fate

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events. countable,uncountable
    — Captain Edward Carlisle[…]felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze,[…]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
  2. The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause. countable,uncountable
  3. An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time. countable,uncountable
  4. Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc. countable,uncountable
    — Accept your fate.
  5. Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings). alt-of,countable,uncountable
  6. The products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere. countable,uncountable
    — It’s important to research chemical fate because chemical fate is the best tool we have for understanding and managing human health risks or environmental damage caused by chemical release.
  7. The mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable. transitive
    — The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.

词形变化

fates plural fates present,singular,third-person fating participle,present fated participle,past fated past

词汇关系

近义词
chance destin destiny doom fatality fate foredoom foreordination fortune kismet lot orlay portion predestination predestiny preordination qadar weird wyrd
反义词
choice free will luck
上位词
sure thing
下位词
happy ever after wanweird
衍生词
as fate would have it cheat fate fatal fatalism fatality fated fate-fraught fatefraught fateful fateless fatelike fate map fatesome fickle finger of fate fucked by the fickle finger of fate leave someone to their fate quirk of fate red string of fate seal someone's fate sure as fate tempt fate twist of fate
相关词
amor fati determinism indeterminism date with destiny twist of fate quirk of fate inevitable inevitably

词源

词源 1
From Middle English fate, from Latin fāta (“prediction”), plural of fātum, from fātus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”). In this sense, displaced native Old English wyrd, whence Modern English weird.
词源 2
From Middle English fate, from Latin fāta (“prediction”), plural of fātum, from fātus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”). In this sense, displaced native Old English wyrd, whence Modern English weird.
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