By a tantalizing quirk of fate, the pair have been drawn to meet in the first round of the championship.

由于命运的捉弄，这对选手被抽中在锦标赛的第一轮相遇。

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Would a better fate have fallen to my lot?

我的命运会更好吗？

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They are digging their own graves, and they have no right to blame fate or other people.

自家掘坑自家埋，怨天尤人全是错误的。

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Many of the footballers, like Ronny Zondi, have lost family or friends to AIDS and are committed to saving others from this fate.

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But the nymphs in all of their sensuous beauty, with "flow'r-inwov'n tresses," they have to experience the same fate.

但是年轻女神很美丽，但头发被扯断了“,她们不得不经历同样的命运。

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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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Hezbollah, which is fighting alongside Assad's troops, appears to have linked its fate to the survival of the Syrian regime.

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Mr. GIULIANI: I believe that I'm going to have the same fate that the New York Giants had last week...

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Murrin claims to have escaped this fate by taking weakening stock prices as a sign of temporary weakness and going short crude oil.

FORBES: Short the West