核心畫面
One way to hold it: a road that is already laid down ahead of you. You will walk it, and the big turns on it are not yours to move — where it ends was settled before you got there. Sometimes English talks about the road itself; sometimes about whatever laid it down.
可以想成前面早就鋪好的一條路。你會走上去,路上那幾個大轉彎不是你能移動的——它通到哪裡,在你出發之前就定了。英文有時…更多收起
可以想成前面早就鋪好的一條路。你會走上去,路上那幾個大轉彎不是你能移動的——它通到哪裡,在你出發之前就定了。英文有時候用 destiny 講這條路本身(會發生在你身上的事),有時候用它講「是誰鋪了這條路」的那股力量。原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Destinyname
- 1
An unincorporated community in Osceola County, Florida, United States.
- 2
A female given name from English.
- The man smiled and extended his hand. "I'm Cole." Rebecca took his hand. "Destiny." She'd chosen the name because she felt as though she'd discovered just that the day she realized what her mission in life was to be.
destinynoun/ˈdɛs.tɪ.ni/
- 1
That to which any person or thing is destined; a predetermined state; a condition predestined by the Divine or by human will.
- Death is the destiny of all mortal men.
- Her death (April 18, 1881) left the Empress Ts‘ŭ Hsi, the playmate of her youth, the sole Regent of China, with the destiny of four hundred millions of human beings in her hands.
- 2
That which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
- Ain't no use to fight it / Don't tamper with my destiny / Any way you slice it / I'm in the hands of fate, you see
- 3
One's eventual fate (not necessarily inevitable or predestined).
- Everywhere the atom bombs are dropping / It's the end of all humanity / No more time for last-minute shopping / It's time to face your final destiny
- Suspended between two ancient trees in some woody wonderland, the nearby brook babblingly bubbling to itself, the gently cooling breezes sweeping away all things bothersome, we self-sway each other to our own rhythms, and all our manifest destinies are ahhhsome.
- 4
The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; an irresistible power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.
- Dara doesn't believe in using dating apps - she insists that destiny will find her other half.
- There were two kinds of beardom opposed here, two futures, two destinies.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。