inevitable
/ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/ adjectif B1En français : inévitable
- Impossible to avoid or prevent. · We were going so fast that the collision was inevitable.
- Predictable or always happening. · My outburst met with the inevitable punishment.
Dans la bibliothèque
A FLEA thus questioned an Ox: “What ails you, that being so huge and strong, you submit to the wrongs you receive from men and slave for them day by day, while I, being so small a creature, mercilessly feed on their flesh and drink their blood without stint?” The Ox replied: “I do not wish to be ungrateful, for I am loved and well cared for by men, and they often pat my head and shoulders.” “Woe’s me!” said the flea; “this very patting which you like, whenever it happens to me, brings with it my inevitable destruction.”
Then she yielded to the inevitable and said tartly:
From the moment that I conceived the idea of the body being upon the roof, which surely was not a very abstruse one, all the rest was inevitable.
‘It is inevitable destruction.
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