fall upon

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To experience; to suffer.
    — With the rise of the Internet, some media fell upon hard times.
  2. To occur at some particular point in time.
    — It fell upon the day of full moon of the fourth month, the second year, in the era of Established Calm (AD 168), that Emperor Ling went in state to the Hall of Virtue.
  3. To set upon; to attack suddenly; to invade.
    — If the Duke, with the other dukes, come not to composition with the king of Hungary, why then all the dukes fall upon the king.
  4. To happen upon, find.
    — If we dig deeply into why it was so important for mainstream USA (and the rest that followed) to smear Jackson, we may fall upon the same reasons why more attention has been paid to Black women making anti-Semitic remarks than white women.

词形变化

falls upon present,singular,third-person falling upon participle,present fell upon past fallen upon participle,past fall on alternative
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