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词汇 preordain
释义 preordain
verb[ T ]
 formaluk /ˌpriː.ɔːˈdeɪn/ us /ˌpriː.ɔːrˈdeɪn/
(especially of a power thought to be greater than ordinary people) to decide or fix what will happen in a way that cannot be changed or controlled: (尤指超越凡人的力量)预先决定,预先规定,注定
[ + to infinitive ]Illness and suffering seemed (to be) preordained to be her lot.看来她命中注定了要遭受疾病和苦难。
His life seems to have followed a preordained path/direction.他的人生似乎遵循着冥冥中业已注定的轨迹/方向前行。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Planning, expecting and arranging
accidentally
accidentally on purposeidiom
advertent
advisedly
aim at something
bargain
conscious
game something out
have something in mindidiom
have something up your sleeveidiom
horizon scanning
how are you fixed for something?idiom
pencil
provident
providently
provision
purpose
purposefully
purposely
settle

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Fate and destiny

Examples of preordain


preordain
As there were also no legal impediments to their acquistion of property, an application to one of the curiae was almost preordained.
If our fate is preordained (in our genes or in the stars), then implicitly it cannot be undone.
Such a division had been preordained in the creation of man.
But these are just random weights, not discrete preordained parameter settings.
The eight-dollar level is in no way preordained.
The outcome does not appear to have been preordained, and it is possible that their opinions played a role in resolving the situation.
They may be intentional, unintentional, or structural and are not deterministic, random, or teleologically preordained.
It was not inevitable or preordained.
Under such circumstances his fate was preordained.
This intuition is built into the human mechanism, preordaining a discomfort that ranges from uneasiness to pure existential dread whenever we ponder the possibility that conscious will is an illusion.
In sum, the importance of party for voting patterns on them notwithstanding, the outcome of free votes is not preordained by the partisan distribution of parliamentary seats.
Although actuaries ultimately emerged stronger than ever from their mid-century crisis of commercial fortune and professional identity, the process of recovery was neither preordained nor easy.
While all these aspects might contribute to a greater uptake of agent technology, one thing that must not be standardized or preordained is the internal design of agents.
The specific terms and the details of the consecutive deals would have been difficult to predict, but the goals of the political actors were preordained by their ethno-linguistic background.
The danger is that, because people exercise a choice, they start to preordain in which direction a school will be pushed.
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