| 单词 | fateful |
| 释义 | fateful (feɪtfʊl ) adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] 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. Collocations: fateful moment That fateful moment has had far-reaching consequences. ST There came a fateful moment when history turned on a sixpence: should the border officials let this notorious revolutionary through? Times, Sunday Times It was a fateful moment for medical science. Times, Sunday Times But it was also a fateful moment of weakness. Times, Sunday Times After last week's horrific ambulance crash, the action rewinds to show the events leading up to that fateful moment. The Sun But that romance fell apart after one fateful night when she went to a party. The Sun Some have not been seen in public since that fateful night. The Sun The clothes she wore on the fateful night provided vital forensic evidence. The Sun On the fateful night the friends had gone out to eat and drink downtown. The Sun On the fateful night we took an initial straw vote in which each member had fifteen points to spread among the three. Christianity Today On the one hand, today’s public health landscape looks nothing like 1918—thanks in part to the continued reverberations of that fateful year. Smithsonian Mag But their sad demise goes all the way back to that fateful year of 2011. The Sun And comes the fateful year of 2003. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 有重大影响的 尤指产生负面结果的 Japanese: 運命を決する |
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