predetermination
/pree-di-tur-min/US // ˌpri dɪˈtɜr mɪn //UK // (ˌpriːdɪˈtɜːmɪn) //
预决算,预先确定,预测,预决断
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v.有主动词 verb
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pre·de·ter·mined, pre·de·ter·min·ing.
- : to settle or decide in advance: He had predetermined his answer to the offer.
- : to ordain in advance; predestine: She believed that God had predetermined her sorrow.
- : to direct or impel; influence strongly: His sympathy for the poor predetermined his choice of a career.
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Examples
But in her heart she was convinced of its predetermination by some power other than her own volition.
Let it be discussed; and, although there were symptoms of predetermination in some, the abolition of it must be carried.
Yet we use the terms "guidance," "predetermination," and so on, at the risk of being misunderstood.
The man who pays is the real enthusiast; he comes with a predetermination to be amused, and his spirit is exalted accordingly.
What effect this predetermination of character has had upon his artistic development shall be discussed in another place.
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