mindmap root((命运)) fate implies an inevitable and sometimes adverse outcome: the ~ of mariners remains unknown. destiny implies something foreordained and suggests a great or noble course or end: our country's ~. lot suggests a distribution by fate or destiny: it was her ~ to die childless. portion implies the proportioning of good and evil: the ~ that has been meted out to me. doom distinctly stresses finality and implies a grim and calamitous fate: if the rebellion fails, our ~ is certain.