英和和英

成句

bound to (See usage note in must.)

1. (only with a bare infinitive) Indicates something which cannot be avoided.

   The leaking fuel tank was bound to explode sooner or later.

   There was bound to be friction between a firstborn and his strong-willed stepmother.

   • 1967, Jacques Marcuse, “Conclusion Inconclusive: A Postscript”, in The Peking Papers‎, Arthur Barker Limited, published 1968, →OCLC, page 344; republished as “The Red Guards Condemned”, in Colin Mackerras, editor, Sinophiles and Sinophobes: Western Views of China‎, Oxford University Press, 2000, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 149:

     Still, the real victims of the hung wei ping are ultimately bound to be the hung wei ping themselves.