foregone conclusion 预料之中的事

英文释义

A result that is assumed to be obvious; an inevitable outcome.

例句

When the ambitious son of our company's elderly owner was starting working with us, it was a foregone conclusion that someday he would be our boss.

当我们年迈老板的雄心勃勃的儿子开始和我们共事时，未来他当我们的老板就成了一件预料之中的事。