| 单词 | as sure as fate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas sure as fate a. gen. Also in plural. Predestined events. as sure as fate: see sure adj. 5a. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > future events > [noun] > destiny or fate whatec1200 gracec1325 destiny1340 portionc1350 sortc1405 weird1508 dolec1520 foredoom1563 fate1667 destinate1675 fatality1699 kismet1849 ultimatum1861 foredestiny1872 ming1937 the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > that which is ordained by fate shapeOE whatec1200 destiny1340 ordinance1340 predestinya1425 eure1430 predestin1558 fate1667 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 173 What I will is Fate. So spake th' Almightie. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 118 Th' inspected Entrails, cou'd no Fates foretel. View more context for this quotation 1733 A. Pope Ess. Man i. 73 Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate. 1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. viii. 152 'Tis the best way of meeting fate. 1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvi. i. 236 There lay in the fates a Third Silesian War for him. < as lemmas |
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