fate

運命、行く末

人や物が最後に迎える結果。特に悪い結果。

やさしい英語で： What happens to someone or something in the end, especially something bad.

• Nobody knows his fate.
• Both factories suffered the same fate.
• The court will decide the prisoners’ fate tomorrow.

使い方： the fate of someone/something (The fate of the missing ship remains unknown.)

類義語： outcome, destiny

よく使う表現： someone’s fate, suffer this fate, escape that fate

運命、宿命

人の人生に起こることを決めると信じられている力。

やさしい英語で： A power believed to control what happens in people’s lives.

• Do you believe in fate?
• She felt that fate had brought them together.
• We left the decision to fate and tossed a coin.

類義語： destiny

よく使う表現： believe in fate, trust fate, leave to fate

運命

人生の出来事を支配すると考えられている力。

やさしい英語で： A power believed to control what happens in life.

• Perhaps fate brought us together.
• She believed fate controlled her life.
• Would fate give him another chance?

類義語： destiny

よく使う表現： cruel fate, trust fate, fate intervenes

運命づける

運命の力によって、将来の出来事を必ず起こるものにする。

やさしい英語で： To make a future event certain to happen through the power of destiny.

• They were fated to fall in love.
• The king seemed fated to lose his crown.
• Was she fated to spend her life alone?

使い方： be fated to do something (They were fated to meet again.)

類義語： destine, predestine

よく使う表現： fate someone to, be fated to