Fate

(n.) A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.

(n.) Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.

(n.) The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.

(n.) The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcaewho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.

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• Mine is a curious fate. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Own now that you were going to join the army and leave us to our fate. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• And what, think you, may have been the fate of the princess, Dejah Thoris? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• But one word of the fate of poor Gurth, and I have done with questioning thee. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• After all, I have played my part to the best of my ability on this life's stage, but Fate has been too strong for me. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• A gloomy Fate had oppressed her there. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• With these words, the matron dropped into her chair, and, once more resting her elbow on the table, thought of her solitary fate. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Yet they all had lived and died unconscious of the different fates awaiting their relics. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The fates are against you, Watson, said he, laughing. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Most of us, indeed, know little of the great originators until they have been lifted up among the constellations and already rule our fates. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The fates have not been kind to you, Eustacia Yeobright. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Or the verse 'The saddest of fates is to die and meet destiny from hunger? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• But what you may call the Fates ordered him into it again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Other vengeance than mine had followed that fated man from the theatre to his own door--from his own door to his refuge in Paris. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Far up in a sheltered nook, under the red cliffs, twelve graves had been dug in the soft sand, and in these were the ill-fated seamen laid. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The attachment between them led to the ill-fated marriage, of which I was the offspring. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Upon my word and honour I seem to be fated, and destined, and ordained, to live in the midst of things that I am never to hear the last of. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Is it not your duty to yourself to forget this ill-fated attachment? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• But it was not fated that I should sleep that night. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I entered the cabin, where lay the remains of my ill-fated and admirable friend. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.

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