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词汇 destiny
释义 destiny
noun
uk /ˈdes.tɪ.ni/ us /ˈdes.tɪ.ni/
C1[ C ]
the things that will happen in the future: 前途;命运
destiny ofThe destiny of our nation depends on this vote!我们国家的前途取决于这次选举!
shape someone's destinyShe felt that her destiny had been shaped by her gender.她觉得自己的性别已经决定了自己的命运。
control/determine your destiny People want to control/determine their own destinies.
C1[ U ]
the force that some people think controls what happens in the future, and is outside human control: 命运之神;老天,上苍
You can't fight destiny.你无法与命运之神抗争。
He is a tragic victim of destiny.他是命运的不幸牺牲品。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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ahead
ahead of
all in good timeidiom
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ASAP
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in
in for somethingidiom
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posterity
presently
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shortly
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Fate and destiny

destiny | American Dictionary


destiny
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈdes·tə·ni/
the particular state of a person or thing in the future, considered as resulting from earlier events:
[ C ]We all want to determine our own destinies.
Destiny is the force that some people think controls what happens in the future, and which cannot be influenced by people.

Examples of destiny


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Concentration on moral categories leads some authors to overrate the extent to which humans can subdue their lower natures and act to decide their own destinies.
Their libertarianism consists largely in acknowledging refractory incongruities that distinguish various moral communities, and in insisting that communities remain free to chart their own moral destinies.
We must put an end to selfishness and see our destinies bound together.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
We have been in control of their destinies for 125 or 130 years.
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Other factors which are often beyond the control of those who guide the destinies of particular newspapers result in failure.
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There has been a divorce between the instruments of government and the people over whose destinies they preside.
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We prefer to entrust our fate to their verdict rather than to the gentlemen who have hitherto had too much power in shaping our destinies.
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Certainly it would not affect the destinies of this country.
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They must not deny to the peoples of those territories the right to decide their own destinies, not only politically but economically as well.
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In those countries whose destinies have been guided by people determined, come what may, to preserve their own privileges there has been disaster.
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I understand the frustration that they feel when decisions about their livelihoods and work destinies are taken so far away from local level.
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In a life-and-death struggle we cannot afford to have our destinies in the hands of failures or men who need a rest.
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At some time or other, if luck comes our way, we may be called upon to control the destinies of the nation.
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The destinies of people who will rely in future on social housing at affordable rents will be determined by the decisions that we take today.
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She is the mistress of her own destinies.
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