befallen
[bɪ'fɔ:lən]
v.
降临到（某人）头上，发生( befall的过去分词 );
例句:
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If we had been careful such a calamity would not have befallen us.
假如我们谨慎的话,这种灾难不会降临到我们的头上.
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They supposed that some calamity had befallen the Governor.
他们心想这位先生一定遇到了什么无妄之灾.
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An accident has befallen him.
一件不测的事已临到他.
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He was haunted...with dreadful visions of what might have befallen her.
来自H. James
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The reader soon learns, however, that a slightly worse fate has befallen this poor entomologist.
来自WSJ
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Outside, a group of men gather beside a fire to smoke and talk about the disaster that has befallen their town.
来自VOA