喜樂美語

核心畫面

One way to picture fate: the ending that is already waiting at the end of the road, whether or not you can see it. English mostly points the word at endings that turned out badly — which is why 'we don't know his fate' sounds worried, not neutral.

可以想成 fate 是「路的盡頭已經在那裡等著的那個結局」，不管你看不看得見。英文用這個字時多半指向不太好的結果——…更多收起可以想成 fate 是「路的盡頭已經在那裡等著的那個結局」，不管你看不看得見。英文用這個字時多半指向不太好的結果——所以 we don't know his fate 聽起來是擔心，而不是中性的「不知道他後來怎樣」。

From the picture

安排結局的那股力量

如果結局早就在那裡等著，那是誰放的？這個用法把鏡頭從結局本身移到那個看不見的安排者。

fate as a controlling power · noun · B2

A power that some people believe controls what happens in life and cannot be changed.

命運（天意）

Also in this word

what happens to someone · noun · B2

What finally happens to someone or something, especially something bad.

命運／下場

原始詞典資料10 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。

Fatename

  • 1

    Any one of the Fates.

  • 2

    A personification of fate (the cause that predetermines events).

fatenoun/feɪt/

  • 1

    The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.

    • Captain Edward Carlisle[…]felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze,[…]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
  • 2

    The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.

  • 3

    An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.

  • 4

    Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.

    • Accept your fate.
  • 5

    biochemistrybiologychemistryThe products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.

    • It’s important to research chemical fate because chemical fate is the best tool we have for understanding and managing human health risks or environmental damage caused by chemical release.
  • 6

    embryologymedicinesciencesThe mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint

fateverb/feɪt/

  • 1

    To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.

    • The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.
    • Before they met, Rebecca Guberman and Jennifer Jako were both certain they were fated to be alone.

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。