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单词 fate
释义
fate
noun
uk
/feɪt/us
/feɪt/
B2[Cusually singular]
whathappensto aparticularpersonor thing,especiallysomethingfinalornegative, such asdeathordefeat:
命中注定的事；命运；（尤指）厄运
Wewanttodecideourown fate.我们想决定自己的命运。
His fate is now in thehandsof thejury.现在他的命运掌握在陪审团的手中。
Thediscipleswereterrifiedthat they wouldsuffer/meetthe same fate asJesus.门徒们很害怕遭遇和耶稣一样的命运。
B2[U]
apowerthat somepeoplebelievecausesandcontrolsallevents, so that you cannotchangeorcontrolthe way things willhappen:
天意；定数
When wemetagain bychancein Cairo, Ifeltit must be fate.当我们再度在开罗偶遇时，我觉得这一定是天意了。
Fate hasbroughtus together.天意让我们相聚。
More examples
  • But for acrueltwistof fate, he could now berunninghis ownbusiness.
  • Heshowedastoicresignationtowards his fate.
  • It issomehowfixedin mymindthat my fate and that woman's areintertwined.
  • By anoddquirkof fate, weendedup on the sametrain.
  • The fates of bothcountriesseemsomehowentwined.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Inevitable
  • all roads lead to Romeidiom
  • automatic
  • automatically
  • be (only) a matter of timeidiom
  • be damned ifyoudo and damned ifyoudon'tidiom
  • be nothing for itidiom
  • be part and parcel ofsomethingidiom
  • implacability
  • implacable
  • implacably
  • inalienable
  • ineluctable
  • inexorably
  • it can't be helpedidiom
  • relentless
  • relentlessly
  • relentlessness
  • seal
  • unavoidably
  • unstoppable
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Fate and destiny

Idioms

a fate worse than death
the Fates
(Definition offatefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

fate| American Dictionary

fate
noun[Cusually sing]
us
/feɪt/
something thathappensto apersonor thing,esp. somethingfinalornegative, such asdeathordefeat:
The fate ofnumeroussmallerbuildingsis underdebate.
Attendance has notpickedup, and the fate of the show is still indoubt.
Fate is also apowerthat isconsideredtocauseandcontrolallevents, so thatpeoplecannotchangeorcontrolthe way things willhappen:
When wemetagain bychance, she said, "It must be fate."

Idiom

a fate worse than death
(Definition offatefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffate

fate
Butfatetook him in a different direction.
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There is a need to understand thefateand behaviour of hydrocarbon contaminants in these extreme systems.
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The subsequentfateof the female centrosome is unclear, but it appears to lose both microtubule nucleating activity and reproductive ability.
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It is perhaps up to all of us to ensure that this book does not share thatfate.
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In the trunk region, several signaling pathways and transcription factors have been implicated in cellfatedecisions of neural crest.
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Integration of proliferation versus differentiation signals that regulate trophoblast stem cellfate.
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In spite of its historical framework the work is dominated by the fates of its three principal characters.
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The dry woman needs water, and herfateis thus set from the beginning: she is doomed to find it.
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Instead, he rants about thefateof drug addicts and nonviolent offenders, doomed to a life in jail.
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There is no principled way to justify the claim that a person's eternalfateis determined at death.
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His young namesake, who duly appears a few numbers on, is evidently in no danger of suffering thefateof those tender babes.
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Evolutionary analysis of law risks a similarfate, but there are nonetheless significant differences.
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An abiding sense of loss and longing seems the necessary accompaniment of assuming responsibility for our ownfate, individually and collectively.
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I shall briefly summarize43 the social changes in the frontier after incorporation before outlining the quarantine laws and theirfate.
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It is possible that thefateof the third of migrants who were general labourers was a factor in this.
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Collocationswithfate

fate

These are words often used in combination withfate.

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cell fate
In the trunk region, several signaling pathways and transcription factors have been implicated in cell fate decisions of neural crest.
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eventual fate
Recent investigations in long-term neural crest tracing reveal that theireventualfateis apoptosis, which in our opinion is indicative of an earlier inductive function.
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inevitable fate
Phonologisation is not an inevitable fate for intrusive vowels, nor does it happen automatically upon their reaching some threshold of phonetic duration.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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