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Fatalism is the belief that what will happen is already fixed, so your choices cannot really steer it. A person with this outlook does not say, ‘Let’s change the plan.’ They say, in one way or another, ‘It was always going to be like this.’ In philosophy it is a serious idea about fate and freedom. In ordinary talk it is often a mood after bad news — a flood, a war, a failed exam — when people feel that trying is pointless. It can sound calm, even wise; though actually it can also become an excuse for doing nothing, and other people may hear it as giving up. It is an abstract noun for a belief or an attitude, not for a death. Related words share the old ‘fate’ root, but fatal in modern English usually means ‘causing death’, which is a neighbouring idea, not the same one. You will hear fatalism in essays, news, and quiet conversation when someone describes a whole way of looking at life.
宿命論
組成fatal + -ism. fatal comes from fate; -ism names a belief or a way of thinking.
同家族的字
- fatethe idea that events are already laid down
- fatalsame root; in modern English it usually means ‘causing death’
- fatalista person who holds this belief
- fatalisticthe adjective for this way of thinking
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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。
fatalismnoun/ˈfeɪ.təl.ɪz.əm/
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human-sciencesphilosophysciencesThe doctrine that all events are subject to fate or inevitable necessity, or determined in advance in such a way that human beings cannot alter them.
- Sure, maybe. We know — have long known — that romanticism and fatalism are dialectical lovers.
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。