| 词组 | predestine |
| 释义 | predestine Predestine is often followed by the preposition to: • ... for reasons which we cannot fathom, God predestines some to eternal life —Kenneth Scott Latourette, A History of Christianity, 1953 • Who would expect a godfather to give a child a name that would predestine it to become a cruel person? —Kurt Lewent, Modern Language Notes, March 1957 • Television is so beset by "new ideas"—generally predestined to disappear within weeks —Irving Kolodin, Saturday Rev., 1 Nov. 1975 Predestine may also be used with for: • ... adherence to socialist principles seemed to predestine him for a leading position in communist Hungary —Times Literary Supp., 18 Dec. 1969 • ... to push the working class into the action for which history had predestined it —Alfred G. Meyer, Marxism Since the Communist Manifesto, 1961 |
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