| 释义 | fatalismfa‧tal‧is‧m /ˈfeɪtl-ɪzəm/ noun [uncountable]    the belief that there is nothing you can do to prevent events from happening → fate—fatalist noun [countable]A passive fatalism at the capriciousness and heavy-handedness of authority prevailed amongst the thirty-year men.Briefly optimistic at the start, it did not take much for the fatalism to set in.Malthus was burdened by a fatalism induced by fears of population growth and resource shortages.The quiet flatness of her voice was mirrored by the fatalism he saw in her eyes.This has all to be seen in the context of the profound fatalism about life itself.This is one aspect of our fatalism and paralysis.
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