Predestine
[priː'destɪn]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) foreordain or determine beforehand.
(verb.) foreordain by divine will or decree.
(verb.) decree or determine beforehand.
德怀特手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To decree beforehand; to foreordain; to predestinate.
黛拉校對
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Predetermine, PREDESTINATE.
比利校對
解釋/意思:
v.t. to destine or decree beforehand: to foreordain.—adj. Predestinā′rian pertaining to predestination.—n. one who holds the doctrine of predestination.—n. Predestinā′rianism.—v.t. Predes′tinate to determine beforehand: to preordain by an unchangeable purpose.—adj. fore-ordained: fated.—n. Predestinā′tion act of predestinating: (theol.) the doctrine that God has from all eternity unalterably fixed whatever is to happen esp. the eternal happiness or misery of men.—n. Predestinā′tor one who predestinates or foreordains: a predestinarian.
手打:梅格
例句/造句/用法:
- It was a country predestined, therefore, to a stormy history. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I told you everything was predestined! 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- It has destroyed the idea that learning is properly a monopoly of the few who are predestined by nature to govern social affairs. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- This idea of belonging to a chosen race predestined to pre-eminence was a very attractive one. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I've even got an envelope--you see how everything's predestined! 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
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