不是你的错。这是命中注定的事。

It wasn't your fault. It was just one of those things.

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一种命中注定的意识控制着她。

A sense of fatality gripped her.

《牛津词典》

这不是命中注定的吗？

Was it not the fate intended thee?

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In other words, chance is already fated. The thing that stands for randomness in this book, the thing that looks like ordinary detail, has already been arranged to give you artistic pleasure.

换言之，机遇已经是命中注定的，这代表了,书中的那些随意安排，那些看起来普通的细节，其实已经据安排给大家一种美的享受。

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