[with obj.](一般作 be preordained)decide or determine (an outcome or course of action) beforehand 预先决定,预先规定;注定 you might think the company's success was preordained. 你可能认为公司的成功是命中注定的。 [as adj. preordained]a divinely preordained plan of creation. 上帝预定的创造计划。