mindmap root((幸运)) lucky stresses the agency of chance in bringing out a favorable result: the ~ day I met my future wife. fortunate suggests being rewarded beyond one's deserts or expectations: have been ~ in my business investments. deserve应得的，可贬可褒，如I don't deserve you我配不上你，大多数时候是反讽，如you deserve your success你的成功名至实归，是褒义 happy combines the implications of lucky and fortunate, with its more common meaning of being blessed: a life that has been a series of ~ accidents. providential more definitely implies the help or intervention of a higher power in the coming of good or the averting of evil fortune: it was ~ that the rescuers arrived in the nick of time.