| 词汇 | descend upon |
| 释义 | Phr V descend upon descends, descending, descended descend on/upon swh/sb if a group of people descends on a place or person, they arrive, especially without warning or without being invitedA crowd of press photographers descended on the hotel.My sister and her family descended on us last Saturday. descend on/upon sb if a feeling, especially a bad feeling, descends on a group of people, they begin to feel itA feeling of despair descended on us as we realised that we were lost. ! Descend upon is more formal than descend on and is mostly used in writing.1. descend on/upon sb/sth if a group of people descend on a person or place, they all arrive suddenly, often without being invited: If friends suddenly descend on you at the weekend, you just have to hope you have something in the freezer. Thousands of football fans descended on the town.2. descend on/upon sb/sth if a type of weather, or silence, calm etc descends on a person or place, it seems to start very suddenly: A heavy fog suddenly descended on us, and we realized that we were lost. It was early evening, and calm had descended upon the river.3. descend on/upon sb if a sad feeling descends on you, you suddenly start to feel it: A black depression descended on her at the thought of the future. |
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