This man trusted fate.ī: I met my wife completely by accident. Many people trust fate when looking for their life partner, their soul mate. But by a terrible twist of fate, the great ship hit a huge block of ice in the ocean and quickly sank.Ī twist of fate does not always mean something bad is meant to happen. No one thought for a moment that its fate would be to lie at the bottom of the ocean. For instance, the Titanic started its ill-fated journey with much celebration and excitement. When something goes wrong, we often say it was ill-fated, or doomed from the very start. But more than that – the outcome was meant, or fated, to happen. When we say something is a twist of fate, we mean something strange or unexpected has happened. Her fate could have much different.įate can also change quickly and send your life in a direction you did not plan. A fishing boat rescued her the next morning. We warned her that she would not make it. While on vacation in Thailand I met a woman who tempted fate by swimming around a rocky coastline at night. That extreme confidence may cause something unpleasant to happen. Or, it means to be too sure about something. To tempt fate means to do something that involves a risk. The Merriam-Webster dictionary says fate is a “power that is believed to control what happens in the future.” In fact, fate is so powerful that people are warned not to tempt fate. When he did that, he sealed his own fate. And for him, prison is a fate worse than death.ī: Well, if he would rather die than go to prison, he should not have stolen that money from his investors. Sometimes the result is even a fate worse than death, such as in this example:Ī: He totally destroyed his business and now he’s going to jail. When we say sealed one’s fate we mean a person has done something that has guaranteed a certain end result - usually a bad one.
Fate, to describe it simply, means that something is meant to be.įate is a word that has weight. Now, that would be fate.įate is a word that can be hard to understand. Maybe just this morning you said to someone, “You know, I really wish VOA Learning English would do a show on the word ‘fate.’” And here we are. It is simply time for Words and Their Stories. Is it fate that brings us together today?
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