come upon

英 [kʌm əˈpɒn]

美 [kʌm əˈpɑːn]

偶然碰到（或发现）; （某种态度或感觉）开始影响（某人）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 偶然碰到(或发现)
  If youcome uponsomeone or something, you meet them or find them by chance.
  1. I came upon an irresistible item at a yard sale.
     在一次庭院拍卖会上，我偶然发现了一个忍不住想买的东西。
• PHRASAL VERB 产生(某种态度或感觉)
  If an attitude or feelingcomes uponyou, it begins to affect you.
  1. A sense of impending doom came upon all of us.
     我们所有人都有一种大难临头的感觉。

英英释义

verb

• take possession of
  1. She entered upon the estate of her rich relatives
  Synonym:enter uponluck into
• find unexpectedly
  1. the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb
  2. she struck a goldmine
  3. The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake
  Synonym:fall uponstrikelight uponchance uponcome acrosschance onhappen uponattaindiscover

双语例句

• Beauty and poverty make Mary come upon the town.
  美丽和贫困使玛丽沦为娼妓。
• "The curse is come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott.
  “这对我来是诅咒，”哭了作者：夏洛特夫人。
• "My doom has come upon me," said the Witch in a voice of horrible calmness.
  “我的末日到了。”女巫的声膏里有一种可怕的平静。
• This is the journey the mind had to take to come upon this beauty without the word.
  这就是心灵要不用语言地遭遇这美所必须要走的旅程。
• When these things come upon you according to this blessing and this curse that I have set before you, you will recall them among the nations where Yahweh, your God, has driven you.
  几时这一切事，就是我在你面前提出的祝福和诅咒，来到你身上，而你在上主你的天主驱逐你去的异族中，回心转意。
• These accesses of his disorder might come upon him at any moment.
  他的疾病随时都可能发作。
• The economic ills we suffer have come upon us over several decades.
  我们的经济弊病是在过去几十年中积累下来的。
• I await the day of distress that will come upon the people who attack us.
  我在静待那困难的日子，因为那日子必要临于进攻我们的民族身上。
• No! Do not let me see the misery that would come upon my father.
  恐怕我看见灾祸临到我父亲身上。
• I've come upon the word several times.
  这个单词我已经碰到好几次了。