His work was destined never to succeed. 他的工作注定永远不会成功。
destined
[ adj ]
headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students'
<adj.all> children bound for school a flight destined for New York
(usually followed by `to') governed by fate
<adj.all> bound to happen an old house destined to be demolished he is destined to be famous
Destine \Des"tine\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Destined}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Destining}.] [F. destiner, L. destinare; de + the root of stare to stand. See {Stand}, and cf. {Obstinate}.] To determine the future condition or application of; to set apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by destiny or by an authoritative decree; to doom; to ordain or preordain; to appoint; -- often with the remoter object preceded by to or for.
We are decreed, Reserved, and destined to eternal woe. --Milton.
Till the loathsome opposite Of all my heart had destined, did obtain. --Tennyson.
Not enjoyment and not sorrow Is our destined end or way. --Longfellow.
Syn: To design; mark out; determine; allot; choose; intend; devote; consecrate; doom.
"SDI is destined to be no more than a research program," said John Steinbruner, director of foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution, a liberal think tank.
The FAA said baggage destined for the United States aboard U.S. carriers will be given first priority for the London machine.
The Customs Service detained a Kuwaiti container ship and was examining the cargo to see if anything was destined for Iraq, officials said today.
Many major charities have the reputation of imposing on poor communities massive 'improvement' schemes that may be alien to local culture and therefore destined for failure.
But forms destined for people who have their mail sent to box numbers went out without the numbers, and the Postal Service was unable to deliver them, census officials said.
On June 1, the number of hogs kept for breeding was 3 percent below a year ago, while market hogs _ those destined for slaughter _ were down only 1 percent.
The net result is that the market is stuck." But Mr. Robbins is betting that the deadlock will soon be broken and that stocks are destined to head higher.
Nevertheless, some observers say, if a recession is destined to occur, it would be very much in keeping with past patterns if it were to sneak in unnoticed and take a firm hold several months before its presence is officially detected.
The 3.85m sq ft project on the sparsely populated east bank of the Danube is destined to become Vienna's second city centre.
In such a suit, anyone damaged when a leveraged buy-out goes bad can bring suit on the grounds that the buy-out was designed or destined to render the resulting company insolvent.
Vandenberg said about 15 percent of the $1.25 billion settlement covered refined product price violations, with the money destined to go into a fund to repay injured parties.
The report did not say whether the heroin was sold to Chinese or was destined for the international market.
As neither Railtrack nor the government feel like paying that, Britain seems destined to more commuting nightmares.
Coleman aides, meantime, claimed that 20,000 pieces of campaign mail destined for the 10th congressional District in northern Virginia were not delivered.
The British Library has no apparent civic or urban qualities and seems destined to be one of the biggest architectural disappointments of the century.
The man destined to become Slovakia's first president had been Alexander Dubcek, the communist party leader whose Prague Spring reforms led to the Warsaw Pact invasion in 1968.
At the other extreme, Bulgaria and Romania, despite recent and enormous change, start from so far back that they are destined to remain laggards.
It has two main sites - one in Beijing and the other in Shandong, for which the Californian mill is destined - and has introduced fairly modern blast furnaces from Belgium.
He seemed destined for a teaching career until he went to Paris in 1926.
Paying people to dig up coal that is destined for ever growing stocks would be just as foolish.
The Chinese had blocked cargo destined for the US from being loaded onto Evergreen planes in contravention of a bilateral treaty.
With as much as 70 per cent of production now destined for export, the company is earning handsome profits.
But it is already causing considerable confusion with confidential papers from government destined for the respective Tecs ending up on the wrong desks.
The National Assembly on Thursday also approved legislation banning the receipt of any type of assistance approved by the U.S. Congress and destined for opposition groups, the Roman Catholic church, labor unions and individuals.
The budget is supported by a series of tax increases on corporations, cigarette smokers and personal investors, increases in court fees and traffic fines and the use of lottery surpluses destined for cities and towns.
Of that, Y10,509bn will be so-called construction bonds, destined for public works only - to which the ministry has no objection - with the rest in deficit bonds.
And in a series of meetings around the state, he demonstrated a political repertoire he's destined to employ in the thicket inside the Capitol.
West Germany's Agriculture Ministry said in Bonn that it feared British beef normally destined for France might be rerouted to West Germany.
Palladin was one of 34 witnesses Tuesday at a House Agriculture subcommittee hearing in a debate over whether calves destined to become cuts of milk-fed veal ought to spend their short lives in a freer state consuming more than just liquid.
Election day is now a short 4 1/2 weeks away and the country is destined to live it with Texans on its mind. George Bush, by adoption, and Ross Perot, by birth, claim the Lone Star state as home.