a foregone conclusion

基本解释

QE is a foregone conclusion right after Election Day, so let's finish discounting it.
QE在選擧日後將是一個預知的結果，所以讓我現在就來貼現它吧。
The idea of decoupling lives on, but that does not mean sustained prosperity in the big emerging economies is a foregone conclusion.
脫鉤理論繼續存在，但新興大國將保持經濟繁榮的這一結論還顯得爲時尚早。
Gould’s view was thus that the evolution of human intelligence while not exactly an accident, since it was a response to a long series of circumstances, was certainly not a foregone conclusion.
古德認爲人類的智力進化不完全是一個偶然的過程，因爲智力的産生是通過長期對一系列環境的反應而形成的，儅然不可能是預料中必然的結果。

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In Tunisia too, the result of the election in October is a foregone conclusion.
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