| 词组 | fortuitously |
| 释义 | fortuitously The adverb fortuitously has been subject to the same strictures as fortuitous, but not as often, possibly because the adverb is a good deal less frequent than the adjective. It gets quite a bit of attention in Safire 1984. Safire in a newspaper column (22 Nov. 1981) found fault with a sentence in a Time article about airplanes that had been ordered by the Shah of Iran shortly before his fall. The offending sentence ended "... planes that fortuitously were never delivered." Safire interpreted the adverb to mean "fortunately" because it seemed obvious to him that it was fortunate that the Ayatollah didn't get his hands on the planes. The Time writer defended his choice of the word. He said he had picked it deliberately because the planes had been not delivered by happenstance, or, as he put it, "sheer dumb luck." We have here perhaps the first recorded dispute that can be ascribed to the failure of dictionaries to recognize the intermediate sense offortuitous (see fortuitous and its citations from James Thurber, Doris Lessing, and others for this sense). The Time use of the adverb falls midway between "by chance" and "luckily." The blending of the notions of chance and luck seems to be present in the following examples, too: • Here I do not wish to suggest that there was something so fortuitously creative about that afternoon as to lead us to discover right then, once and for all, what we wished the magazine to "be" —William Styron, This Quiet Dust and Other Writings, 1982 • The needs of the gross anatomy laboratory have been fortuitously met by the big refrigerators of the former dining hall —John Walsh, Science, 6 Oct. 1972 • We followed him out the door, into the elevator, and into a taxi that had fortuitously stopped in front of the hotel — New Yorker, 1 Dec. 1951 The other two meanings of fortuitous also exist in the adverb: • It's fashionable these days to shuck off whatever's happening out there in the American ghetto, the barrio or slum. As the not-so-subliminal message of these Reagan years suggests: "Who cares? Out of sight, out of mind." • Fortuitously, some smart people disagree —Neal R. Peirce, Boston Globe, 14 July 1986 • Fortuitously, wells drilled here have yielded carbon dioxide; so lucky farmers find cheaply at hand plenty of dry ice in which to pack their crops for shipment —National Geographic, June 1941 • ... reliance has to be placed on the memories of aging trade unionists and on their fortuitously preserved collections of papers —Times Literary Supp., 19 Feb. 1970 • An edition can be uniform with an impression only fortuitously when it is confined to a single impression —Fredson Bowers, Principles of Bibliographical Description, 1949 |
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