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

• 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。
• Yoshiki, despite so many setbacks in his personal life and the tragedy that recently befell his homeland, remains dedicated to healing and redemption.
  虽然他的人生曾经经历过很多挫折，这次的悲剧又降临他的祖国，仍然致力于献身救助和弥合（伤口的）事业。
• 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。
• A misfortune befell him.
  不幸降临到他身上。
• One day a good fortune befell him.
  一天之间，他就时来运转。
• It was through my awful memory for names that something unpleasant befell me not too long ago.
  在枯涩的记忆中搜索人名的时候我才想起不久前发生了一件不愉快的事情。
• For these reasons it came to pass that the Eldar brought forth few children; and also that their time of generation was in their youth or earlier life, unless strange and hard fates befell them.
  也正是出于这个原因，埃尔达精灵的孩子数量不会很多，而且生孩子的时间一般都集中在自己的年轻时代。
• We doubt whether any marked event, for good or evil, ever befell New England, from its settlement down to Revolutionary times, of which the inhabitants had not been previously warned by some spectacle of this nature.
  从移民时期直到革命年代，凡是发生在新英格兰的重大事件，无论好也罢，坏也罢，恐怕都受过这类性质的某种景象的事先警告。许多人都曾多次见过。
• He wanted to stay at the Volga until tragedy befell, and Goring's transparent lie helped him to do it.
  他要留在伏尔加河，一直等到悲剧降临，而戈林的骗不了人的瞎话在这一点上给他帮了忙。
• 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。