中文翻译与英英解释

adj.
1.决定命运的；重大的，决定性的。
2.致命的，带来灾难的。
3.预言性的。
adv.
-ly ,-ness n.

controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events"
同义词：fatal,

having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev; "the fatal day of the election finally arrived"
同义词：fatal,

(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"
同义词：black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal,

ominously prophetic
同义词：foreboding, portentous,

例句与用法

This step involved many fateful consequences .
这一步骤带来了许多严重的后果。

The coming months will be fraught with fateful decisions .
未来数月将充满重大的决定。

She impressed me as so uncanny and fateful .
她给我的印象是那样的神秘怪异，那样的未卜先知。

It was a fateful day .
那是个不祥的日子。

For others elsewhere it was also a fateful day .
对其他地方的其它人来说，这也是一个命运悠关的日子。

It was fateful time for a great nation thus to bind to its hands .
对于一个这样束缚自己手脚的大国来说，这是个决定命运的时刻。

Roosevelt's growing weakness and death came at a fateful time in the history of the world .
罗斯福是在世界历史的关键时刻日益衰弱和逝世的。

It proved to be a fateful decision for the moderately conservative christian democrats .
这对于温和保守派基督教民主党来说，是一个致命的决定。

It was a wild, bare moor, little different from what it was on that fateful day in 1745 .
那是一片光秃秃的旷无人烟的荒野，同1745年它横遭浩劫那天相差无几。

Now at bordeaux came the fateful moment in the career of this ambitious, self-seeking, and capable admiral .
现在在波尔多，这位野心勃勃，自私自利的能干的海军上将一生事业的紧要关头到来了。