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

• 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。
• 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。
• Even after the Victory Day bad events befell, and some Soviet soldiers had been killed in ambushes, sometimes because of their own carelessness or improvidence.
  甚至在胜利日后也有悲剧发生，有些苏军士兵被德国的残兵杀害了，有些时候是因为他们自己的粗心大意所致。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Having seen the fate that befell Bear Stearns, he had six months to find a buyer.
  在看到了贝尔斯登（bearstearns）的命运后，他有6个月的时间寻找一个买家。
• You do what Job did: "Then befell to the ground in worship and said:" Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart.
  你可以参照约伯的作法'他伏在地上下拜说：「我赤身出于母胎，也必赤身归回」赏赐的是耶和华，收取的也是耶和华。
• The full extent of the disaster that befell the museum came to light only today, as the frenzied looting that swept much of the capital over the previous three days began to ebb.
  这次降临在该博物馆的灾难的完整情况直到今天才被公众知晓，这时狂热的抢劫活动已经在过去的三天席卷了这个首都，并开始逐渐消退。
• Mr. Hopkins would not forgive us if some misfortune befell you.
  万一你出个意外，霍普金斯先生不会原谅我们。