0 having an important and usually negative effect on the future -- 對未來有重大（負面）影響的
the fateful day of President Kennedy's assassination 甘迺迪總統遇刺的災難性的一天
He made the fateful decision to send in the troops. 他作出了派遣部隊這個影響重大的決定。
To the extent that the hearings have a fateful bearing on people's lives, then they can also be seen as drama.
Even during the fateful year 1953, the two alternatives can therefore be seen as operating more in tandem than against each other.
The category membership is not the fault of the individual; it is determined merely by the throw of the genetic dice or a 'fateful' act.
Indeed, this fateful day in the girl's life belonged as much to her family as to herself.
The procession through the streets was merely the last and fateful step.
Even before this turn from consensus and dissensus, before this turn against the hallowed textual ideology, the challenger's stance-behavior foreshadows the debate's fateful trajectory.
Whatever the reason, there certainly seems a reluctance, or inability, to accept the music as representative of the fateful encounter.
One fateful decision was made in the light of this perspective, and also in fulfillment of a project of sovereignty assertion by military expansion.
