1predicative (of a person's future) regarded as developing as though according to a pre-existing plan.

她看得出来他是注定要做大事的。

他们是注定要成为外交官的。

1. 1.1destined to Certain to meet (a particular fate)
   注定（遭受一定命运）的
   the Act seems destined to failure

   这个法案似乎注定要失败。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • But the steel-fixer was destined not to win a medal.
   • Now the project is destined to fail unless more women can be encouraged to take part.
   • "It was supposed to be objective, but it was a project destined to failure, " he explains.
   • Thus was imposed on nationalist people an undemocratic arrangement destined never to yield a nationalist majority for perhaps hundreds of years.
   • The microphone is, of course, not destined to live up to its promise.
   • These were but a few of the ships that left New Ross with thousands of people, some of whom were destined never to see the Land of Hope and Glory which they had dreamed about.
   • But extreme in loco parentis protection of legal adults from their own stupid decisions is a sick and dangerous idea, and one that's destined not just to fail but to backfire.
   • Log Cabin Republicans' bid for a " unity plank " in the Republican platform appears destined to fail.
   • And of the targets set by the Government in 2000, three out of four currently looked destined to failure.
   • However, I suspect that we were destined never to beat Gloucester in the Powergen Final at Twickenham, so the result has little long term significance.
   • I am destined never to see this film; either version.
   • The F - 1 thing, I feel that it was a program destined to fail.
   • They would probably have been even spicier but for the decision to seed last year's semi finalists, and so for another while longer the big guns are destined not to cross paths.
   • And we are only destined, Matt Lauer said, to grow more numerous.
   • They were destined, I am sure, to be eaten in the hotels around the Islands.
   • Then it was a bitterly divided, gurning sort of town, uncertain about its cultural future, destined apparently to cede ground to the self-confidently expanding Glasgow, City of Culture 1990.
   • There is something in the appropriations themselves that tells how the processes they ideologically represent and foreclose were, if not destined, then likely to end up precisely here.
   • If ever a game looked destined to end - this was it.
   • To use words with great resonance in the field, disability history seems destined to remain a side show.
   • Conversely, it's also why Marlon Brando, who had a phenomenal cultural impact in his prime, was destined never to make it into permanent cult status.
2. 1.2destined for Intended for or travelling towards (a particular place)
   预定要去；前往（某一地点）的
   the shipment of illegal drugs destined for American and European markets

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   • Cartloads of treasures were brought to the surface, destined for the art collection of the King of Naples.
   • Over the next 16 years, the museum saved 16 aircraft otherwise destined for fire dumps.
   • At full length he diverted a scorcher destined for the top corner over the bar.
   • A member of staff confirmed that any bags of tin cans left anywhere other than in the skip would be destined for landfill.
   • The money otherwise destined for the government is diverted instead to the tax collectors' pockets.
   • However, an embryo otherwise destined for the incinerator being put to good use, denies the uniqueness of humanity.
   • Fully 23 per cent of students this year failed the test, including over half of those in the applied stream destined not for university but for trade schools and apprenticeships.
   • It was destined, the FBI believe, for either the presidential retreat at Camp David, an FBI facility or the CIA headquarters at Langley, Virginia.
   • The new owners did not realise the importance of the statue which was covered in dust and was destined for the scrapheap.
   • He may well intend a decent slice of the cash destined for Anfield to be drawn, shamelessly, from public funds.
   • Lots of things are still grown here although they are now destined for markets all round the world.
   • While this car is destined only for Europe, there would likely be a place for it in the U.S. market.
   • But campaigners claim that exempting businesses from the law has given spammers justification to claim their spam is destined solely for business inboxes.
   • While the goal-bound effort took a deflection it was always destined for the back of the net.
   • We firmly believe the recovered drugs were destined for other dealers and ultimately the streets of the town.
   • The chicken fillets involved in last year's investigation and the current study were destined mainly for the takeaway and restaurant sector of the Irish market.
   • The letters were destined for homes in Templars Firs, Dunnington Road and Glenville Road.
   • He would have been destined for a residential setting, absolutely no doubt about that.
   • Finan & Co's Robert Finan said he was unable to give any details of the buyer, or the country for which the murals were destined.
   • A bomb seemingly destined for the old Jewish cemetery appeared to have gone off early in a nearby street.

   Synonyms

   heading, bound, en route, scheduled

   directed to, routed to

   intended, meant, designed, set

   set apart, designated, appointed, allotted, booked, reserved
3. 1.3attributive Preordained.
   命中注定的，预先注定的
   your heroine will be united with her destined mate

   你的女主人公将要与她命中注定的伴侣结合。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The elves had long ago sworn protection of the royal house for future safety of its destined hero.
   • The electoral battle has increasingly been between a Republican party machine determined to achieve its destined realignment, and a Democratic party determined to resist.
   • But we quickly discover our emotional focus within the imaginative Geruthe, destined bride of Horwendil.
   • To regain the lost glory and vigour, prosperity and happiness, to fulfil our destined role of spreading real joy and spirituality in the whole human race, let us sing with the Rishis of Rig Veda.
   • Haskell, like Fobes, never married, yet was a firm believer that education for women should prepare them for their destined role as wives and mothers.
   • I imagine that if you were allowed to stray from the destined path you might miss out on some critical objective points, but I thought it was almost a little too linear.
   • And yet the delay seemed as much as anything else tied to making it as difficult as possible for Martin, long regarded as his destined successor, to claim the position.
   • What if a destined couple breaks up or finally gets together?
   • Facing the south, in one hand he holds the ankus to guide his black mount; the other grips the whip with which he draws you at the destined moment to the other world.
   • And so my destined soul mate finally walks the earth.

   Synonyms

   fated, ordained, preordained, foreordained, predestined, predetermined, certain

   sure, bound, assured, guaranteed, very likely

   doomed, foredoomed, meant

   written in the cards, in the wind/air

   British informal nailed on