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fateful

/feyt-fuhl/US // ˈfeɪt fəl //UK // (ˈfeɪtfʊl) //

命中注定,命中注定的,命运之神,命中注定的事

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having momentous significance or consequences; decisively important; portentous: a fateful meeting between the leaders of the two countries.
    • : fatal, deadly, or disastrous.
    • : controlled or determined by destiny; inexorable.
    • : prophetic; ominous.

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Examples

  • Just like that fateful 911 call, the first reports about the shooting – made public by police officials and published by local media outlets – were characterized by falsehoods and information gaps.

  • For the first few decades, Wheaties athletes were depicted on the back of the box, but in 1958 the brand made a fateful choice.

  • There was this fateful day when you observed a chimpanzee sticking a stalk of grass into a termite hole and then pulling out the stalk that was now covered in termites and eating them.

  • In a potentially fateful decision, it funded work similar to Baric’s at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which soon used its own reverse-genetics technology to make numerous coronavirus chimeras.

  • This week on a music-themed edition of Wherever You Get Your Podcasts, we take a deep dive into hip-hop’s history, learn about a king’s fateful haircut, discover the lost music of Tanzania and explore the multifaceted glory that is the Dollyverse.

  • The Malaysian crew said they could not comply—the report gives no reason for what was very likely a fateful decision.

  • Lindsay Lohan was also spotted at the restaurant that fateful night.

  • On that fateful Friday, July 13th, Sanders joined Democratic staff investigator Scott Armstrong in questioning Butterfield.

  • In the wake of that fateful 2008 evening, Cotillard has worked for, and alongside, some of the biggest names in Hollywood.

  • A few days after this fateful visit, each visionary reported seeing images of rivers of blood and headless corpses.

  • As the music wailed its dying cadences into this fateful silence, Tom met her eyes across the room.

  • Winifred, naturally a high-spirited and lively girl, soon recovered from the fright of that fateful Sunday evening.

  • But the immediate interest centres in the fateful attempt to relieve the castle of Stirling.

  • She had declared that she arrived at Hill Street about seven o'clock on that fateful second of September.

  • On this fateful date, the feature had been completed and the afterpiece was being enacted.