天命

プログレッシブ和英中辞典(第4版)

てんめい【天命】

⇒うんめい（運命）

❶〔運命〕

今回の不幸を彼は天命とあきらめた
He accepted his recent misfortune as his destiny [fate].

天命とあきらめるのはまだ早い
It is still too early 「to resign ourselves to fate [to call it fate and give up].

人事を尽くして天命を待つべきです
We must do our best and leave the rest to Providence.

❷〔寿命〕

彼は天命が尽きたのを知った
He knew he had come 「to his journey's end [to the end of his life].

出典　小学館「プログレッシブ和英中辞典(第4版)」