| 单词 | happen on/upon somebody/something |
| 释义 | happen on/upon somebody/somethinghappen on/upon somebody/something phrasal verbphr v literary or old-fashioned FINDto find something or meet someone by chance 偶然发现；偶然遇见 SYN come across I happened on the restaurant by chance. 我偶然发现了这家餐馆。 Examples from the Corpus happen on/upon • The landing is supposed to have happened on December 27,1980.• How often do events of this sort, which leave no enduring geological record, happen on Earth?• The accident happened on Interstate 84 in Manchester, about 10 miles east of Hartford, during evening rush hour.• And what would happen on nanny's nights off?• There's nothing that happens on the estate which I don't know about.• That happened on the first and second of the month.• I want to travel around and talk to people about what is happening on the ground.• When I explained what had happened on the train he shook his head and said one should never trust the Moors. → happen on/upon somebody/something at happen(7) |
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