词汇 | come to grief |
释义 | come to griefcome to grief FAILto fail, or to be harmed or destroyed in an accident 失败;〔在事故中〕受损,被毁 candidates who come to grief in exams 考试失利的应试者 Examples from the Corpus come to grief• But out of sight at the other end of the course, Mr Hill had also come to grief.• She'd come to grief acting like that, but not from him.• This is often far from the case and many a combination has come to grief at the very last fence.• Far from remaining a hero, he came to grief.• The reductivist enterprise thus inevitably comes to grief, and it is not altogether surprising that it does.• When it comes to that interesting pastime, most members of most species come to grief.• Then might not the rotting stump of the tree split under their weight and they come to grief? → come to grief at grief(2) |
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