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

• 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。
• And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him.
  将所遇的一切事，详细说给他的妻细利斯，和他的众朋友听。
• These political partnerships will ensure a degree of insulation from the type of problems that have befallen BP, while providing oil firms access to markets currently beyond reach.
  这种政治合作将确保国际石油公司一定程度上免受bp那种问题的困扰，同时让它们得以进入目前无法企及的市场。
• The greatest disaster that has ever befallen us.
  我们遭受的最严重的灾难。
• These words were written in 1960 and the calamity that had befallen Mainland China was the persecution of the scholars, referred to as Da Zheng Feng.
  这诗是1960年写的，正是指责大陆当年如火如荼进行大整风的浩劫。
• The troubles that have befallen our nation are extremely serious, and only a scientific approach and a spirit of responsibility can lead it on to the road of liberation.
  我们民族的灾难深重极了，惟有科学的态度和负责的精神，能够引导我们民族到解放之路。
• The string of disasters that has befallen the nation since then will only add to questions about where the limits of the long-suffering public's patience lie.
  这个国家此后遭遇的连串灾难只会增加疑问：公众的耐心极限在哪里？
• 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？
• If the affliction is now affecting China, then it will have befallen all the large economies.
  如果说这种苦恼正在影响中国，那么它会降临所有大型经济体。