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单词 preordain
释义
preordain
verb[T]
formal
uk
/ˌpriː.ɔːˈdeɪn/us
/ˌpriː.ɔːrˈdeɪn/
(especiallyof apowerthoughtto begreaterthanordinarypeople) todecideorfixwhat willhappenin a way that cannot bechangedorcontrolled:
（尤指超越凡人的力量）预先决定，预先规定，注定
[+ to infinitive]Illness andsufferingseemed(to be) preordainedtobe her lot.看来她命中注定了要遭受疾病和苦难。
Hislifeseemsto havefolloweda preordainedpath/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 atsomething
  • bargain
  • I might have knownidiom
  • I'll/we'll cross that bridge when I/we come/get to itidiom
  • insomeone'scrosshairsidiom
  • in the pipelineidiom
  • in the worksidiom
  • planner
  • provision
  • purposely
  • put the cart before the horseidiom
  • puttheirheads togetheridiom
  • rearrange
  • reckon onsomething
  • settle
  • sleeve
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Fate and destiny
(Definition ofpreordainfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpreordain

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As there were also no legal impediments to their acquistion of property, an application to one of the curiae was almost preordained.
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If our fate is preordained (in our genes or in the stars), then implicitly it cannot be undone.
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Such a division had been preordained in the creation of man.
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But these are just random weights, not discrete preordained parameter settings.
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The eight-dollar level is in no way preordained.
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The outcome does not appear to have been preordained, and it is possible that their opinions played a role in resolving the situation.
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They may be intentional, unintentional, or structural and are not deterministic, random, or teleologically preordained.
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It was not inevitable or preordained.
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Under such circumstances his fate was preordained.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The danger is that, because people exercise a choice, they start topreordainin which direction a school will be pushed.
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