- [countable]
the things, especially bad things, that will happen or have happened to somebody/something 命中注定的事（尤指坏事）；命运的安排 The fate of the three men is unknown. 这三个人命运未卜。 She sat outside, waiting to find out her fate. 她坐在外面，等待命运对她作出的安排。 The court will decide our fate/fates. 法庭将决定我们的命运。 Each of the managers suffered the same fate. 每一个经理命运都是如此。 The government had abandoned the refugees to their fate. 政府抛弃了难民，让他们听天由命。 From that moment our fate was sealed (= our future was decided). 从那时起我们的命运就已经注定了。
Extra ExamplesHe faces a grim fate if he is sent back to his own country. 如果他被遣送回国，他的命运将会很悲惨。 He had no desire to share the fate of his executed comrades. 他不想遭受与他那些被处决的同志同样的命运。 He had signed his confession and sealed his own fate. 他在自己的供状上签了字，也就决定了自己的命运。 He will learn his fate in court tomorrow. 明天到了法庭他就会知道自己的命运。 His brother met an altogether different fate. 他哥哥的命运截然不同。 His fate rests in the hands of the judges. 他的命运掌握在法官们的手中。 Instead of just bemoaning your fate, why not do something to change it? 与其悲叹自己的命运，何不行动起来去改变它呢？ Jackson deserves a better fate than this. 杰克逊的命运应该比这样好。 Our fate is tied to yours. 我们的命运和你们的紧密相连。 She broke her ankle before the big game, then suffered the same fate a month later. 大赛之前她弄伤了脚踝，一个月后她又遇到了同样的不幸。 She faces an uncertain fate. 她面临着一个不确切的命运。 She has taken steps to control her own fate. 她已采取措施以掌控自己的命运。 She managed to escape the fate of the other rebels. 她总算逃过了其他造反者的厄运。 The condemned men were resigned to their fate. 被判刑的人只好接受自己的命运。 The convicts awaited their fate in prison. 已决犯在狱中等待着自己的命运。 The fate of the African wild dog hangs in the balance. 非洲野狗的命运还是个未知数。 The jury held the fate of the accused in their hands. 陪审团掌握着被告的命运。 The ultimate fate of the captured troops is unknown. 没有人知道被俘部队的最终命运。 They decided to kill themselves rather than suffer a worse fate at the hands of their enemy. 他们决定宁愿自杀也不愿落在敌人的手里，那样命运会更惨。 They were warned of the dreadful fate that awaited them if ever they returned to their homes. 他们受到警告：如果回家就会面临可怕的命运。 They're worried about their political fate. 他们担心自己的政治结局。 This team's fate depends on how it performs today. 该队的命运取决于它今天在比赛中的表现。 Under-representation is the likely fate of small parties. 得不到足够的代表很可能是小党派的命运。 What an unfortunate fate the gods had condemned her to. 众神加诸她的是多么不幸的命运啊。 What had he done to deserve such a terrible fate? 他到底做了什么，竟然遭受这样悲惨的命运？ Will it change the fate of the company? 这会改变公司的命运吗？ Worst of all was the fate that befell the captured rebel general. 那个被俘的叛军将领命运最为悲惨。 the almost inevitable fate awaiting gorillas and tigers 等待大猩猩和老虎的几乎无法避免的命运 the rights of a woman to choose the fate of her body 女性选择自己身体命运的权利 From the moment the hijackers took over the plane, their fate was sealed. 从劫机者劫持飞机的那一刻起，他们的命运就已经注定了。 Fortunately, Robert was spared this cruel fate. 罗伯特有幸免遭这一残酷结局。 He had no idea what fate was in store for him. 他不知道等待他的将是什么样的命运。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- awful
- grim
- horrible
- …
- face
- meet
- suffer
- …
- await somebody/something
- be in store for somebody/something
- lie in store for somebody/something
- …
- leave your fate in somebody’s hands
- place your fate in somebody’s hands
- put your fate in somebody’s hands
- …
- [uncountable]
the power that is believed to control everything that happens and that cannot be stopped or changed 命运；天数；定数；天意 Fate was kind to me that day. 那天我很幸运。 By a strange twist of fate, Andy and I were on the same plane. 由于命运的奇特安排，我和安迪乘坐了同一架飞机。
Synonyms luckluck- chance
- coincidence
- accident
- fate
- destiny
- luck the force that causes good or bad things to happen to people:
This ring has always brought me good luck. 这戒指总是给我带来好运。
- chance the way that some things happen without any cause that you can see or understand:
The results could simply be due to chance. 这结果可能纯属意外。
- coincidence the fact of two things happening at the same time by chance, in a surprising way:
They met through a series of strange coincidences. 他们因一连串奇妙的巧合而相遇。
- accident something that happens unexpectedly and is not planned in advance:
Their early arrival was just an accident. 他们早到仅仅是偶然而已。
- fate the power that is believed to control everything that happens and that cannot be stopped or changed:
Fate decreed that she would never reach America. 命中注定她永远到不了美国。
- destiny the power that is believed to control events:
I believe there’s some force guiding us—call it God, destiny or fate. 我认为有某种力量在指引着我们，称之为上帝也罢，天意也罢，或是命运也罢。
fate or destiny? 用 fate 还是 destiny？ - by …luck/chance/coincidence/accident
- It’s no coincidence/accident that…
- pure/sheer luck/chance/coincidence/accident
- to believe in luck/coincidences/fate/destiny
Extra ExamplesTopics Religion and festivalsc1Anne accepted the cruel hand that fate had dealt her. 安妮接受了残酷的命运。 Fate decreed that she would never reach America. 命中注定她永远到不了美国。 Fate took a hand in (= influenced ) the outcome of the championship. 冠军争夺赛的最终结果系天命所归。 Fate was not smiling upon her today. 她今天运气不好。 For some reason fate conspired against them and everything they did was problematic. 不知为什么，他们时运不济，做什么事都困难重重。 He believed that the universe was controlled by the whims of a cruel fate. 他相信宇宙是由变幻莫测而残酷的宿命主宰的。 He secretly hoped that fate would intervene and save him having to meet her. 他暗自希望老天帮忙，别让他碰见她。 He was content standing aside, letting fate take its course. 他甘愿置身事外，一切听天由命。 I have a great deal of trust and I leave everything to fate. 我很有信心，一切听天由命吧。 It seemed a cruel twist of fate that the composer should have died so young. 这位作曲家英年早逝似乎是残酷的宿命。 Little did she know what fate had in store for her. 她几乎不知道等待她的命运是什么。 Only weeks later fate struck again, leaving her unable to compete. 仅仅几周后，她再次遭受命运打击，不能参加比赛。 Such coincidences are almost enough to make one believe in fate. 这样的巧合几乎足以让人相信命运。 The new job had come at just the right time for him. Was it the hand of fate? 这份新工作对他来说来得正是时候，是命运的安排吗？ the prophet who predicts fate and can see the future 能预测命运、预知将来的预言家 He suddenly started to rail against fate and all the things that had happened to him. 他突然开始抱怨命运和发生在他身上的所有事情。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- cruel
- kind
- believe in
- tempt
- leave something to
- …
- decide something
- decree something
- intervene
- …
- an accident of fate
- a turn of fate
- a twist of fate
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Word Originlate Middle English: from Italian fato or (later) from its source, Latin fatum ‘that which has been spoken’, from fari ‘speak’.
Idioms
a fate worse than death
- (often humorous)
a terrible thing that could happen （可能发生的）极可怕的事 At the last minute the hero saves her from a fate worse than death. 在最后一刻，英雄将她从比死亡更糟糕的命运中拯救出来。
Extra ExamplesGetting married seemed a fate worse than death. 结婚似乎比死还要难受。 Obeying her parents' wishes for her life seemed a fate worse than death. 她一辈子都听从父母的安排，真还不如死了呢。
tempt fate/providence
to do something too confidently in a way that might mean that your good luck will come to an end 玩命；冒险；鲁莽 She felt it would be tempting fate to try the difficult climb a second time. 她觉得再次尝试这种高难度的攀岩就如同玩儿命了。 It would be tempting fate to say that we will definitely win the game. 要说我们肯定会赢得这场比赛，还真有点儿冒险。