destiny

英 ['destɪnɪ] 美 ['dɛstəni]

解释

※ 提供单词"destiny"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

destiny 命运

词源同destination, 目的的。用于神学名词命运。

destiny: destiny: [14] Etymologically, one’s destiny is that which has been firmly established or determined for one (as if by fate). The word comes from destinee, the Old French descendant of Latin dēstinātus. This was the past participle of dēstināre ‘make firm, establish’, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix dē- and *stanāre ‘fix’ (source also of English obstinate). This in turn was a derivative of stare ‘stand’, a relative of English stand. The Latin verb also gave English destine [14] and hence destination [15], whose current use comes from an earlier place of destination ‘place for which one is bound’.
=> destination, obstinate, stand
destiny (n.): mid-14c., from Old French destinée (12c.) "purpose, intent, fate, destiny; that which is destined," noun use of fem. past participle of destiner, from Latin destinare "make firm, establish" (see destination). The sense is of "that which has been firmly established," as by fate.

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3. He departed this world with a sense of having fulfilled his destiny.: 他带着一种已完成使命的满足感离开了这个世界。

5. Is it destiny that brings people together, or is it accident?: 人们的相遇是天意还是偶然？