fates

英 [feɪts]

美 [feɪts]

n.  命中注定的事(尤指坏事); 命运的安排; 命运; 天数; 定数; 天意
fate的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 命运;宿命;定数;天意
  Fateis a power that some people believe controls and decides everything that happens, in a way that cannot be prevented or changed. You can also refer tothe fates.
  1. I see no use quarrelling with fate.
     我看不出和命运抗争有什么用。
  2. ...the fickleness of fate...
     命运的无常
  3. It was just one of those times when you wonder whether the fates conspire against you.
     有些时候，你会怀疑是不是造化弄人，现在就是如此。
• N-COUNT (人或物的)命运，遭际
  A person's or thing'sfateis what happens to them.
  1. The Russian Parliament will hold a special session later this month to decide his fate...
     俄罗斯议会本月晚些时候将举行特别会议决定他的命运。
  2. He seems for a moment to be again holding the fate of the country in his hands...
     他似乎在一瞬间又一次将国家的命运握在了手中。
  3. The Casino, where she had often danced, had suffered a similar fate.
     她经常跳舞的赌场遭遇了相似的命运。
  4. ...the terrible fate awaiting humanity.
     等待人类的可怕命运
• PHRASE 注定要失败;在劫难逃
  If somethingsealsa person's or thing'sfate, it makes it certain that they will fail or that something unpleasant will happen to them.
  1. The call for a boycott could be enough to seal the fate of next week's general election...
     抵制选举的呼吁足以注定下周大选失败的命运。
  2. And yesterday the Zoo's fate was sealed, largely due to two months of ever-dwindling entrance figures.
     昨日，伦敦动物园面临着关闭的命运，主要因为两个月来游客数量持续下滑。
• totempt fate→ see:tempt

双语例句

• To our siblings, to our ancestors, to our fates, then we have peace of mind.
  我们的祖先，我们的命运表示认同，那么我们就拥有了思想的安宁。
• The fairy talesleave us powerless, putting our love lives into the hands of the Fates.
  这样的童话使得我们人类自身变得无能为力，而把我们的爱情生活交到了命运女神手中。
• Giles apologized and scolded the boy; but he felt that fates were against him.
  基尔斯于是表示道歉，又去骂了那个男孩。可是，他感到这完全是命运在和自己作对。
• He said you and I were relatives in former lives and that our fates are tied together.
  他说过你和我前生是亲戚，而且我们之间的命运息息相关。
• We spend a lot of time and money trying to manipulate our fates based on these beliefs.
  我们试图根据这些信念来操纵自己的命运，为此花费了大量的时间和金钱。
• All fates are arranged by the god.
  一切命运自有老天冥冥中安排。
• He affirms and praises god-man, considering goodness and love is the power of misery fates redemption.
  他肯定和赞扬“神人”，认为至善至爱才是人悲惨命运的拯救力量。
• There are no victims beloved, each species chooses their fate, and all fates dovetail with all others.
  这里没有蒙难者，至爱的人类，每个物种都选择自己的命运，而所有命运彼此吻合。
• That is the power to change peoples fates.
  这是一种能改变人类命运的力量。
• In time of aristocracy, people's fates are not in the hands of themselves.
  贵族统治时代人们的命运并不掌握在自己手中。