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

• That means you have not come upon your own being which is unique without any need of proof.
  那意味着你还没有发现你自己那种独一无二的、无需证明的存在。
• 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。
• As we grow old, the changes come upon us so slowly that they are almost imperceptible.
  当我们变老时，在我们身上发生的变化是如此缓慢，几乎难以察觉。
• 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。
• I've come upon the word several times.
  这个单词我已经碰到好几次了。
• These accesses of his disorder might come upon him at any moment.
  他的疾病随时都可能发作。
• Occasionally I come upon a familiar concept in my philosophical reading, one which I recognize as my own.
  偶尔在阅读中我会发现一些熟悉的概念，有一个仿佛就是我曾经自创的。
• The age of myth and miracle had come upon the world again.
  神话和奇迹的时代又回到人间。
• The Flower thought she had suddenly come upon the summer.
  这朵花儿以为它已经进入夏天了。
• 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。