【句子】Your marriage is doomed.【Desperate Housewives S02E04】

【发音】/jə(r)/ /ˈmær.ɪdʒ/ /ɪz/ /duːmd/

【发音技巧】marriage is连读；

【翻译】你的婚姻是注定要失败的。

【适用场合】

今天我们学习一下这个短语，

be doomed

“某件不太好的事情铁定会发生，而你也做不了什么去阻止”的意思；

If something is doomed to happen, or if you are doomed to a particular state, something unpleasant is certain to happen, and you can do nothing to prevent it.



eg: The plan was doomed to failure.

这个计划铁定是要失败的。



eg: The marriage was doomed from the start.

这段婚姻从一开始就注定失败。



eg: She felt she was doomed to work in an office all her life.

她觉得自己注定要在办公室里工作一辈子。



eg: He knew that if he lived, he would be doomed to spend the war as a prisoner.

他知道如果他活下来的话，他注定会以战俘的身份度过战争。



有同学可能会问了，为什么这个地方doom后面要加ed，

其实英语中doom可以当做一个及物动词去使用。

doom someone or something to something

to make someone or something certain to do or experience something unpleasant, or to make something bad certain to happen:

“注定让某个人或者某个事情有不愉快的经历”；“注定让某个不愉快的事情发生”

在英文中，既可以说be doomed to do sth. 也可以说be doomed to sth.；



eg: Are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past?

我们注定会重复过去的错误吗？



eg: Mounting debts doomed the factory to closure.

不断增长的债务使得这家工厂关门。



eg: Your insistence on including that rigid clause doomed the contract to failure.

你坚持要加那个硬性条款，就注定了这次合同签约失败。



eg: The invention of the train doomed the canals to extinction.

火车的发明注定了运河的灭亡。



【尝试翻译以下句子，并留言在文章留言区】

I used to pour time and energy into projects that were doomed from the start.