Tra từ fate - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

fate [fate fates fated fating] BrE [feɪt] NAmE [feɪt] noun
1. countable the things, especially bad things, that will happen or have happened to sb/sth
•The fate of the three men is unknown.
•She sat outside, waiting to find out her fate.
•The court will decide our fate/fates.
•Each of the managers suffered the same fate.
•The government had abandoned the refugees to their fate.
•From that moment our fate was sealed (= our future was decided).
2. uncountable the power that is believed to control everything that happens and that cannot be stopped or changed
•Fate was kind to me that day.
•By a strange twist of fate, Andy and I were on the same plane.
more at tempt fate/providence at ↑tempt
Idiom: ↑fate worse than death

Word Origin:
late Middle English: from Italian fato or (later) from its source, Latin fatum ‘that which has been spoken’, from fari ‘speak’.

Example Bank:
•Anne accepted the cruel hand that fate had dealt her.
•Fate decreed that she would never reach America.
•Fate took a hand in the outcome of the championship.
•Fate took a hand in= influenced the outcome of the championship.
•Fate was kind to me.
•Fate was not smiling upon her today.
•For some reason fate conspired against them and everything they did was problematic.
•Fortunately, Robert was spared this cruel fate.
•Getting married seemed a fate worse than death.
•He believed that the universe was controlled by the whims of a cruel fate.
•He faces a grim fate if he is sent back to his own country.
•He had no desire to share the fate of his executed comrades.
•He had signed his confession and sealed his own fate.
•He secretly hoped that fate would intervene and save him having to meet her.
•He was content standing aside, letting fate take its course.
•He will learn his fate in court tomorrow.
•His brother met an altogether different fate.
•His fate rests in the hands of the judges.
•I have a great deal of trust and I leave everything to fate.
•Instead of just bemoaning your fate, why not do something to change it?
•It seemed a cruel twist of fate that the composer should have died so young.
•It would be tempting fate to say that we will definitely win the game.
•Jackson deserves a better fate than this.
•Little did she know what fate had in store for her.
•Obeying her parents' wishes for her life seemed a fate worse than death.
•Only weeks after her previous injury, fate struck again, leaving her unable to compete.
•Only weeks later fate struck again, leaving her unable to compete.
•Our fate is tied to yours.
•She broke her ankle before the big game, then suffered the same fate a month later.
•She faces an uncertain fate.
•She has taken steps to control her own fate.
•She managed to escape the fate of the other rebels.
•Such coincidences are almost enough to make one believe in fate.
•The condemned men were resigned to their fate.
•The convicts awaited their fate in prison.
•The fate of the African wild dog hangs in the balance.
•The jury held the fate of the accused in their hands.
•The new job had come at just the right time for him. Was it the hand of fate?
•The ultimate fate of the captured troops is unknown.
•They decided to kill themselves rather than suffer a worse fate at the hands of their enemy.
•They were warned of the dreadful fate that awaited them if ever they returned to their homes.
•They're worried about their political fate.
•This team's fate depends on how it performs today.
•Under-representation is the likely fate of small parties.
•What an unfortunate fate the gods had condemned her to.
•What had he done to deserve such a terrible fate?
•Will it change the fate of the company?
•Worst of all was the fate that befell the captured rebel general.
•the almost inevitable fate awaiting gorillas and tigers
•the prophet who predicts fate and can see the future
•the rights of a woman to choose the fate of her body
•By a strange twist of fate, Andy and I were on the same plane.
•Each of the managers suffered the same fate.
•From the moment the hijackers took over the plane, their fate was sealed.
•He had no idea what fate was in store for him.
•He suddenly started to rail against fate and all the things that had happened to him.
•She felt it would be tempting fate to try the difficult climb a second time.
•The court will decide our fate/fates.
•The fate of the ship's captain is unknown.
•The government had abandoned the refugees to their fate.