+across/along/down/into etc A tall woman in black was coming across the lawn. 一位高个子的黑衣女子正穿过草地走过来。

We’ ve got people coming to dinner tonight. 我们家今晚有客人来吃饭。

come here/home/nearer/downstairs etc Billy, I want you to come here at once! 比利，我要你马上过来！

come and do sth Come and tell me all about it. 来把一切都告诉我。

come to do sth She’ s got someone coming this morning to fix the computer. 今天上午她叫人来给她修电脑。

come running/flying/rushing/crashing etc somewhere All the glasses came crashing onto the floor. 所有的杯子哗啦一声摔到了地上。

come by train/car/plane etc We flew into Paris and came the rest of the way by train. 我们乘飞机到巴黎，剩下的路程坐火车。

come to a decision/conclusion/view etc We came to the conclusion that she must be telling the truth. 我们得出的结论是，她肯定是在说实话。

come to an end/stop/halt/standstill All good things must come to an end. 世上没有永远的好事。

come to power/prominence When the Conservatives came to power they continued these policies. 保守党上台后，他们继续推行这些政策。

come into existence/operation/effect etc The new changes will come into effect next month. 新调整将于下个月开始生效。

come into view/sight (=to start to be seen) As we turned the corner, the top of the Eiffel Tower came into view. 进入视线

come as high/low/far etc as sth The road comes as far as the post office and then turns into a dirt track. 这条路一直通到邮局，然后就是土路。

come up/down to sth The water came up to my shoulders. 水没到了我的肩膀。

The news could not have come at a better time. 消息来得正是时候。

Police investigated him for three years before the breakthrough came. 警方调查他3年之后才有了突破。

come as a shock/surprise/relief/disappointment/reminder etc (=be a shock etc) It came as no surprise that she left the company. 令人震惊/令人吃惊/让人宽慰/令人失望/作为提醒等

This news has come as a disappointment to local business leaders. 对当地的商界领袖来说，这个消息令人失望。

coming soon Coming soon, the new smash-hit comedy starring Julia Roberts. 这部由朱丽娅·罗伯茨主演的新喜剧即将上映。

come in twos/threes etc (=two/three etc of them happen at the same time) Instances of bad luck are supposed to come in threes. 接二连三地发生

+in The long-sleeved dress comes in yellow and blue. 这种长袖连衣裙有黄色和蓝色的两种颜色。

+with All new cars come with one year’ s free insurance. 所有新车都附有一年的免费保险。

come before/after sb/sth July comes before August. 7月在8月之前。

come first/second/third etc She came first in a national poetry competition. 她在全国诗歌比赛中名列第一。

My children always come first (=are the most important thing for me) . 我的孩子总是第一位的。

Her husband is kind, helpful, and as handsome as they come. 她丈夫又和善又肯帮忙，而且别提有多英俊了。

The woman in the flat downstairs has people coming and going at all hours. 住在楼下公寓的那个女人不停地有客人来来往往。

Over the centuries we have seen many civilizations come and go. 几个世纪以来，我们目睹了各种文明来来往往。

He had come as Napoleon. 他装扮成了拿破仑。

In spite of problems, we kept on filming and hoped it would come good in the end. 尽管有问题，我们还是继续拍电影，希望能有个好结局。

I’ d rather not come into contact with any of her friends. 我可不想和她的任何朋友接触。

Could she have come into contact with the disease at school? 她会不会是在学校染上了这种病？

Computers have come a long way since the huge mainframes of the 1950s. 自从20世纪50年代庞大的主机出现以来，计算机已经有了巨大的进步。

She had come to regard him as one of her few real friends. 她已经开始把他当作少数几个真正的朋友之一。

the man who had come to symbolize the Franco-American alliance 已经开始成为法美联盟象征的那个人

I’ m just explaining to them how we come to be in Liverpool. 我正在向他们解释我们是怎么碰巧到了利物浦的。

Use whatever tools come to hand. 利用手头现有的任何工具。

a style of writing that will make your characters come to life on the page 能把人物刻画得栩栩如生的写作风格

The match really came to life in the second half. 比赛到下半场才真正变得激烈起来。

I love getting her letters. Come to think of it, I haven’ t had one for a while. 我非常喜欢收到她的来信。想起来了，已经有一段时间没收到了。

Be careful! Your shoelaces have come undone. 小心！你的鞋带松开了。

Don’ t come the innocent with me! 别在我面前装出一副无辜的样子。

Here comes Dad, and he doesn’ t look very happy. 爸爸走过来了，他看上去不太开心。

How come you never listen to anything I say? 为什么你从来都不听我说的话？

Houses like this don’ t come cheap. 这样的房子都不便宜。

We’ re just taking each day as it comes. 我们只是每天随遇而安。

days/weeks/months etc to come We were to remain enemies for years to come. 我们在以后的几年里一直互相为敌。

+through The increase in production has come about through the use of technology. 由于技术的运用，产量出现了提高。

it comes about that I don’ t know how it came about that we stopped loving each other. 我不知道我们怎么就不相爱了。

I came across a word I’ d never seen before. 我碰到一个从来没见过的单词。

Have you ever come across such a horrible person in all your life? 你一生中遇到过这么可怕的人吗？

A lot depends on how well you come across in the interview. 大部分都取决于你面试时给人留下的印象。

come across as (being) sth She comes across as very self-confident. 她给人留下很自信的印象。

He decided to give the money to the first stranger who came along. 他决定把钱给第一个出现的陌生人。

He told me to work hard and take every opportunity that comes along. 他告诉我要努力工作，抓住眼前出现的每一个机会。

I’ ve never seen a baseball game – do you mind if I come along? 我从来没有看过棒球比赛，你不介意我和你一起去吧？

The building work was coming along nicely. 施工进展顺利。

be coming along with sth How’ s Kathleen coming along with her swimming? 凯瑟琳游泳学得怎么样了？

A stranger came at him with a knife. 一个陌生人拿着一把刀向他扑过来。

Try coming at it from a different angle. 试着从另一个角度去处理。

Another block of stone came away from the wall. 又一块石头从墙上脱落下来。

We came away with the feeling that they didn’ t really approve of us. 我们离开时感到他们并不是真的赞同我们。

We decided to come back to Scotland for another holiday. 我们决定再回到苏格兰度一次假。

+to I can’ t think of her name right now, but I’ m sure it’ ll come back to me. 我现在想不起她的姓名，但我肯定会记起来的。

Jane came back with a strong response. 简作出强烈的反应。

They came back from behind to win 3–2. 他们在比分落后的情况下最终以3比2反败为胜。

Can we come back to my original question? 我们能回到我原来的问题上来吗？

In these situations, your family comes before everything else. 在这些情况下，你的家庭比任何事情都更重要。

The case comes before the Magistrates again in June. 这个案子6月份再一次被提交到地方法庭。

He didn’ t want this to come between them. 他不想让这件事损害他们之间的关系。

She was determined that nothing would come between her and the manager’ s job. 她决定不让任何事影响她这份经理的工作。

How did you come by such a beautiful house? 你是怎么弄到这么漂亮的房子的？

be hard to come by At that time, teaching jobs abroad were hard to come by. 那时，国外教书的工作很难找到。

I’ ll come by this afternoon and we can talk about what happened. 我今天下午要去你那儿，我们可以谈谈发生的事。

He was sitting in a tree and refused to come down. 他坐在树上不下来。

Interest rates have come down significantly in the last three years. 过去3年利率大幅度下降。

My parents are coming down for the weekend. 我父母要来这儿度周末。

Everything depends on which side the judge comes down on. 一切都取决于法官站在哪一边。

come down in favour of/against The council came down in favour of closing the road. 政务会决定支持封闭该道路。

the version of the story that has come down to us 流传下来为我们所知的故事版本

+to/as far as The jacket came down almost to his knees. 夹克衫几乎长及他的膝盖。

She came down pretty hard on the kids for making a mess. 由于孩子们把东西弄得乱七八糟，她相当严厉地训斥了他们。

In the end, it all comes down to money. 最终，所有问题都归结到钱上。

The taxi will come for us at around 8 o’ clock. 出租车8点左右来接我们。

I’ ve just come for the book your brother borrowed from me. 我只是来取回你哥哥向我借的书。

The National Blood Service is anxious for more donors to come forward. 国家血液中心急切盼望更多的志愿者来献血。

+with Police said that several people had come forward with information about the attack. 警察说已经有好几个人提供了关于这次袭击的信息。

The serum comes from a tropical plant. 这种浆液产自一种热带植物。

Opposition may also come from hardliners within his own party. 反对还可能来自他自己党派内的强硬派。

I can’ t tell where the noise is coming from, can you? 我分不清声音是从哪儿传来的，你呢？

My parents came from Italy. 我父母出生于意大利。

His air of confidence came from his firm belief that he was the best candidate for the job. 他坚信自己是这份工作的最佳人选，所以显得很自信。

come from doing sth It’ s the kind of accident that comes from being careless. 这是由于疏忽大意而造成的事故。

Come in and sit down. 进来，坐下。

What time does his train come in? 他那趟火车几点到达？

Reports are coming in of a major air accident. 有关一起重大飞机事故的报道正不断传过来。

I’ d like to come in here and make a suggestion. 我想在这里插句话，提一个建议。

+on If your friend wants to come in on the deal, he’ ll need to put a lot of money on the table. 如果你朋友想参与到这场交易中来，他必须投入很多的钱。

+with I’ m looking for people to come in with me on a new restaurant venture. 我在寻找愿意和我合作经营一家新餐馆的伙伴。

come in first/second/third etc My horse came in third. 我的马跑了第三。

Fast food has come in for further criticism in a report published today. 在今天刊登的一篇报道中，快餐遭到进一步的批评。

The argument was over artistic freedom – money never came into it. 辩论的话题是艺术自由，钱并不在讨论之列。

I wrote to over twenty companies asking for work, but nothing came of my efforts. 我给20多家公司写了求职信，但是毫无结果。

that’ s what comes of (doing) sth Don’ t complain about being tired – that’ s what comes of watching TV until three in the morning. 别抱怨有多累，那是看电视看到凌晨3点的结果。

The chewing gum wouldn’ t come off. 口香糖去不掉。

She’ d come off her new bike and hurt her knee. 她从新买的自行车上掉下来，把膝盖弄伤了。

What if their plan doesn’ t come off? 他们的计划要是不成功怎么办？

The party didn’ t quite come off as we had hoped. 晚会不如我们所希望的那么成功。

come off well/badly/best/worst He came off quite badly in the exchange of insults. 在对骂中他表现得相当差劲。

I saw a light come on in an upstairs window. 我看见楼上一扇窗户里的灯亮了。

When he came on, the audience finally began to show some interest. 他登场后，观众才终于开始有了一些兴趣。

How’ s the building work coming on? 建筑施工进展如何？

+with She’ s coming on fine with her music. 她的音乐学得不错。

We came on an injured animal lying at the side of the road. 我们偶然发现路边躺着一只受伤的动物。

We’ ll come on to the politics of the situation in a moment. 一会儿我们要转到对政治形势的讨论上来。

We’ ve recorded a new album, and it’ s coming out in the spring. 我们录制了一盘新专辑，将于春天问世。

He said it’ ll all come out in court. 他说在法庭上一切都会真相大白。

it comes out that It eventually came out that she was already married. 最终传出她已经结婚的消息。

I didn’ t mean it to come out as a criticism. 我没有批评的意思。

come out (all) wrong She had only meant to defend herself, but it had come out all wrong. 她原本只是要为自己辩解，可是完全被理解错了。

It’ s impossible at this stage to judge how the vote will come out. 现阶段不可能判断投票结果会怎样。

come out (all) right in the end I’ m sure it will all come out all right in the end. 我敢肯定最后结局会很好。

come out in favour of/against (doing) sth The commission has come out against the takeover. 委员会宣布反对这次接管。

come out on strike It seemed clear that the workers would come out on strike. 看来工人们显然是要罢工了。

She can’ t eat shellfish without coming out in spots. 她一吃贝类食物就会起皮疹。

I hope some good will come out of all this. 我希望这一切会有好结果。

You never know what the children are going to come out with. 你永远无法知道孩子们会突然说出什么话来。

Why don’ t you come over for dinner? 你何不到我家来吃晚饭？

+to Come over to my place and we’ ll discuss it. 到我这儿来，我们一起讨论这件事。

A wave of anger came over him. 他忽然感到一阵愤怒。

I came over all emotional when I saw him. 我一看到他就百感交集。

The president announced that there would be an amnesty for all who now came over to him. 总统宣布，所有现在倒戈支持他的人都可以得到赦免。

Why don’ t you come round after work? 你下班后何不到我这儿来？

We were sure she’ d come round in the end. 我们相信她最终会改变主意的。

It’ s been a very upsetting time but we’ ve come through it together. 那是一段很难熬的日子，但我们一起挺过来了。

The team came through when it mattered. 关键时刻队伍毫不畏惧，迎头而上。

The idea came to me when we were on holiday. 我是在我们度假的时候想到这个主意的。

Her name will come to me in a minute. 我一会儿就会想起她的名字。

it comes to sb that It came to her that it was foolish to expect him to help. 她意识到指望他帮忙是很愚蠢的。

If it comes to war, NATO forces will be stronger in the air. 如果发生战争，北约的空中力量会更强大。

With salaries and overtime the bill came to £752,000. 薪水加上加班费总共是752000英镑。

come to nothing/something/not much etc His teachers all agreed that he wouldn’ t come to anything much. 他的老师们一致认为他不会有多大作为。

The department had come under criticism for poor performance. 该部门因为业绩很差而遭到批评。

come under scrutiny/suspicion Airport security will now come under increased scrutiny. 机场的安检将会更严格。

come under pressure President Bush has come under pressure to step up the sanctions. 布什总统面临要求加快制裁的压力。

Issues relating to pay come under the personnel department. 工资的有关事宜由人事部门负责。

Libraries and swimming pools come under Leisure Services. 图书馆和游泳池归入休闲服务部门。

I’ m going to have to cancel our lunch – something’ s come up. 我将不得不取消我们的午餐，因为出了点儿事。

+to Strangers come up to him in the street and say how much they enjoy his books. 街上的陌生人走近他，并告诉他他们是多么喜欢读他写的书。

My mother’ s coming up from England for the weekend. 我母亲从英格兰来这里过周末。

His case comes up next week. 他的案子下周开庭审理。

+to/as far as The grass in the garden came up to her knees. 花园里的草长到了与她齐膝高。

In the first week, we came up against a pretty tricky problem. 我们在第一周就遇到一个相当棘手的问题。

The contract comes up for review next month. 合同到下个月要受审查。

As we come up to the end of the first half, the score remains France 3, Italy 3. 法国队和意大利队比赛的上半场快要结束时，比分仍然是3∶3平。

It’ s hard for others to come up to the very high standards she sets for herself. 其他人很难达到她为自己定出的那么高的标准。

Is that the best you can come up with? 那是你能想出的最好的办法吗？

We’ re in big trouble if we don’ t come up with the money by 6 o’ clock. 如果我们6点之前拿不出钱来，麻烦就大了。

the kind of skill that comes with years of practice 通过多年训练练就的技能