| 单词 | something was meant to be/happen |
| 释义 | something was meant to be/happensomething was meant to be/happen CERTAINLY/DEFINITELYused to say that you think a situation was certain to happen and that no one could have prevented it 某事注定要发生 Dan left me after a month so I guess it just wasn’t meant to be. 丹一个月后就离开了我，所以我想我们注定不能在一起。 Examples from the Corpus something was meant to be/happen• Perhaps it's because none of this was meant to happen.• Imprinted with cell bars, the first Tricky Envelope was meant to be festooned with the Richard Nixon stamp.• Designed by Robert Von Hagge, it was meant to be hard.• She was meant to be illustrating a new book for children, a fantasy story by a well-known author.• Technically he was meant to be in bed.• The fit crew was meant to be Merrill Lynch.• Our protest was meant to be purely symbolic.• It was meant to be some kind of joke. → something was meant to be/happen at mean1(7) |
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