a foregone conclusion

基本解释

QE is a foregone conclusion right after Election Day, so let's finish discounting it.
QE在选举日后将是一个预知的结果，所以让我现在就来贴现它吧。
The idea of decoupling lives on, but that does not mean sustained prosperity in the big emerging economies is a foregone conclusion.
脱钩理论继续存在，但新兴大国将保持经济繁荣的这一结论还显得为时尚早。
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.
古德认为人类的智力进化不完全是一个偶然的过程，因为智力的产生是通过长期对一系列环境的反应而形成的，当然不可能是预料中必然的结果。

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