1.落到...的身上,降临于
2.发生,降临
1.if something unpleasant befalls you, it happens to you
1.When you think of the massacre that befell this quiet college town, those are the memories Peter Read wants you to remember.
若你想到这个安静的大学镇突然遭受的残杀时，PeterRead希望你想到的是这些记忆。
2.but I must be a blockhead indeed, if, whatever befell me, I could think of your kindness and sympathy without the sincerest gratitude.
不管出现什么情况，我一想到你对我的好意和盛情，而能不感到由衷的感激，那我一定是个十足的傻瓜。
3.He noted what repeatedly befell him, that, after receiving from a distance a rare plant, he would presently find the same in his own haunts.
他注意到不止一次发生这样的事情，每每他从远方收到一种罕有植物，他总能在自己身边的搜寻中立即发现同样的。
4.Until adversity and tragedy befell him in middle age, William Holden Bell had lived a reasonably successful and happy life.
威廉·霍尔顿·贝尔在生活和事业上一直相当心满意足，不料到了中年，却时去运衰，屡遭不幸。
5.I come now to the relation of a misfortune which about this time befell Mrs. John Dashwood.
现在，我且来讲述大约在这时降临到约翰·达希伍德太太头上的灾祸。
6.A similar fate also befell three paintings by Kees van Dongen, who has been such a hit with Russian buyers over the past two years.
即便是在过去的两年里深受俄罗斯买家青睐的凯斯•凡•东根所作的三幅画也没能逃脱类似的命运。
7.No doubt you've heard about the tragedy that befell the town of Tristram . Some say that Diablo, the Lord of Terror, walks the world again.
毫无疑问的，你们已经听说了降临在崔特斯姆特的悲剧。也有人说暗黑破坏神这个恐怖之王，又再度踏上这个世界。
8.It so befell that once when they were all standing together by the tree, a young knight came up.
当她们再次都来到树前的时候同样的事情又发生了，一个年轻的骑士出现了。
9.He wanted to stay at the Volga until tragedy befell , and Goring's transparent lie helped him to do it .
他要留在伏尔加河，一直等到悲剧降临，而戈林的骗不了人的瞎话在这一点上给他帮了忙。
10.In one important respect, the threat in the U. S. might be even greater than what befell Japan.
重要的一点是，美国遭遇的威胁可能比日本还要大。