| 单词 | to come in upon a person |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto come in upon a person 15. intransitive. to come in upon a person: to enter a person's mind as a powerful impression; to be understood or perceived. Later also to come in on (or upon) a person's mind. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > idea, notion, or concept > come to mind, occur [verb (intransitive)] comeeOE runOE to come to mindOE occur?a1500 to move to mind?a1525 to come, fall under, lie in one's cap1546 to take (a person) in the head1565 present1585 overpass1591 to come in upon a person1638 suggest1752 to come up1889 1638 S. Rogers Diary 15 May (2004) 149 A litle distempered, and many unbeleiving thoughts come in upon mee doubtfulness, and anxietye. 1656 W. Hughes Anglo-Judæus 30 These (perhaps impertinent) thoughts have sometimes come in upon me. 1666 J. Bunyan Grace Abounding 50 As I was thus in musing,..that saying came in upon me, If thou, Lord, shouldst mark iniquity, [etc.]. 1757 London Chron. 13 Jan. 52/2 Even when the Doors are all locked up with Sleep, and I am purely passive, yet he [sc. the Lord] comes in upon me, and warns me in a Dream. 1817 J. Martin Serm. xxvii. 413 When one truth leads to another, and the glorious promises of the gospel come in on the mind, the man is exhilarated. 1886 J. McCarthy & R. C. Praed Right Hon'ble II. xxiii. 180 It came more and more in upon her that she had known from the very first. 1889 R. L. Stevenson Master of Ballantrae vi. 186 Has it never come in upon your mind what you are doing? 1901 Junior Munsey Aug. 813/2 There came in on my mind, less through the eyes than the ears, that there, in the moonlit woods, walked some one. 1930 W. D. Edmonds Big Barn xiii. 307 The silence of the glen came in upon him. < as lemmas |
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