英语词汇
表示“命运”、 “运气”的名词
嘉中
fate、destiny、kismet 这三个词可表示“命运”
fate“命运”，“宿命”，带有一定的迷信色彩，指预先就决定了的人的生死、成败、名数。这
种命运通常是人们无法控制或改变的。
例句：
He expected to become a doctor, but thefatedecided otherwise.
他希望成为一名医生, 但命运他决定他不成。
She wondered whatfatehad in store for her next.
她不知道以后等待她的将是什么命运。
For years they had hoped a child of their own, butfateseemed against them, so they had
to adopt a boy.
多年来他们一直希望有一个自己的孩子,但是命运似乎与他们作对, 因此他们不得不领养一个男孩。
They were not to know that two years later, a similarfatewould be visited upon them.
他们不知道两年后，同样的命运也会降临到他们身上。
Fatebrings us together but life parts us temporarily, like the moon and the stars,apart
but staying together always.
命运让我们相识相知，生活又使我们相分相离，就像月亮和星星，遥远而又永远在一起！
destiny“命运”，指可由自己或他人掌握的命运, 尤指未来的命运。
例句:
He wants to be in control of his owndestiny.
他想掌握自己的命运。
I come from a rural family and expect to change my owndestinywith my efforts.
我来自农村家庭，期望通过努力能改变自己的命运。
We must ever maintain the principle that the people of all countries have the right to
decide their owndestiny.
我们必当永远维护这项原则，各国人民有权决定自己的命运。
Destinydetermines who comes into our lives but it's the heart that decides who stays
inside.
命运决定谁会进入我们的生活，但内心决定谁会留在我们的生活中。
Ourdestinyoffers not the cup of despair ,but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize。
not in fear, but in gladness.
命运给予我们的不是失望的苦酒，而是机会之杯。因此，让我们无所畏惧，满怀喜悦地去把握它
吧！
kismet命运，天命；侧重指命中注定 。
例句：
Maybe it's mykismet, the punishment of my puerility.
也许这是我的命运，是对我幼稚的惩罚。
But I do know you’ll work your entire life to be worthy of all thatkismethas given you.
但我知道，你会努力一生，才配得上命运赐予你的一切。
In my reading, two ladies' story touch my heart. Theirkismetis so similar.
阅读中，两位女士的故事触动了我的心, 他们的命运如此相似。
It must have beenkismet. A few months after accepting the commission, she learned she
would be having a baby.
这一定是命中注定的。接受委托几个月后，她得知自己要有孩子了。
Though much of her career was carved out through steely determination, Ms. Stafford's
encounter with Einstein waskismet.
尽管斯塔福德的大部分职业生涯都是靠钢铁般的决心成就的，但她与爱因斯坦的相遇却是命中注定
的。
luck、fortune、doom这三个词可表示“运气”。
luck口语用词，泛指运气，可指一时遇到的好运气或坏运气。
例句:
I wish you goodluckon the exams next week.
我祝你下周的考试好运。
What a badluckwe had! I lost the game at the last round.
我们运气糟透了。到最后一轮我输掉了比赛。
You may go and try yourluck,he may be at home.
你可以去碰碰运气，他也许在家。
Asluckwould have it, a doctor happened to be there when she fainted.
她晕倒时凑巧旁边有一个医生。
See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll havegood luck; see a pin and let it lie,bad luck
you'll have all day.
看见一根针，捡起来，一整天都有好运气;看到一根别针就不要管它，你会倒霉一整天。
fortune“命运”、“好运”，介于fate 和luck之间，可指好的命运，也可指好“运气”。
例句：
Butfortunesmiles on those persons who know how to exploit a good opportunity.
但是运气会对懂得利用一个良好的机会的人微笑。
By a stroke offortune, he won the competition.
他靠运气在竞赛中获胜。
Every man is the master of his ownfortune.
每个人都是自己命运的主宰。
Fortuneknocks once at least at every man’s door.
幸运之神至少会敲响每个人一次的门。
Those who look into practical life will find thatfortuneis usually on the side of the
industrious.
那些观察实际生活的人会发现运气通常支持勤劳的人。
Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of goodfortunethat seldom
happen, as by little advantages that occur every day. ——Benjamin Franklin
与其说人类的幸福来自偶尔发生的鸿运，不如说来自每天都有的小实惠。 ——本杰明·富兰克林
doom“厄运”，指最终遭到悲惨或灾难的结局。
例句：
Once they decided to leave, thedoomwas inevitable.
一旦他们决定要离开就注定会有恶运。
At that time little did he know that his wrong decision would invited hisdoom.
那时他丝毫也不知道他的错误决定会招来厄运。
Despite the obvious setbacks, it is not alldoomand gloom for the England team.
尽管遭遇了明显的挫折，但对英格兰队来说，并不是一切都是厄运。
I promised myself I'd defy all the prophets ofdoomand battle back to fitness.
我向自己保证，我要推翻所有的厄运预言，努力恢复健康。
Sometimes a shuddering terror struck him, as if he had been the author of thedoom.
有时候他害怕得心惊胆战，好像这次大祸是他一手造成的。