Befall
[bɪ'fɔːl] or [bɪ'fɔl]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) become of; happen to; 'He promised that no harm would befall her'; 'What has become of my children?'.
校對:玛吉--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To happen to.
(v. i.) To come to pass; to happen.
校對:苏西
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Betide, overtake, happen to.
v. n. Happen, occur, take place.
阿尔塔編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Happen, occur, betide, fall, supervene, bechance
ANT:Miss, pass, spare, pretermit
富兰克林校對
解釋/意思:
v.t. to fall or happen to: to occur to.—v.i. to happen or come to pass: (Spens.) to fall in one's way:—pr.p. befall′ing; pa.t. befell′; pa.p. befall′en.
塞西莉亚校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Though war and danger were in store, war and danger might not befall for months to come. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- In full sight of whom, the malignant star of the Analytical has pre-ordained that pain and ridicule shall befall him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- And therefore he will be least likely to lament, and will bear with the greatest equanimity any misfortune of this sort which may befall him. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Whatever might befall now, he must on to his journey's end. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- When he had completed his experiment all interest in it was lost, and the jars and wires would be left to any fate that might befall them. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He whose prisoner thou art scorns to take mean revenge for what is paSt. But beware of the future, lest a worse thing befall thee. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Who can quit young lives after being long in company with them, and not desire to know what befell them in their after-years? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- We believe--Mas'r Davy, me, and all of us--that you are as innocent of everything that has befell her, as the unborn child. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Here an adventure befell me, in which (incredible as it may appear) you are personally interested. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- It is my wish, Mr. Ladislaw, to make amends for the deprivation which befell your mother. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- If the worst befell; if she learnt the truth, he would neither stand her reproaches, or the anguish of her altered looks. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I come now to the relation of a misfortune, which about this time befell Mrs. John Dashwood. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- I have no doubt, Mr Twemlow, that you have heard of a reverse of fortune having befallen us. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- In consequence of the disasters that had befallen us in the past few days, Lee could be reinforced largely, and I had no doubt he would be. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Wright, Nottingham bankers, but these bankers, figuring on the experience that had befallen the inventors of other spinning machines, soon withdrew their aid. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- That gallant officer at once knew what had befallen him. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- This release had befallen her some two years before; for anything I knew, she was married again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Pray compose yourself, sir, said Holmes, and let me have a clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen you. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- In that way Lydgate put the question--not quite in the way required by the awaiting answer; but such missing of the right word befalls many seekers. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I would I had not trusted Malkin to his keeping, for, crippled as I am with the cold rheum, I am undone if aught but good befalls her. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Put thy trust in him and, no matter what befalls thee here, he will make all right hereafter. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- When the mental is regarded as a self-contained separate realm, a counterpart fate befalls bodily activity and movements. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my species: to imagine such a lot befalling me is a fairy tale--a day-dream. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
哈伦校對