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preordained

/pree-awr-deyn/US // ˌpri ɔrˈdeɪn //UK // (ˌpriːɔːˈdeɪn) //

命中注定,命中注定的,命定的,注定的

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to ordain beforehand; foreordain.

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Examples

  • But I thought it was worth underscoring because when it comes to science, we assume all previous discoveries were preordained.

  • It was supposedly preordained, ever since Peyton Manning shredded the Baltimore Ravens for seven touchdowns in the season opener.

  • The witches generally represent some version of the Fates and make Macbeth believe that life is preordained.

  • Historical destinies are directional, not precisely preordained.

  • It is preordained that I am to be nothing but a cumberer of the ground.

  • It does not mean that a given person is preordained from eternity to act in a given way, no matter what the circumstances are.

  • Heretofore it had been a thing taken for granted, preordained as the alternate coming of light and of darkness.

  • The preordained time has now arrived, and Emmanuel himself is to take the command.

  • But please to think of Juliet after ten years of Romeo and his pin-headed intelligence and his preordained infidelities.

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