predestination

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Predestination is a myth.
宿命論是一個(gè)謎團(tuán)。
We would also have to abandon free will—because witnessing part of our future history implies some amount of predestination.
同時(shí)也不得不放棄自由意願(yuàn)，因爲(wèi)能目睹我們未來(lái)的一部分歷史就意味著有一定數(shù)量的預(yù)先注定存在。
A closed timelike curve seems to imply predestination: We know what is going to happen to us in the future because we witnessed it in our past.
一個(gè)封閉的時(shí)間型曲線可能暗示著命運(yùn)注定：我們知道未來(lái)自己身上會(huì)發(fā)生什麼狀況，因爲(wèi)我們已經(jīng)在自己的過(guò)去目睹了這些情景。

And this belief that's called Calvinist predestination is really at the heart of mainstream English Puritanism at this point.
這種叫做加爾文宿命論的觀點(diǎn),與主流英國(guó)清教主義相一致。
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選

With its inexorable depiction of increasing marital woe, this film is the cinematic equivalent of predestination.
NEWYORKER: The Best Intentions
This predestination through casting allows Ms Holofcener to concentrate on her real interest, which is ethics.
ECONOMIST: Independent films
He first took on the French when he was 40, convinced that this was what he was born to do: Calvinists believe in predestination.
ECONOMIST: David McTaggart

the belief that people have no control over events because these things are controlled by God or by fate

If you believe in predestination, you believe that people have no control over events because everything has already been decided by a power such as God or fate.