predestine

1 “And the bottles come in here to be predestined in detail.”

2 Like the predestined elect in Calvin’s Geneva, Brooklyn’s rich think of their improved homes as an outward sign of inward virtue.

3 It seemed that his failure was predestined.

他的失败似乎是命中注定的。

4 Sitting on his haunches, the fox leaned back and clutched his fat, feather duster tail between his legs, the posture predestined for a cello player.

5 But even in this country, many still cling to the idea of fate—that belief that important outcomes are predestined and beyond our control.

6 “She is not a predestined hero; she’s just doing what she thinks is right.”

7 “This summer was just never predestined to be a record breaker,” Dergarabedian said.

8 Are all women, under all circumstances, predestined to behave in certain ways or perform certain functions?

9 By the time we’ve moved into accounts of young black people — children, in many cases — storming the streets, the chaos feels predestined.

10 And while there was no one moment when the son chose filmmaking for himself, that career seemed predestined.

11 One of the important themes of my book is that there was nothing predestined about the Toms River story.

12 Unlike Bruce Wayne, whose stories make him feel predestined to be Batman, not to mention a perfect specimen, Kane had a tortuous path full of many mistakes, much like the life of a real person.

13 As it turned out, my life didn't follow the predestined route I had imagined.

14 In a meeting that seems almost predestined, the pair are now sharing a stage in Thomas Bradshaw’s “The Seagull/Woodstock, NY,” a New Group production in previews at the Pershing Square Signature Center.

15 I knew that, according to many Christians, I was a descendant of Ham, who had been cursed, and that I was therefore predestined to be a slave.

16 our victory in the tournament was seemingly predestined

17 Wotan is trying to create one story — the perfect hero, the predestined lover, the redemption of the world — and the Nibelungs are trying to create another.

18 Whether those images felt shocking or grimly predestined might depend on which version of the war you’ve seen and believed.

19 It’s hard to deny that a Callas-Bellucci pairing feels like it was predestined.

20 “The Palace” is attempting to configure America perhaps not as a predestined fact but as a procession of unembellishable convergent realities—lenses over lenses over lenses.

1 预定

due scheduled intended projected predestined preordained preordainment schedule reservation predestination predetermination prearrangement preordination fix mean design book intend reserve arrange slate destine predetermine preordain prearrange predestinate foreordain certain foregone destined bespeak mark out for forward mounted reserved destination take order mark bill subscribe

2 预先确定

predetermine

3 预先决定

foregone

4 预先指定

preassigned prefix

5 命定

fate

6 命中注定

fatal predoom preordain be destined to born predestinate

7 注定

predestined preordained predeterminate preordainment predetermination preordination foreordination order appoint fate condemn doom decree ordain predetermine predestinate foreordain ticket preordain fated destined mean devoted devote