| 词汇 | fateful |
| 释义 | fateful adjective[ before noun ] uk /ˈfeɪt.fəl/ us /ˈfeɪt.fəl/ having an important and usually negative effect on the future: 对未来有重大（负面）影响的 fateful daythe fateful day of President Kennedy's assassination肯尼迪总统遇刺的灾难性的一天 He made the fateful decision to send in the troops.他作出了派遣部队这个影响重大的决定。 Good luck and bad luck align bad/hard/tough luck!idiom be bad luck on someoneidiom be down on your luckidiom be in/out of luckidiom blessing fortune smiles on someoneidiom get the short end of the stickidiom godsend grace hapless mercifully mercy miracle misadventure mischance streak voodoo with any luckidiom your luck's in!idiom fateful | American Dictionaryfateful adjective us/ˈfeɪt·fəl/ having a very important and often negative effect on the future: In 1971, President Richard Nixon made a fateful decision to install tape recorders in the White House. Examples of fatefulfateful To the extent that the hearings have a fateful bearing on people's lives, then they can also be seen as drama. Even during the fateful year 1953, the two alternatives can therefore be seen as operating more in tandem than against each other. The category membership is not the fault of the individual; it is determined merely by the throw of the genetic dice or a 'fateful' act. Indeed, this fateful day in the girl's life belonged as much to her family as to herself. The procession through the streets was merely the last and fateful step. Even before this turn from consensus and dissensus, before this turn against the hallowed textual ideology, the challenger's stance-behavior foreshadows the debate's fateful trajectory. Whatever the reason, there certainly seems a reluctance, or inability, to accept the music as representative of the fateful encounter. One fateful decision was made in the light of this perspective, and also in fulfillment of a project of sovereignty assertion by military expansion. This was a fateful mistake. Sometimes it merely postponed the fateful denouement. Vincent proceeds to call the fateful race. He has speedily put in place a thorough investigation of what went so terribly wrong that fateful morning two weeks ago. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Every newspaper carried the story on its front page and the impact of that fateful day will never be forgotten by any of us. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Moreover, this fateful human tragedy is made all the worse by the fact that there is no known cure for the disease at this time. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English One fateful morning, two workers got into the bucket and were lowered halfway down a quarry face. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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