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

• 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。
• 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。
• Nothing that ever befell me in my life sank so deep into my heart as this farewell.
  我生平所经历的事情没有一件象这次别离这么深切地刺我的心。
• 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。
• The disease befell so furiously that he could not be spared and was arranged in a small ward with another patient in the segregation area in a hospital.
  疫疾来得凶猛，他不能幸免。他和另外一个患者被安排在一家人民医院隔离区的小病房里。房间空空落落，只有一扇小窗连接外面的世界。疫疾来得凶猛，他不能幸免。
• 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。
• As a result, misfortune befell. Liu Hongyu fouled out, too.
  结果厄运降临，刘宏宇也被罚掉。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。