destiny

将“destiny”与“dest”结合记忆，想象一个“de”的人的命运（destiny）被一个巨大的“-iny”力量所注定。这种方法通过将单词分解成更易记的部分，帮助记忆整个单词的含义。

destiny 命运

词源同destination, 目的的。用于神学名词命运。

destiny

destiny: [14] Etymologically, one’s destiny is that which has been firmly established or determined for one (as if by fate). The word comes from destinee, the Old French descendant of Latin dēstinātus. This was the past participle of dēstināre ‘make firm, establish’, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix dē- and *stanāre ‘fix’ (source also of English obstinate). This in turn was a derivative of stare ‘stand’, a relative of English stand. The Latin verb also gave English destine [14] and hence destination [15], whose current use comes from an earlier place of destination ‘place for which one is bound’.
=> destination, obstinate, stand

destiny (n.)

mid-14c., from Old French destinée (12c.) "purpose, intent, fate, destiny; that which is destined," noun use of fem. past participle of destiner, from Latin destinare "make firm, establish" (see destination). The sense is of "that which has been firmly established," as by fate.

1. It is my destiny one day to be king.

我命中注定有一天要成为国王。

2. Destiny has ordained that they are who they are.

命运已经决定了他们的性格为人。

3. He departed this world with a sense of having fulfilled his destiny.

他带着一种已完成使命的满足感离开了这个世界。

4. She had always been mistress of her own destiny.

她总是能够掌握自己的命运。

5. Is it destiny that brings people together, or is it accident?

人们的相遇是天意还是偶然？

【luck, lot, destiny, fortune, doom, fate】
这组词都有“命运”的意思，其区别是：
luck: 普通日常用词，指好的或坏的运气，尤多指好运气，有时也指成功或愉快的结局。
lot: 多指偶然的运气或终身遭受的不幸命运。
destiny: 普通用词，侧重预先注定的命运，对未来命运的美好憧憬。
fortune: 普通用词，指由机会或运气来决定的一种命运，如暗示一种比fate好的运气或一种愉快的未来。
doom: 指最终的，常常是灾难性或毁灭性的命运，隐含不可避免的意味。
fate: 较庄严用词，多指不幸的命运，暗示不可避免，令人畏惧和人的意志无法改变，宿命论色彩较浓。