befall

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /bɪˈfɔːl/    美 /bɪˈfɔl/|/bɪˈfɑl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Case; instance; circumstance; event; incident; accident.
    — Or he had tolde al his befall.
动词 v.
  1. To fall upon; fall all over; overtake. transitive
    — At dusk an unusual calm befalls the wetlands.
  2. To happen. intransitive
    — It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon [...] that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time.
  3. To happen to. transitive
    — Temptation befell me.
  4. To fall. intransitive,obsolete
    — With a thought I tooke for Maudline & a cruse of cockle pottage. with a thing thus tall, skie blesse you all: I befell into this dotage.

词形变化

befalls present,singular,third-person befalling participle,present befell past befallen participle,past befalls plural

词汇关系

近义词
occur transpire
衍生词
befalling misbefall

词源

词源 1
From Middle English bifallen, from Old English befeallan, from Proto-West Germanic *bifallan, from Proto-Germanic *bifallaną; equivalent to be- + fall.
词源 2
From Middle English bifallen, from Old English befeallan, from Proto-West Germanic *bifallan, from Proto-Germanic *bifallaną; equivalent to be- + fall.
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