destiny

字辨

fate: 指支配人或物的神或超自然的力量,通常暗示其结果是不可避免或无法改变的,有时也暗示悲剧性的结果

It's her fate to be unhappy.

destiny: 可与fate通用,但着重在由超自然的力量预先注定的不可变易的事情,而且与fate不同的是可以指好的结果

For good or ill, that was his destiny.

doom: 指由fate所带来的不幸或可怕的结果

the doom of a merciless tyrant

fortune: 指某人将来的运气,通常指好运;与上面三字不同的是,此字并无深刻的感受

try one's fortune

词路径

• entity
• abstraction
• abstract entity
• psychological feature
• event
• happening
• occurrence
• occurrent
• natural event
• destiny
• fate

上位词

• causal agency
• causal agent
• cause
• condition
• happening
• natural event
• occurrence
• occurrent

下位词

• bad luck
• day of reckoning
• doom
• doomsday
• end of the world
• failure
• good fortune
• good luck
• ill luck
• inevitable
• karma
• kismat
• kismet
• luckiness
• misfortune
• predestination
• providence
• tough luck