fateful

英 ['fe?tf?l; -f(?)l] 美['fetfl]

低頻詞TEM8TOEFL暢通詞匯

fateful 決定命運(yùn)的，有重大影響的

來自fate, 命運(yùn)。

fateful (adj.): 1710s, "prophetic," from fate (n.) + -ful. Meaning "of momentous consequences" is from c. 1800. Related: Fatefully. Sometimes used by 18c.-19c. poets as if it meant "having the power to kill," which usually belongs to fatal. The broad and diverging senses of fate (n.) also yielded adjectives fated "doomed," also "set aside by fate;" fatiferous "deadly, mortal (1650s), from Latin fatifer "death-bringing;" fatific/fatifical (c. 1600) "having power to foretell," from Latin fatidicus "prophetic."

1. He gave a detailed account of what happened on the fateful night.: 他詳細(xì)描述了那個(gè)災(zāi)難性夜晚所發(fā)生的事。

2. But fateful forces beyond the band's control were to conspire against them.: 然而，樂隊(duì)無力控制的各種決定性力量將會(huì)對他們造成不利的影響。

3. She looked back now to that fateful day in December.: 她現(xiàn)在回顧十二月里那決定性的一天。

4. Seconds after uttering the fateful words'this is easy ', he crashed.: 說了 “ 這很容易 ” 這句預(yù)言性的話后幾秒鐘, 他的心臟就停止跳動(dòng).