befallen

英 [bɪˈfɔːlən]

美 [bɪˈfɔːlən]

v.  降临到(某人)头上; 发生在(某人)身上
befall的过去分词

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

• Somehow I also had to convey confidence to my daughter, to help her endure what had befallen us.
  我还得设法把信心传递给女儿，帮她忍受降临在我们身上的事情。
• Are you sure of all this, are you sure that nothing ill has befallen my boy?
  这一切都是真的吗，你确实知道我儿子没有遭遇任何不顺利的事吗？
• A disaster has befallen us.
  灾难降临了。
• She told him what unexpected things had befallen her, and then added, I am truly delighted at having found an opportunity of sending something to my poor husband.
  她告诉他她所遇到的意外之事，然后说：我真高兴有机会送点东西给我可怜的丈夫。
• It was one of the worst storms that had befallen Tokyo in ages.
  这是一场东京多年不遇的暴风雪。
• There stood the fair evangeline, a little paler than the day before, but otherwise exhibiting no traces of the accident which had befallen her.
  那里站着美丽的伊凡吉琳，脸色比前一天略为苍白些；否则，简直看不出有任何痕迹说明她遭遇到什么意外事件。
• In His presence you will forget all the harm and disgrace that shall have befallen you.
  在祂的尊前，你会忘掉施加给你的一切伤害和侮辱。
• The numbers are a stark reminder of what has befallen a company that played a central part in the postwar rise of Silicon Valley.
  这些数字提醒人们，这家在战后硅谷崛起过程中发挥中流砥柱作用的企业，经历了何种起伏波折。
• The same fate seems to have befallen active equity fund managers.
  如今同样的命运似乎落到了积极股票基金经理人的身上。
• On Friday Carrie remembered her appointment with hurstwood, and the passing of the hour when she should, by all right of promise, have been in his company served to keep the calamity which had befallen her exceedingly fresh and clear.
  星期五，嘉莉想起她和赫斯渥有个约会。她看着他们约会的那个小时一分分地过去，心里重新清晰地感受到自己身受的灾难。