foreordained

1. ( theology) the doctrine ( usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity ( including the final salvation of mankind).
   （神学）认为上帝预先决定一切事件（包括人类最后的拯救）。
2. God has foreordained that he die young.
   上帝预定他早死。
3. It is foreordained that the company would suffer a spectacular collapse.
   这个公司注定要彻底垮台。
4. We not only do not believe that any are foreordained to evil by the power of God, but even state with utter abhorrence that if there are those who want to believe so evil a thing, they are anathema.
   我们不仅不认为有任何的邪恶力量来冤孽上帝就连国家彻底厌弃，如果有那些愿意相信这样一个邪恶的事，他们是诅咒。
5. The describing the fracture of carbonate reservoirs and technical research of numerical reservoir simulation has been the focus studied in carbonate reservoirs and foreordained affinity both at home and abroad all the time, restricts one of the key problems of the development in carbonate reservoirs too.
   碳酸盐岩油藏的裂缝描述和油藏数值模拟技术研究一直是国内外碳酸盐岩油藏研究的热点和前缘，也是制约碳酸盐岩油藏开发的关键问题之一。

adj

1. established or prearranged unalterably
   1. his place in history was foreordained
   2. a sense of predestinate inevitability about it
   3. it seemed predestined since the beginning of the world

   Synonym:    predestinatepredestined