fateful
adj. 重大的; 命中註定的; 決定性的; 預言性的
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.
這是一項將會讓政府垮臺的重大決定。
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.
這次命運尤關的會見此時已接近尾聲.
His heart sank as he listened to the judge uttering the fateful words.
他聽到法官字字千鈞的話,頓時垂頭喪氣.
Whichever question that all fateful!
無論哪個問題都那麼要命!
But the " fateful " garlic proved to be not so psychic after all.
然而那 “ 命運 ” 的大蒜頭這次竟不靈驗.
The dissolute Presidential guard who deserted his post that fateful night was named John Parker.
在殺害林肯的那個災難性的夜晚,放蕩不羈的總統衛兵擅離職守,他名叫約翰·帕克.