| 单词 | fate |
| 释义 | fate I. 1. a. b. < fate in Greek tragedy becomes the order of nature in modern thought — A.N.Whitehead > — compare determinism 2. a. < her fate was to remain a spinster > b. < the villain met his fate at the hands of the hero > c. < the congress decided the bill's fate by a single vote > < the explorer's party left no trace of the fate that overcame them > < the importance of an individual thinker … depends upon the fate of his ideas in the mind of his successors — A.N.Whitehead > d. < all human beings live as members of organized groups and have their fate inextricably bound up with that of the group to which they belong — Ralph Linton > 3. < waiting there, standing like a fate in the center of the carpet, a gaunt, gray, somber woman — G.W.Brace > < my great-aunts, formidable fates who sat in judgment on all the events of their time — Hugh Dickinson > < the fates … have smiled with an astonishing kindness on his wanderings in the jungle — Geographical Journal > Synonyms: < no matter how absurd or meaningless our fate may be, we still must accept it and play our role — J.M.O'Brien > < through knowledge man can control his own fate — Abram Kardiner > < it is the fate of all these lakes to disappear — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < preparing for the end, for the final grim defense, when his men would retreat upon the one last strong fort, and there await their fate — Gilbert Parker > < the fate of the congressional bill was uncertain > destiny implies an irrevocable determination, course, or appointment, as by the will of the gods, but out of context specifies neither a good nor bad course or end, more often, possibly, implying a course conceived of as good by the one destined because it is conceived of as a natural fulfillment < not to impose their view of life upon any people but to inspire in all peoples an understanding of their common destiny — Stephen Duggan > < for good or ill, that clubfoot, like the mark of Jason in her life, had been his destiny — Ellen Glasgow > < always had with him, too, the special conviction of destiny — that his was a great age of history, and that he was born to act in and dominate these times — Henry Wallace > < the conception of a lordly splendid destiny for the human race, to which we are false when we revert to wars and other atavistic folies — Bertrand Russell > lot and portion imply a distribution by fate or destiny, lot suggesting more a blind chance, portion implying a more or less fair apportioning of good and evil < shunned extremes of passion or suffering, declaring that these were seldom the common lot — Encyc. Americana > < it fell to the lot of the United States to scrap thirty-two ships — C.E.Black & E.C.Helmreich > < poverty was his portion all his days — Kemp Malone > < a feeling of guilty remorse was her daily portion — Susan Ertz > < she is not the saint he deems it the portion of every creature wearing petticoats to be — George Meredith > doom implies a final, usually grim and calamitous, award or fate < thirty-two brave men of Gonzales, who marched in even after the doom of the fort seemed certain — American Guide Series: Texas > < lured unsuspecting ships to their doom on the rocks on dark and stormy nights — Richard Joseph > < the poor beast's ribs stood out under a coating of snow as it stood there, awaiting its doom — F.V.W.Mason > II. < the two seemed fated for each other > also < the deep antipathy … seeming to fate them to antagonism — Les Savage > < novel about a fated beauty — Newsweek > III. dialect Britain variant of feat IV. < prospective fate of embryonic cells > |
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