fated

Word family

fat·ed /ˈfeɪtɪd/ adjectiveadj

CERTAINLY/DEFINITELYcertain to happen or to do something because a mysterious force is controlling events 命运决定的，命中注定的 SYN destined

be fated to do something

I’m fated to spend my last years in an old folks’ home.

我注定要在养老院里度过晚年。

→ ill-fated

Examples from the Corpus

fated• But he was still fated not to complete his voyage without problems.• Even so, he feared that St Matthew's was fated to be the centre of a dreadful attention.• His daughter was fated to face the same problem.

be fated to do something• It seems that she was fated to be alone in life.• Think of it this way: Two people are wrecked on an island and one of them is fated to be murdered.• It was not ideal but it was a faitaccompli and one was fated to comply with it.• Cook may have sensed that, like a cloud of anti-matter, he was fated to destroy whatever he discovered.• Achilles was fated to die after Hector.• Achilles was kept back by his mother. She knew that if he went to Troy he was fated to die there.• Admetos, king of Thessaly, is fated to die unless some one is prepared to die in his place.• Apollo had declared that he was fated to kill his father.• Harold Steptoe, for all his bourgeois dreams, was fated to live in a rag and bone shop.• Bonnie and Clyde were fated to meet death in 1934.• As we now know, the various postcommunist countries were fated to suffer through severe economic crises.

fat·ed adjectiveadj

Chinese

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Corpus

BNC: 40341 COCA: 21420

fated

Certain or likely to happen: certain, likely, probable...

Fate and destiny: fate, destiny, providence...

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