| 词汇 | predestined |
| 释义 | predestined adjective uk /ˌpriːˈdes.tɪnd/ us /ˌpriːˈdes.tɪnd/ If an action or event is predestined, it is controlled by God or by fate: 上天安排的，命中注定的 It seems the expedition is predestined to fail because there have been so many problems.因为有这么多问题存在，看来这次考察注定要失败。 Fate and destiny align break Damocles destined destiny fatalism fate fated ill-fated ill-starred in the lap of the godsidiom lap lightning luckless predestination preordain providence providential sword of Damoclesidiom written in the starsidiom Examples of predestinedpredestined She is frustrated that she cannot make decisions for herself and that she has to live out her life according to predestined dogmas. The purpose of the (predestined) crisis is to open up for a discovery, followed by a cognition or recognition (anagnorisis). From our point of view (looking backwards) everything is predestined; our choices change nothing. Such an undertaking was predestined to yield a volume of significance. The predestined leader, distinguished infinitely easygoing, casual superior. The industrial and political power of the royalty predestined the monarch to possess the 'leading role' in such societies, and this was reflected in the seating arrangments of a theatre. Your resurrection counterpart is thus predestined or fated to live out the improved version of your life just as a computer is fated to follow its programme. And it was the presumption of homology that guaranteed the identity of individual freedom with the freedom of all of humanity in the predestined historical unfolding of the absolute spirit. History had no predestined path: contingent circumstances, chance, and human will would together determine which of the multiple possibilities contained in the present would become fact. The results of the various competitions are not yet known; they are not predestined; in sport, anything can happen. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The economic crisis and the climate crisis were not predestined by fate. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English There are indeed forces of the spirit; great movements towards a predestined sanctuary which cannot be crushed or deflected. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Furthermore, we are uniquely predestined to deal with crises in the world because we have a wide range of instruments available to implement our strategies. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I do not know whether we are to regard this as predestined. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What is so sickening about this catalogue of malaise is that there is nothing predestined or inevitable about it. 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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