fateful
fateful 英 [ˈfeɪtfl] 美 [ˈfetfəl]
adj. 重大的；决定性的；宿命的
- A fateful moment is one that seems impossible to avoid. And when a fateful event occurs, it feels like it will have a big impact on your future — and usually not in a good way.
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- adj. 重大的；决定性的；宿命的
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1. But it was the most innocuous sounding of the ten principles—“It’s best to do one thing really, really well”—that would prove to be most fateful for the company.
但是这十条中最无伤大雅的一句是：“最好把一件事做的很好，很好。” 而事实证明这也是这个公司宿命的真实写照。
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2. The battle of the laboratories held fateful risks for us as well as the battles of the air, land, and sea, and we have now won the battle of the laboratories as we have won other battles.
实验室的战斗对我们来说，和陆海空的战斗具有同样重大的风险，如今我们在实验室赢得了与其他战斗同样的胜利。
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3. So today, the Middle East stands at a fateful crossroads.
所以今天，中东站在一个决定命运的十字路口。
- 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."
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