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？
• 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？
• 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。
• How does it come about that you were caught by the police?
  你被警察抓住是怎么发生的？
• Can you tell me how the accident come about?
  你能告诉我这事故是怎样发生的吗？
• I don't know how this confusion has come about.
  我不知道这种混淆是怎么形成的。
• How did it come about?
  这事儿怎么来的？
• 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。
• So how did your arrest come about?
  那么你是怎么会被抓起来？
• But when and how that might come about is something I just can't answer right now.
  至于何时以及如何能够实现，我目前还不能回答这个问题。