| 词汇 | befall |
| 释义 | befall verb[ T or I ] literaryuk /bɪˈfɔːl/ us /bɪˈfɑːl/befell | befallen If something bad or dangerous befalls you, it happens to you: （坏事）降临（于），发生（在…身上） Should any harm befall me on my journey, you may open this letter.万一我这趟旅程有什么不测，你就打开这封信。 Synonym betideliterary Occurring and happening afoot asynchronous asynchronously attend attendant be at workidiom ensuing eventuate fall into placeidiom follow on go hand in hand with somethingidiom go off gone pass resynchronize roll roll around shake out succeed supervene befall | American Dictionarybefall verb[ T ] us/bɪˈfɔl/past tensebefellus/bɪˈfel/ | past participlebefallenus/bɪˈfɔ·lən/ (of something bad) to happen to a person or place: Many natural disasters have befallen that region. Examples of befallbefall People in mid-life were more concerned about what might befall them in later life than those who had reached old age. A contemporary chronicler opined (in the annal for 1011) that 'all those disasters befell us through bad policy (unraeligdas)'. However, the greater harm befalls the original middle-aged skilled and the original young skilled agents. In this sense the divorce was treated as a misfortune that befell the entire family, and they had to be close to get through it. Intellectuals were aware that a new era was approaching and felt strongly that the same fate would befall them. Incisions (gbere) are made on the body of the new member to prevent harm from befalling him or her. A household may insure itself against the risk of an illness or accident befalling any of its members by means of the extendedfamily system. It often befalls the paediatric cardiologist to initiate counselling while providing the expert information concerning the abnormality and its optimum management. Many industrialists found it almost impossible to concede that harm befell their employees as a direct consequence of their employment. For them, one might assume, the perpetrator lost his dignity by his own deeds and is therefore responsible for the calamity that befalls him later. The remainder of the book relates the puzzling new adventures that befall them on this alien planet - including a meeting with the narrator's doppelganger counterpart. Such a fate has befallen the present volume, a minor but inevitable fault. The consequentialist is concerned with the harms and benefits that befall the moral community (agents and patients). However, ' ' beforeness' ' and ' ' afterness' ' are not accidents that befall the parts. If they played the drum, a great calamity would befall them, perhaps even death. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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