Is everything we do preordained?
我们做的事都是天意吗？
They seemed preordained to meet.
他们似乎命中注定要相逢。
1.〈正式〉注定的,天定的,命定的
1.<formal>something that is preordained is certain to happen and cannot be changed, especially because it has been decided by God
1.When listening to a client tell such a sad story, it is easy to believe that their situation was all but preordained.
听完客户讲述的这个令人沮丧的故事，很容易相信他的境遇是命中注定的。
2.We do not wish to pretend that current practice reflects some sort of timeless and perfectly logical outcome of preordained destiny.
我们不打算声称本书反映了某种永恒的、逻辑完美的成果，这是已经命中注定的成果。
3.His mother's brother did, too. Looking back on it, you might say the genes preordained that he would be a basketball maven.
回望一下，你或许会说可能就是这些基因的遗传就命中注定了科比天生就是块打篮球的好材料。
4.There was nothing preordained about Chicago being home to a program of that scale.
芝加哥成为了这么大规模项目所在地并不是命中注定的。
5.Yet, one of his key roles is to bat back ideas from China team that he thinks are preordained to fail in the unique market.
但他的关键职责之一，是驳回中国团队那些他认为在这个特殊市场注定会失败的想法。
6.First, the rise of China and, behind it, that of India, is not preordained (see below).
首先，中国以及印度的崛起并非命中注定（见下文）。
7.The Asian century is hardly as preordained as most seem to believe.
似乎多数人都以为，亚洲世纪肯定会到来，其实这很难说。
8.None of which could make any difference to the preordained result, but which confirmed the civic image of conscientious balance.
所有这些都不能对事先决定的结果造成什么影响，但这确定了尽职尽责的城市形象。
9.The world may be travelling in this or that direction now, but that does not mean the trajectory is preordained.
全球现在可能正朝着这个或那个方向前进，但这并不意味着道路是预先注定的。
10.There is nothing preordained about American decline.
美国并不一定会衰落。