一、详细释义：


n.

命运，天数，定数 [U]


例句：

She was a passive spectator of the operation of her fate.

在命运的主宰面前，她只能做一名消极的旁观者。


例句：

Fate had thrown them together。

命运把他们聚在一起了。


（人的）命运或未来 [C]


例句：

You are destined for a better fate.

你命中注定会有更好的福分。


死亡，毁灭 [C]


例句：

It will share the fate of its predecessor.

它将遭受与前者同样的命运。


例句：

The Titanic met her fate by crashing into a huge iceberg.

泰坦尼克号客轮因撞上一个大冰山而沉没。


二、词义辨析：


destiny,fate,lot,doom,luck,fortune

这些名词均有“命运”或“运气”之意。 destiny普通用词，侧重预先注定的命运，对未来命运的美好憧憬。 fate较庄严用词，多指不幸的命运，暗示不可避免，令人畏惧和人的意志无法改变，宿命论色彩较浓。 lot多指偶然的运气或终身遭受的不幸命运。 doom指最终的，常常是灾难性或毁灭性的命运，隐含不可避免的意味。 luck普通日常用词，指好的或坏的运气，尤多指好运气，有时也指成功或愉快的结局。 fortune普通用词，指由机会或运气来决定的一种命运，如暗示一种比fate好的运气或一种愉快的未来。


三、参考例句：


Your fate is sealed.

你死定了。


Fate had thrown them together。

命运把他们聚在一起了。


Fate had thrown them together.

命运把他们聚在一起了。


She wept her sad fate.

她为自己的悲惨命运而哀哭。


Fate has conspired against them.

命运成心跟他们作对。


His fate rests with his father.

他的命运掌握在他父亲的手中。


I don't believe in fate.

我不相信命运。


He should be fearless, bear his ineluctable fate with equanimity.

人应当无所畏惧，对不可避免的命运安之若泰。


It will share the fate of its predecessor.

它将遭受与前者同样的命运。


The historic battle changed the fate of two nations.

这一历史上著名的战役改变了两个民族的命运。