"But why punish me?" she protested. "Do I want the war? Do I want to free Cuba? I want YOU, and if you go, you are the one who is sure to be killed. You are so big--and so brave, and you will be rushing in wherever the fighting is, and then--then you will die." She raised her eyes and looked at him as though seeing him from a great distance. "And," she added fatefully, "I will die, too, or maybe I will have to live, to live without you for years, for many miserable years."英文原著 · 《A Charmed Life》
She was as silent as her schoolboy brother. Seemingly a prey to the fateful maiden meditations which baffle a father's penetration and even a mother's sagacity, it was impossible to be certain whether it was the lamplight that cast those shadows that flitted over her face like thin clouds over a bright sky, or whether they were passing shades of secret and painful thoughts.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
Gaud, who was now the wife of an Icelander, was much surprised to find herself among them all, and brought thither for the same fateful purpose. Her position seemed to have become so intensified within the last few days, that she had barely had time to realize things as they were; gliding irresistibly down an incline, she had arrived at this inexorable conclusion that she must bear up for the present, and do as the others did, who were accustomed to it.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
Betty stood before him transformed; all signs of weariness had vanished; her eyes shone with a fateful resolve; her white and eager face was surpassingly beautiful with its light of hope, of prayer, of heroism. "Let me go, brother. You know I can run, and oh! I will fly today. Every moment is precious. Who knows? Perhaps Capt. Boggs is already near at hand with help.英文原著 · 《Betty Zane》
About four o'clock in the afternoon another of those marine monsters, not very familiar in those waters, hove in sight, following the fateful ~Idalia~--a graceful steam yacht, painted a light buff, clean-cut as a steel engraving. The beautiful vessel hovered off shore, see-sawing the waves as lightly as a duck in a rain barrel. A swift boat manned by a crew in uniform came ashore, and a stocky- built man leaped to the sands.英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
With melted snow water, a bar of yellow soap, and one leg of an old pair of drawers, he scrubbed on his knees the floor on his side of the dead line, and tried not to notice Lovin Child. He failed only because Lovin Child refused to be ignored, but insisted upon occupying the immediate foreground and in helping --much as he had helped Marie pack her suit case one fateful afternoon not so long before.英文原著 · 《Cabin Fever》
It seems to me it wasn't only the meter that was broken that fateful afternoon.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
And he was good -- real good -- until that fateful day he tried to jump over a motorcycle in a school bus.美剧 · 《Modern Family》