come about

英 [kʌm əˈbaʊt]

美 [kʌm əˈbaʊt]

产生; 发生

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 产生;发生
  When you say how or when somethingcame about, you say how or when it happened.
  1. Any possible solution to the Irish question can only come about through dialogue...
     任何解决爱尔兰问题的可行方案只能通过对话产生。
  2. That came about when we went to Glastonbury last year...
     那是我们去年去格拉斯顿伯里的时候发生的事。
  3. Thus it came about that, after many years as an interior designer and antiques dealer, he combined both businesses.
     这样，在从事多年的室内设计和古董经营后，他把二者结合了起来。

英英释义

verb

• come to pass
  1. What is happening?
  2. The meeting took place off without an incidence
  3. Nothing occurred that seemed important
  Synonym:happenhapgo onpass offoccurpassfall outtake place

双语例句

• Do you know how the phrase come about?
  你知道不知道这个成语是怎样产生的？
• A: I've come about your offer for bristles.
  我今天来访的目的是想听取你方对猪鬃的报盘。
• Come about 4 o'clock. We'll have cocktails and grill steaks.
  请四点钟左右来，我们喝鸡尾酒，吃烤牛排。
• You will recall that I sent you a warning of troubled times. Well now, almost everything I forecast has come about.
  你还记得我警告过你时局会出现动荡吧。现在看来，几乎我预测的每件事都发生了。
• When Mother woke up, she didn't know what had come about.
  母亲醒来的时候，她不知道发生了什么？
• Any possible solution to the Irish question can only come about through dialogue
  任何解决爱尔兰问题的可行方案只能通过对话产生。
• The wind has come about in the last hour.
  最后一小时风向变了。
• I believe this will come about.
  我相信这一天终会到来。
• I don't know how this confusion has come about.
  我不知道这种混淆是怎么形成的。
• Anything analogous in real life? How did the idea of having it as an alternate power come about?
  现实生活中有没有类似的机构？让它作为替代势力的想法是怎么产生的？