come about

1. PHRASAL VERB 产生;发生
   When you say how or when something came 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。

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。
4. 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。
5. How did it come about?
   这事儿怎么来的？
6. The wind has come about in the last hour.
   最后一小时风向变了。
7. How did this juxtaposition come about?
   这一切是如何发生的呢？
8. A: I've come about your offer for bristles.
   我今天来访的目的是想听取你方对猪鬃的报盘。
9. I believe this will come about.
   我相信这一天终会到来。
10. 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？
11. 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。
12. A great change in the peasants thinking has come about.
    农民的思想发生了很大变化。
13. Can you tell me how the accident come about?
    你能告诉我这事故是怎样发生的吗？
14. I come about your grandson, lucius.
    我是为了你的孙子而来的，卢西尔斯。
15. So you didn't come about the Jews at all.
    你不是为了犹太人而来。
16. With the use of electricity, great changes have come about.
    随着电的使用，种种大变化发生了。
17. How does it come about that you were caught by the police?
    你被警察抓住是怎么发生的？
18. I'll come about six; does that suit?
    我大约六点钟来，合适吗？
19. I don't know how this confusion has come about.
    我不知道这种混淆是怎么形成的。
20. How does it come about that he is always so busy?
    怎么搞的他总是那么忙？
21. So how did your arrest come about?
    那么你是怎么会被抓起来？
22. Of how this might come about.
    看看这是怎么出来的。
23. Do you know how the phrase come about?
    你知道不知道这个成语是怎样产生的？
24. A number of standards changes have come about in the past year.
    过去的一年中对标准进行了大量更改。
25. 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。
26. 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。
27. How did the war come about?
    这场战争是怎么发生的？
28. 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？
29. Tell me, how does this relapse come about?
    告诉我，这种病为什么会犯？
30. When Mother woke up, she didn't know what had come about.
    母亲醒来的时候，她不知道发生了什么？

verb

1. 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