According to the passage, he is a man who is fighting against nature and fate.

根据短文可知，他是一个与自然和命运作斗争的人。

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Be yourself and fate will drive your future.

做你自己，命运将会垂青你。

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“Life and Fate” will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on September 18th-25th.

《生活与命运》将于9月18日至25日在英国广播公司电台4台播出。

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But like many people of the day, it was a practice to snip out little mementos of events, and this particular coat suffered that same fate, in that Alfonso Don would clip pieces away from the coat and give it to people who came to visit and to see the coat.

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Fate will permit no apocalypse before its time, before the necessary and painful steps that have to lead up to the Last Judgment.

命运在来之前不会允许人们去启示别人，必须要自己去经历必要而又痛苦的那几步,才能走向最终的审判。

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May no fate willfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away not to return.

别来个命运之神，故意曲解我,只成全我愿望的一半，把我卷了走。

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But besides the carnival and hocus-pocus, this book also considers deeper questions about life and fate.

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It's an ethical quandary and an economic one, about fairness and fate, about vanity and values.

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He is one of those men God and fate somehow lead to the fore in times of challenge.

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