate

    2. <noun.phenomenon>
      if I didn't have bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all
    3. an instance of misfortune

    4. <noun.event>


    Mishap \Mis*hap"\, v. i.
    To happen unluckily; -- used impersonally. [Obs.] ``If that
    me mishap.'' --Chaucer.


    Mishap \Mis*hap"\, n.
    Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance. --Chaucer.

    Secure from worldly chances and mishaps. --Shak.

    1. He said the wheel was one of four on the right main landing gear. The cause of the mishap is under investigation.
    2. In the meantime there was another mishap, a small power pulse on Aug. 7 which caused the reactor to be shut down on Aug. 9.
    3. Spokeswoman Nantana Neeyatan said the mishap occured as the Garuda Indonesia jet was trying to line up with the tube that allows passengers to walk from the plane to the terminal.
    4. From the start, federal investigators have focused on a possible error by Thomas Connor, who was operating track switches and signals from a nearby tower and should have switched the train onto a clear track before the mishap.
    5. The generators have been used without mishap on 23 space missions, many of them planetary probes, during the past few decades, said Willis Meeks, Ulysses project manager for NASA.
    6. The mishap occurred while Columbia was in a processing building being readied for a December flight.
    7. The cause of the mishap was being investigated.
    8. He said the reason for the mishap was unknown.
    9. Only minor injuries were reported in the mishap at Tampa International Airport.
    10. The company operates the Piper oil platform, where the explosion occurred, and owns a controlling stake in three of the six fields shut down by the mishap.
    11. Fortunately for traders, the mishap came on a day when no market-moving news was expected.
    12. CBS sources called the blackout a "mishap," asserting that Mr. Rather and his team were unaware that the network would go black when he left to telephone CBS officials.
    13. "Human error-pilot error is presumed to be the cause of this mishap," said the report released at a news conference.
    14. A difficult week passed without serious mishap. That should have been the end of it.
    15. The agency says any mishap leading to serious injury or significant damage is an accident.
    16. Exxon was blamed for the January spill and Eklof Marine Corp. of Staten Island, N.Y., took responsibility for Wednesday's mishap.
    17. A Soviet admiral Tuesday confirmed that a nuclear submarine suffered a mishap near Norway in December, but he denied reports that it leaked radiation.
    18. He had an unenviable task yesterday and accomplished it without obvious mishap.
    19. Cargo door failure is suspected to be the cause of that mishap.
    20. The waterway was temporarily closed after a barge loaded with heating oil exploded and caught fire earlier in the week, the third oil-related mishap in the area this year.
    21. One woman, Gordon said, was hurt in a mishap involving both the tree she was hiding in and the deer she shot.
    22. The three reactors at Savannah River, first brought into operation in 1954, have been closed down since August for safety and maintenance checks, and Herrington announced new operating procedures to reduce the danger of a mishap.
    23. Officials believe the engine will provide the best evidence on what caused the mishap.
    24. Boatwright was returning home after injuring her leg Monday in an escalator mishap.
    25. A source close to Walesa's office in Gdansk said he was told Walesa was injured in a traffic mishap Tuesday while driving his van loaded with lumber for cabin repairs.
    26. The trucker and a Shasta County sheriff's deputy were slightly injured in the tanker mishap, the Highway Patrol reported.
    27. A newspaper ran a story about the mishap, and the man who bought the haul appeared Sunday on Kessel's doorstep.
    28. In the event of a pipe break or other mishap that would keep water from circulating within the vessel, a separate emergency water supply, much colder than the original, would flood the container to cool off the nuclear fuel and prevent a meltdown.
    29. Ms. Holliday said that she did not raise the matter during jury selection because she believed the suit involved a manufacturing mishap, not product tampering.
    30. NASA named an accident investigation panel to study a launch-pad mishap Monday at Cape Canaveral, Fla., that resulted in the indefinite grounding of the space agency's Atlas-Centaur rocket.
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