- 1注定的；命中注定
When something is fated, it is going to happen, and nothing you do will stop it — as if a quiet power has already chosen the ending. A person can be fated to do something; two people can be fated to meet. The word belongs more to stories, songs, and serious talk than to the shop or the classroom. In ordinary life people more often say it was meant to be. Though actually, we often call a thing fated only after it has already happened: we look back and feel the path was fixed. That is a feeling, not proof. Fated is stronger than likely. Likely means you think it will happen. Fated means you think it must, because fate is in charge.
From the word’s history
From fate, from Latin fāta, plural of fātum, from fārī 'to speak'.
來自 fate；拉丁文 fātum 原意「說出的話」，即神所說定的命運。
組成from fate (the power that decides what happens) + -ed (makes an adjective: already decided by fate)
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
fatedadj/ˈfeɪtɪd/
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Foreordained, predetermined, established in advance by fate.
- This scheme was fated to be forgotten, at any rate in the form of the 1820 proposal.
- Kristi Noem[…] may have committed a class two misdemeanor offence when her fated dog Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehair pointer Noem deemed “untrainable” for hunting pheasant, killed a neighbor’s chickens.
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