Fate

[feɪt] or [fet]

解释:

(n.) A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.

(n.) Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.

(n.) The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.

(n.) The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcaewho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.

塞西莉整理

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Destiny, destination, fatality, inevitable necessity.[2]. Doom, lot, predetermined event.[3]. Death, destruction.[4]. Final event, ultimate fortune.

埃维塔校对

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Necessity, destiny, lot, end, fortune, doom

ANT:Will, choice, decision, freedom, independence

录入:萨姆纳

解释:

n. inevitable destiny or necessity: appointed lot: ill-fortune: doom: final issue: (pl.) the three goddesses of fate Clotho Lachesis and Atropos who determined the birth life and death of men—the Fatal Sisters.—adj. Fāt′al belonging to or appointed by fate: causing ruin or death: mortal: calamitous.—ns. Fāt′alism the doctrine that all events are subject to fate and happen by unavoidable necessity; Fāt′alist one who believes in fatalism.—adj. Fāt′alistic belonging to or partaking of fatalism.—n. Fatal′ity the state of being fatal or unavoidable: the decree of fate: fixed tendency to disaster or death: mortality: a fatal occurrence.—adv. Fāt′ally.—adjs. Fāt′ed doomed: destined: (Shak.) invested with the power of destiny: (Dryden) enchanted; Fate′ful charged with fate.—adv. Fate′fully.—n. Fate′fulness.

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