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self-fulfilling


.self-ful'filling
adj
if a statement or belief about what will happen in the future is self-fulfilling, it becomes true because you expect it to be true and so behave in a way that will make it happen
 It's a self-fulfilling prophecy : expect things to go wrong, and they probably will.
1. Fulfilling its designer´s dream to create ´an enormous object drawn as faintly as possible´.
    实现了设计者企图创造一个"尽量用细线条勾画出一个庞然大物"的梦想。

2. Having decided to go to prison, Soapy at once set about fulfilling his desire.
    下了决心要进监狱,苏比就立即着手实现这一愿望。

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