fateful
adj. 重大的; 命中注定的; 决定性的; 预言性的
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.
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。
1. having momentous consequences; of decisive importance;
2. of ominous significance
3. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin;
4. controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined;
And now this fateful interview had come to a close.
这次命运尤关的会见此时已接近尾声.
His heart sank as he listened to the judge uttering the fateful words.
他听到法官字字千钧的话,顿时垂头丧气.
Whichever question that all fateful!
无论哪个问题都那么要命!
But the " fateful " garlic proved to be not so psychic after all.
然而那 “ 命运 ” 的大蒜头这次竟不灵验.
The dissolute Presidential guard who deserted his post that fateful night was named John Parker.
在杀害林肯的那个灾难性的夜晚,放荡不羁的总统卫兵擅离职守,他名叫约翰·帕克.