| 单词 | to fall across |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto fall across —— to fall across —— intransitive. To meet or encounter by chance; to happen on, come across. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (transitive)] > encounter or experience ymetec893 findeOE meetOE counterc1325 overtakec1390 limp?a1400 tidea1400 runa1450 to fall with ——?c1475 onlightc1475 recounterc1485 recount1490 to come in witha1500 occur1531 to fall on ——1533 to fall upon ——1533 beshine1574 rencontre1582 entertain1591 cope with1594 happen1594 tocome1596 incur1599 forgather1600 thwart1601 to fall in1675 cross1684 to come across ——1738 to cross upon (or on)1748 to fall across ——1760 experience1786 to drop in1802 encounter1814 to come upon ——1820 to run against ——1821 to come in contact with1862 to run across ——1864 to knock or run up against1886 to knock up against1887 1760 D. Gordon Gen. Hist. Royal & Noble Personages III. 162 Six days afterwards they fell across the bay of Alchaser, or Biscay, and at last bore full into it. 1835 J. H. Newman Let. 14 Aug. in Lett. & Diaries (1981) V. 124 I should like to fall across a Romanist to get into their system; but I do not anticipate any great satisfaction from getting intimate with him. a1885 ‘H. Conway’ Living or Dead (1886) I. v. 86 I happened to fall across Estmere the next day in the park. 1906 Leather Trades' Rev. 14 Mar. 173/1 I well remember when on the road it was my fortune to fall across one of these [currier's shops]. 2005 S. Lee & S. Miller Crystal Soldier xvi.164 One can's carrying generic Light-goods for the entertainment of any port cops we happen to fall across. < as lemmas |
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