befell

英 [bɪˈfel]

美 [bɪˈfel]

v.  降临到(某人)头上; 发生在(某人)身上
befall的过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB （不幸或不好的事）降临到…头上，发生在…身上
  If something bad or unluckybefallsyou, it happens to you.
  1. ...the disaster that befell the island of Flores.
     降临到弗洛里斯岛的灾难

双语例句

• Many exciting things befell her during that visit.
  在访问期间，她碰到许多令人激动的事。
• Modern woman has been freed from many of the duties that befell her sisters in times past.
  现代女性已经从许多压在旧时女性身上的责任中解放出来了。
• A succession of misfortunes befell the poor little girl.
  这个可怜的女孩遭受了种种不幸。
• People close to Lehman say the bank is now convinced that it is the target of an orchestrated campaign by short-sellers attempting to force it into sharing the same fate as befell bear.
  熟悉雷曼兄弟的人士透露，该行现在确信自己已经成为卖空者一项有组织预谋的对象，企图迫使其遭受与贝尔斯登相同的命运。
• On August I have been to Beijing to watch an Olympic sports game and then a good news befell me.
  这一年的八月，我去北京观看了奥运会比赛，同时，幸运也降临到了我的头上。
• For these reasons it came to pass that the Eldar brought forth few children; and also that their time of generation was in their youth or earlier life, unless strange and hard fates befell them.
  也正是出于这个原因，埃尔达精灵的孩子数量不会很多，而且生孩子的时间一般都集中在自己的年轻时代。
• I'm writing today about a tragedy that befell my classmate.
  我写的是今天发生在我同学身上的一个灾难。
• Such an experience befell a certain young girl the first time she was traveling alone.
  一个小姑娘第一次单独出门就碰到了这种情况。
• So it befell that by false cunning and pretended tears those were conquered whom great Diomedes had never overcome, nor savage Achilles, nor ten years of warfare, nor a thousand ships.
  大意是，狄俄墨得斯、阿喀琉斯、十年战事、上千首战船都无法攻下的特洛伊城，却沦陷于狡诈和泪水之中。
• He noted what repeatedly befell him, that, after receiving from a distance a rare plant, he would presently find the same in his own haunts.
  他注意到不止一次发生这样的事情，每每他从远方收到一种罕有植物，他总能在自己身边的搜寻中立即发现同样的。