foreordained是什么意思？

foreordained

• v. <正>预先注定( foreordain的过去式和过去分词 )；

例句

• It was foreordained that the company would suffer a spectacular collapse. 这个公司注定要彻底垮台.
• In the light of Nixon's firm convictions, the outcome of this dispute was foreordained. 鉴于尼克松坚定的看法, 这场争论的结果是在预料之中的.
• God has foreordained that he die young. 上帝预定他早死.

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. established or prearranged unalterably;
  "his place in history was foreordained""a sense of predestinate inevitability about it""it seemed predestined since the beginning of the world"