ordain
音标：
/ɔː'deɪn/
英英释义：
①When someone is ordained, they are made a member of the clergy in a religious ceremony.【v.授予…圣职;任命…为神职人员】
②If some authority or power ordains something, they decide that it should happen or be in existence.【v.规定；决定；主宰】
例句：
①He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1982.
他于1982年被任命为天主教司铎。
②He ordained his own priests, and threatened to ordain bishops.
他自行任命了牧师，还扬言要任命主教。
③Destiny has ordained that they are who they are.
命运已经决定了他们的性格为人。
《经济学人》一篇关于三孩政策的文章 A third child in the world 也出现了这个表达：
what has been cannot be undone
覆水难收
英文释义：
If you say 'what has been done cannot be undone', you mean you can't backtrack what you have said or do something you are not able to do.
Romain Gary的小说 Promise at Dawn 也出现了这个表达：
