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A fatalist is a person, not a belief. The belief is fatalism; the fatalist is the one who holds it. They think events will happen as they are going to happen, and that there is little or nothing you can do to stop them. In real talk this may be a whole life-view, or just a shrug on a bad day: ‘If I don’t get the job, I don’t get the job.’ Some fatalists sound peaceful. Others sound tired. You can be a bit of a fatalist about one thing (the weather, an exam, ) without being one about everything. The word is a little formal, more at home in writing and careful speech than in the playground, but people do use it in conversation when they want to name someone’s attitude. Though actually, accepting that some things are outside your control is ordinary wisdom; a fatalist goes further, and treats trying itself as mostly empty.
宿命論者
組成fatal + -ist. -ist makes a person who follows a belief, as in artist or specialist, but here the belief is fatalism.
同家族的字
- fatalismthe belief this person holds
- fatalisticthe adjective for their way of thinking
- fatethe older ‘already fixed’ idea behind the word
原始詞典資料1 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。
fatalistnoun/ˈfeɪtəlɪst/
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One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity; a person who believes in fatalism.
- ....it is that, with every day, my love for you increases—though that would seem to be almost an impossibility. Why should I not become a fatalist? Remember how, on the third day that we ascended the Shlangenberg, I was moved to whisper in your ear: 'Say but the word, and I will leap into the abyss.' Had you said it, I should have leapt. Do you not believe me?"
- “Maybe the problem is that you’re a romantic,” says my former lover-slash-friend-slash-male-sensitivity-reader. “And maybe so are the other fatalists.”
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。