- Befall is an old-fashioned or literary way of saying something happened by chance. Bad luck befalls a heroine who drops her lucky rabbit foot.
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- vi. 降临
- vt. 降临；发生
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1. The Japanese have responded to the worst disaster to befall them in modern times stoically – some, such as the workers who volunteered to stay in the stricken plant, heroically.
日本民众对于发生在他们身上的当代最为严重的灾难以坚韧的精神作出了回应——像是那些自愿守护在受损的核电站的英勇的工人们。
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2. Nevertheless, “luck” seemed to befall this poor village.
然而不久, “幸运之神” 降临到这个村子里.
- befall (v.) Old English befeallan "to deprive of; fall to, occur to, be assigned to," from be- "by, about" + feallan (see fall). Compare Old Frisian bifalla, Old Saxon, Old High German bifallan, German befallen. Intransitive sense of "to happen, come to pass" is from c. 1300. Related: Befell; befalling.
be·fall / bɪˈfɔːl ; NAmE bɪˈfɔːl / verb ( be·fell / bɪˈfel ; NAmE bɪˈfel / , be·fallen / bɪˈfɔːlən ; NAmE bɪˈfɔːlən / ) befallsb ( used only in the third person 仅用于第三人称 ) ( literary) (of sth unpleasant 令人不快的事 ) to happen to sb 降临到（某人）头上；发生 ◆ They were unaware of the fate that was to befall them. 他们并不知道即将降临到他们头上的厄运。 befall befalls befell befalling befallen be·fall / bɪˈfɔːl ; NAmE bɪˈfɔːl / be·fell / bɪˈfel ; NAmE bɪˈfel / be·fallen / bɪˈfɔːlən ; NAmE bɪˈfɔːlən /
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