fate
noun /feɪt/
/feɪt/
Idioms - [countable] the things, especially bad things, that will happen or have happened to somebody/something
命中注定的事（尤指坏事）；命运的安排 - The fate of the three men is unknown.
这三个人命运未卜。 - She sat outside, waiting to find out her fate.
她坐在外面，等待命运对她作出的安排。 - The court will decide our fate/fates.
法庭将决定我们的命运。 - Each of the managers suffered the same fate.
每一个经理命运都是如此。 - The government had abandoned the refugees to their fate.
政府抛弃了难民，让他们听天由命。 - From that moment our fate was sealed (= our future was decided).
从那时起我们的命运就已经注定了。
- He faces a grim fate if he is sent back to his own country.
如果他被遣送回国，他的命运将会很悲惨。 - He had no desire to share the fate of his executed comrades.
他不想遭受与他那些被处决的同志同样的命运。 - He had signed his confession and sealed his own fate.
他在自己的供状上签了字，也就决定了自己的命运。 - He will learn his fate in court tomorrow.
明天到了法庭他就会知道自己的命运。 - His brother met an altogether different fate.
他哥哥的命运截然不同。 - His fate rests in the hands of the judges.
他的命运掌握在法官们的手中。 - Instead of just bemoaning your fate, why not do something to change it?
与其悲叹自己的命运，何不行动起来去改变它呢？ - Jackson deserves a better fate than this.
杰克逊的命运应该比这样好。 - Our fate is tied to yours.
我们的命运和你们的紧密相连。 - She broke her ankle before the big game, then suffered the same fate a month later.
大赛之前她弄伤了脚踝，一个月后她又遇到了同样的不幸。 - She faces an uncertain fate.
她面临着一个不确切的命运。 - She has taken steps to control her own fate.
她已采取措施以掌控自己的命运。 - She managed to escape the fate of the other rebels.
她总算逃过了其他造反者的厄运。 - The condemned men were resigned to their fate.
被判刑的人只好接受自己的命运。 - The convicts awaited their fate in prison.
已决犯在狱中等待着自己的命运。 - The fate of the African wild dog hangs in the balance.
非洲野狗的命运还是个未知数。 - The jury held the fate of the accused in their hands.
陪审团掌握着被告的命运。 - The ultimate fate of the captured troops is unknown.
没有人知道被俘部队的最终命运。 - They decided to kill themselves rather than suffer a worse fate at the hands of their enemy.
他们决定宁愿自杀也不愿落在敌人的手里，那样命运会更惨。 - They were warned of the dreadful fate that awaited them if ever they returned to their homes.
他们受到警告：如果回家就会面临可怕的命运。 - They're worried about their political fate.
他们担心自己的政治结局。 - This team's fate depends on how it performs today.
该队的命运取决于它今天在比赛中的表现。 - Under-representation is the likely fate of small parties.
得不到足够的代表很可能是小党派的命运。 - What an unfortunate fate the gods had condemned her to.
众神加诸她的是多么不幸的命运啊。 - What had he done to deserve such a terrible fate?
他到底做了什么，竟然遭受这样悲惨的命运？ - Will it change the fate of the company?
这会改变公司的命运吗？ - Worst of all was the fate that befell the captured rebel general.
那个被俘的叛军将领命运最为悲惨。 - the almost inevitable fate awaiting gorillas and tigers
等待大猩猩和老虎的几乎无法避免的命运 - the rights of a woman to choose the fate of her body
女性选择自己身体命运的权利 - From the moment the hijackers took over the plane, their fate was sealed.
从劫机者劫持飞机的那一刻起，他们的命运就已经注定了。 - Fortunately, Robert was spared this cruel fate.
罗伯特有幸免遭这一残酷结局。 - He had no idea what fate was in store for him.
他不知道等待他的将是什么样的命运。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- awful
- grim
- horrible
- …
- face
- meet
- suffer
- …
- await somebody/something
- be in store for somebody/something
- lie in store for somebody/something
- …
- leave your fate in somebody’s hands
- place your fate in somebody’s hands
- put your fate in somebody’s hands
- …
- The fate of the three men is unknown.
- [uncountable] the power that is believed to control everything that happens and that cannot be stopped or changed
命运；天数；定数；天意 - Fate was kind to me that day.
那天我很幸运。 - By a strange twist of fate, Andy and I were on the same plane.
由于命运的奇特安排，我和安迪乘坐了同一架飞机。
Synonyms luckluck- chance
- coincidence
- accident
- fate
- destiny
- luck the force that causes good or bad things to happen to people:
- This ring has always brought me good luck.
这戒指总是给我带来好运。
- This ring has always brought me good luck.
- chance the way that some things happen without any cause that you can see or understand:
- The results could simply be due to chance.
这结果可能纯属意外。
- The results could simply be due to chance.
- coincidence the fact of two things happening at the same time by chance, in a surprising way:
- They met through a series of strange coincidences.
他们因一连串奇妙的巧合而相遇。
- They met through a series of strange coincidences.
- accident something that happens unexpectedly and is not planned in advance:
- Their early arrival was just an accident.
他们早到仅仅是偶然而已。
- Their early arrival was just an accident.
- fate the power that is believed to control everything that happens and that cannot be stopped or changed:
- Fate decreed that she would never reach America.
命中注定她永远到不了美国。
- Fate decreed that she would never reach America.
- destiny the power that is believed to control events:
- I believe there’s some force guiding us—call it God, destiny or fate.
我认为有某种力量在指引着我们，称之为上帝也罢，天意也罢，或是命运也罢。
- I believe there’s some force guiding us—call it God, destiny or fate.
用 fate 还是 destiny？ - by …luck/chance/coincidence/accident
- It’s no coincidence/accident that…
- pure/sheer luck/chance/coincidence/accident
- to believe in luck/coincidences/fate/destiny
Topics Religion and festivalsc1- Anne accepted the cruel hand that fate had dealt her.
安妮接受了残酷的命运。 - Fate decreed that she would never reach America.
命中注定她永远到不了美国。 - Fate took a hand in (= influenced ) the outcome of the championship.
冠军争夺赛的最终结果系天命所归。 - Fate was not smiling upon her today.
她今天运气不好。 - For some reason fate conspired against them and everything they did was problematic.
不知为什么，他们时运不济，做什么事都困难重重。 - He believed that the universe was controlled by the whims of a cruel fate.
他相信宇宙是由变幻莫测而残酷的宿命主宰的。 - He secretly hoped that fate would intervene and save him having to meet her.
他暗自希望老天帮忙，别让他碰见她。 - He was content standing aside, letting fate take its course.
他甘愿置身事外，一切听天由命。 - I have a great deal of trust and I leave everything to fate.
我很有信心，一切听天由命吧。 - It seemed a cruel twist of fate that the composer should have died so young.
这位作曲家英年早逝似乎是残酷的宿命。 - Little did she know what fate had in store for her.
她几乎不知道等待她的命运是什么。 - Only weeks later fate struck again, leaving her unable to compete.
仅仅几周后，她再次遭受命运打击，不能参加比赛。 - Such coincidences are almost enough to make one believe in fate.
这样的巧合几乎足以让人相信命运。 - The new job had come at just the right time for him. Was it the hand of fate?
这份新工作对他来说来得正是时候，是命运的安排吗？ - the prophet who predicts fate and can see the future
能预测命运、预知将来的预言家 - He suddenly started to rail against fate and all the things that had happened to him.
他突然开始抱怨命运和发生在他身上的所有事情。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- cruel
- kind
- believe in
- tempt
- leave something to
- …
- decide something
- decree something
- intervene
- …
- an accident of fate
- a turn of fate
- a twist of fate
- …
- Fate was kind to me that day.
词源late Middle English: from Italian fato or (later) from its source, Latin fatum ‘that which has been spoken’, from fari ‘speak’.
Idioms
a fate worse than death
- (often humorous) a terrible thing that could happen
（可能发生的）极可怕的事 - At the last minute the hero saves her from a fate worse than death.
在最后一刻，英雄将她从比死亡更糟糕的命运中拯救出来。
- Getting married seemed a fate worse than death.
结婚似乎比死还要难受。 - Obeying her parents' wishes for her life seemed a fate worse than death.
她一辈子都听从父母的安排，真还不如死了呢。
- At the last minute the hero saves her from a fate worse than death.
Wordfinder
- amulet
- charm
- coincidence
- fate
- fortune
- jinx
- luck
- mascot
- superstition
- talisman
tempt fate/providence
- to do something too confidently in a way that might mean that your good luck will come to an end
玩命；冒险；鲁莽 - She felt it would be tempting fate to try the difficult climb a second time.
她觉得再次尝试这种高难度的攀岩就如同玩儿命了。 - It would be tempting fate to say that we will definitely win the game.
要说我们肯定会赢得这场比赛，还真有点儿冒险。
- She felt it would be tempting fate to try the difficult climb a second time.