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

• How does it come about that you were caught by the police?
  你被警察抓住是怎么发生的？
• 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？
• How did the differences between British English and American English come about?
  英国英语和美国英语之间的不同是怎样形成的？
• 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。
• How did these differences come about? There is no quick answer to this question.
  怎么这些差异从何而来？有没有快速的回答这个问题。
• Do you know how the phrase come about?
  你知道不知道这个成语是怎样产生的？
• I come about your grandson, lucius.
  我是为了你的孙子而来的，卢西尔斯。
• So how did your arrest come about?
  那么你是怎么会被抓起来？
• I don't know how this confusion has come about.
  我不知道这种混淆是怎么形成的。
• So you didn't come about the Jews at all.
  你不是为了犹太人而来。