| 单词 | to come a person's way |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto come (also fall) a person's way (d) to come (also fall) a person's way: to be met with or encountered in the course of a person's experience; to happen to or become available to someone. Cf. to come (also fall, lie, etc.) in one's way at Phrases 2e(e)(i). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (transitive)] > fall to one shootc1175 happen1477 to come in one's way1533 land1679 to come a person's waya1816 to drop into the lap of1962 a1816 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry (1819) II. i. i. 3 When your book came my way, I read all of it that I could understand. 1855 Dublin Univ. Mag. Apr. 456/1 Providence..gave me the means and inclination to profit by every glimpse that comes my way of the green and rose-colour of human nature. 1867 Sunday Mag. 1 Nov. 87/2 The Gospel comes his way in a sermon because he has taken shelter from a shower in a church porch. 1932 W. Cather Obscure Destinies 43 The coppers that came Anton's way were very few. 1937 J. P. Marquand Late George Apley xi. 124 It is hard..to love the whole new group of extraneous people who fall your way, simply because they are relatives of your wife. 1992 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 Jan. 53/2 Ian reasonably supposes that no bitterer news can possibly come his way. 2004 Stardust (Internat. ed.) June 94 I have taken on more work than I can chew, but then too many good offers have been coming my way. < as lemmas |
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