befell

基本解釋

As these that twice befell.
如同已降臨的這兩次。
In gentle tones, the minister advised me on “how to talk with the smallest ones” about what recently befell us.
教育部長以委婉的語氣，建議我“如何對(duì)最小的孩子”講述最近發(fā)生在我們身上的慘劇。
Palin's magnanimity does not stretch, however, to John McCain's senior aides in the 2008 race, whom she blames for many of the disasters that befell her on the campaign trail.
然而珮林的寬宏大量竝未延伸到2008年競選時(shí)的麥凱恩高級(jí)助手身上。她將在競選之路上降臨在她身上的許多災(zāi)難性事件都?xì)w咎於他們。

Ms Gallmann's animal-conservation crusade grew out of the terrible events that befell her family.
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Complete, sickening silence befell the stadium, as it always does when a play like that occurs.
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The Greek tragedy that befell Greece and its bonds has, thus, now become a Cypriot bank tragedy.
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