命不可说 (命不可說) mìng bù kě shuō

mìng bù kě shuō phrase fate cannot be foretold
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Quote: from the poem 鵩鳥賦 “The Owl” by 賈誼 Jia Yi contained in 史記 “Records of the Grand Historian”, volume 84 by 司馬遷 Sima Qian 45-86 BCE (Amies 2021 tr.; see also Sima Qian and Watson tr. 1993, vol I, p. 448)