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

• 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。
• 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。
• Many exciting things befell her during that visit.
  在访问期间，她碰到许多令人激动的事。
• 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。
• 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。
• Two years later, in the oasis of Khaybar, a different fate befell another Jewish group.
  两年后，在绿洲的海拜尔，不同遭此命运的另一个犹太集团。
• It was through my awful memory for names that something unpleasant befell me not too long ago.
  在枯涩的记忆中搜索人名的时候我才想起不久前发生了一件不愉快的事情。
• He wanted to stay at the Volga until tragedy befell, and Goring's transparent lie helped him to do it.
  他要留在伏尔加河，一直等到悲剧降临，而戈林的骗不了人的瞎话在这一点上给他帮了忙。
• And that, more than access to any particular class or bit of educational content, was what saved me from the fate of early marriage and poverty that befell so many others.
  这些指引比上任何特定课程或学习任何教育内容都更为重要，正是这些指引使我摆脱了像许多人那样早早嫁人和陷于贫困的命运。
• 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。