It was a fateful decision, one which was to break the Government.

那是一项重大的决定，一个将使政府垮台的决定。

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He gave a detailed account of what happened on the fateful night.

他对那个决定命运的夜晚所发生的事情做了一个详细的报道。

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So today, the Middle East stands at a fateful crossroads.

所以今天，中东站在一个决定命运的十字路口。

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"And on that fateful trip from New York to Hollywood, Walt came up with the idea of using a mouse for his next cartoon character.

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All right. So those of you that are raising your hand, and some aren't raising their hands but that's okay, those of you almost unanimously say that the Beethoven Fifth Symphony sounds somewhat ominous to us, somewhat fateful to us, and the Beethoven Ninth Symphony conversely has a different sort of feel to it.

你们其中的有些人举起了手,其他的没有举,其实都很好,你们当中的几乎一致认定,贝多芬第五交响乐,听起来是对宿命的激烈的抗争,然而贝多芬第九交响曲相反的,采用了另外的一种不同的方式

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There is even a fateful incident with a car, though in Mr Wolfe's latest novel it involves a misparking not a misturning.

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Some posts even mention flights they took over ten years ago and a fateful missed connection.

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But one fateful Sunday, a frantic pastry chef at the Tropicana Hotel called in a panic.

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