Destiny
['destɪnɪ] or ['dɛstəni]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future.
(noun.) the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman); 'we are helpless in the face of destiny'.
編輯:帕特里克--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.
(n.) The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.
埃德蒙手打
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Lot, doom, fortune, fate, star, destination.[2]. Fate, necessity, decrees of fate, wheel of fortune.
布雷特整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Fate, decree, lot, fortune, predestination, necessity, doom, end
ANT:Will, volition, choice, deliberation, freedom, freewill
編輯:梅尔维尔
娱乐性解釋/意思:
n. A tyrant's authority for crime and fool's excuse for failure.
整理:泰勒
例句/造句/用法:
- They fulfill their destiny in issuing, later on, into specific and perceptible acts. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Then because men were clearer about what they were doing, they could in a measure direct their destiny. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Sitting down before this dark comforter, I presently fell into a deep argument with myself on life and its chances, on destiny and her decrees. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- It is my destiny. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Was it her own fault or that of destiny? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Never before have men stood so barely face to face with the community of their interests and their common destiny. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was surely that I might fulfil my destiny, which is now drawing to a close. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- For tears, for sadness, or for mirth, You rule my destiny on earth. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- There's a destiny in these things, gentlemen; we can't help it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- What its future is to be no man may say, but its destiny is not yet fulfilled, and it is pregnant with potential possibilities. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- A wild destiny for that mother to have foreseen! 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- It was himself he had to care for, his hopes he had to pursue; and he would fulfil his destiny. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- In one circumstance only, my Marianne, may your destiny be different from hers! 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- So was it with these stones, the ocean is their eternity, a nd each note of that wild music told of one more step towards their destiny. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The destinies of society are felt to be too solidly set in industrial conditions to allow any cultural direction. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- But, no; in times of misery we must fight against our destinies, and strive not to be overcome by them. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- It has altered the destinies of---- Three people. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Chemists--I assert it emphatically--might sway, if they pleased, the destinies of humanity. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- This destruction of Thebes betrayed a streak of crazy violence in the new master of human destinies. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- John Edison was long-lived, like his father, and reached the ripe old age of 102, leaving his son Samuel charged with the care of the family destinies, but with no great burden of wealth. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Impossible to trust ourselves with the touching tale of your deeds and destinies. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The magic mirror is here: you shall learn their destinies--and first that of your little life, Jessy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It was as if he heard the destinies of the race calling to him. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- For the first time we have something like a self-governing nation, something larger than a mere city state, seeking to control its own destinies. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- If you had any sympathy with the destinies of the human race, it would raise you high above any such idea. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- To the Anglo-Saxon race has been intrusted the destinies of the world, during its pioneer period of struggle and conflict. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- They had little or no vision of any scheme of human destinies greater than this game they played against one another. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
整理:辛克莱