predestined
命中注定的,命中注定,宿命,宿命的
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pre·des·tined, pre·des·tin·ing.
- : to destine in advance; foreordain; predetermine: He seemed predestined for the ministry.
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With so many contrasting views the outcome of the month-long boycott was predestined to be fragmented.
Al and I talk about whether people have free will or whether life is predestined.
Hispanics may not be “natural conservatives,” but are they natural unconservatives, somehow predestined to adopt liberal views?
The father of Mr. Stacy Marks predestined him for the coach-building business.
Bill Barry's taunt about cash payment touched the pride of some, but the outcome of the matter was predestined from the beginning.
The incidents of the convention had convinced him that the Great Experiment was progressing according to some predestined formula.
The people who were predestined to be lost they described as reprobate, and this word we still use, but with a different meaning.
Is it the shadow cast by the dark deeds of former days, to which the city seems predestined by its very situation?