fateful是什么意思？

fateful

英[ˈfeɪtfl] 美[ˈfetfəl]

• adj. 重大的，命中注定的，决定性的，预言性的；

例句

• Seconds after uttering the fateful words ‘this is easy’, he crashed. 说了“这很容易”这句预言性的话后几秒钟，他的心脏就停止跳动。
• a fateful decision 重大的决定
• those killed in the hail of bullets fired on that fateful day 那个影响深远的日子里牺牲在枪林弹雨中的人
• Seconds after uttering the fateful words'this is easy ', he crashed. 说了 “ 这很容易 ” 这句预言性的话后几秒钟, 他的心脏就停止跳动.
• I relived that fateful day over and over in my mind. 我在思想上不断地重温着那决定不幸命运的日子.
• I see conundrums, dilemmas , quandaries , impasses, gnarly thickets of fateful possibility with no obvious way out. 眼看问题经纬万端,进退两难 、 入困境, 死路一条, 盘根错节的命定可能性,但找不到明显的出路.
• She looked back now to that fateful day in December. 她现在回顾十二月里那决定性的一天。
• He gave a detailed account of what happened on the fateful night. 他详细描述了那个灾难性夜晚所发生的事。
• ...the fateful decision which had doubtless been incubating in his mind for years. 无疑已在他头脑中酝酿了多年的重大决定
• It was a fateful decision, one which was to break the Government. 这是一项将会让政府垮台的重大决定。

英语四级真题

Decades ago, Kodak anticipated that digital photography would overtake film — and in fact, Kodak invented the first digital camera in 1975 — but in a fateful decision, the company chose to shelf its new discovery to focus on its traditional film business.
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• ADJ-GRADED
  (行为或时刻)有重大影响的(常指负面影响)，决定性的
  If an action or a time when something happened is described as fateful, it is considered to have an important, and often very bad, effect on future events.
  例句
  It was a fateful decision, one which was to break the Government. 这是一项将会让政府垮台的重大决定。

英汉词典释义

• adj.
  重大的,有很大影响的,引起灾难的,灾难性的
  those killed in the hail of bullets fired on that fateful day 那个影响深远的日子里牺牲在枪林弹雨中的人 a fateful decision 重大的决定 Seconds after uttering the fateful words ‘this is easy’, he crashed. 说了“这很容易”这句预言性的话后几秒钟，他的心脏就停止跳动。

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. having momentous consequences; of decisive importance;
  "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev"the fatal day of the election finally arrived"
  2. of ominous significance
  3. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin;
  "the stock market crashed on Black Friday""a calamitous defeat""the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign""such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin"it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur"a fateful error"
  4. controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined;
  "a fatal series of events"