fateful
['feɪt.fəl] adjective [before noun]
■having an important and usually negative effect on the future 对未来有重大（负面）影响的•the fateful day of President Kennedy's assassination甘乃迪总统遇刺的灾难性的一天 •He made the fateful decision to send in the troops.他作出了派遣部队这个影响重大的决定。 |