• n. 命運(yùn)，定數(shù)，天命
• n. (Destiny)人名；(英)德斯蒂尼，德斯蒂妮(女名)

詞源同destination, 目的的。用于神學(xué)名詞命運(yùn)。

destiny

destiny: [14] Etymologically, one’s destiny is that which has been firmly established or determined for one (as if by fate). The word comes from destinee, the Old French descendant of Latin dēstinātus. This was the past participle of dēstināre ‘make firm, establish’, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix dē- and *stanāre ‘fix’ (source also of English obstinate). This in turn was a derivative of stare ‘stand’, a relative of English stand. The Latin verb also gave English destine [14] and hence destination [15], whose current use comes from an earlier place of destination ‘place for which one is bound’.
=> destination, obstinate, stand

destiny (n.)

mid-14c., from Old French destinée (12c.) "purpose, intent, fate, destiny; that which is destined," noun use of fem. past participle of destiner, from Latin destinare "make firm, establish" (see destination). The sense is of "that which has been firmly established," as by fate.

1. It is my destiny one day to be king.

我命中注定有一天要成為國王。

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2. Destiny has ordained that they are who they are.

命運(yùn)已經(jīng)決定了他們的性格為人。

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3. He departed this world with a sense of having fulfilled his destiny.

他帶著一種已完成使命的滿足感離開了這個(gè)世界。

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4. She had always been mistress of her own destiny.

她總是能夠掌握自己的命運(yùn)。

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5. Is it destiny that brings people together, or is it accident?

人們的相遇是天意還是偶然？

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