1670s as a philosophical doctrine that all things are determined by fate, from fatal + -ism. Meaning "disposition to accept all conditions and events as inevitable" is from 1734.
双语例句
1. There's a certain mood of fatalism now among the radicals.
现在激进分子中间无疑弥漫着一种宿命情绪。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Do some oriental philosophies lean towards fatalism?
有些东方的哲学倾向于宿命论 吗 ?
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. The historicist view of social development does not imply fatalism.
