1.注定要倒霉（或失败）的；时运不济的not lucky and likely to bring unhappiness or to end in failure
an ill-starred marriage注定要失败的婚姻
But during their ill-starred government of 2005-07, the atmosphere was more reminiscent of Robespierre than Benjamin Franklin.
2005到2007年间，政府表现不佳，政治氛围让人想起罗伯斯庇尔而不是富兰克林。
The prospect of further upsets to the ill-starred attempt to rewrite the way the EU operates has European leaders panicking or despairing.
进一步扭转试图改变欧盟运行方式这一行动的前景，已经使欧洲各国领导感到惊慌和绝望了。
Diminished as it has been by ill-starred foreign adventures and economic weakness, the US remains the indispensable power.
尽管因对外干涉屡遭挫折而实力受损而且经济低迷，美国仍是一个不可或缺的强者。
The resulting glut of liquidity and financial firms' thirst for yield led eventually to the ill-starred boom in American subprime mortgages.
结果，超大量的流动性及金融公司渴求回报事实上造成了美国次级房贷市场繁荣的假象。
A: That's right. But all those things, for some reason, have been ill-starred, haven't gone anywhere.
答：不错，但因为某种原因，所有那些事情都运气不佳，没有成效。
So this is the first and last letter we are writing to you from "new Europe" , to use Donald Rumsfeld's ill- starred phrase.
所以这恐怕是第一封也是最后一封从那个不幸的拉斯菲尔德所谓的“新欧洲”寄给您的信了。
After an ill-starred open letter critical of the Obama administration last year, they take care not to complain publicly.
即去年不幸地公开了一封对奥巴马政府的批评信之后，他们开始注意不在公开场合抱怨。
I am a son's' that you of wife, this is you are ill-starred'.
我是你的妻子，这是你的儿子‘多灾多难’。
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