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動詞

fall upon (三人称単数 現在形 falls upon, 現在分詞 falling upon, 過去形 fell upon, 過去分詞 fallen upon)

1. to experience; to suffer.

   With the rise of the Internet, some media fell upon hard times.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:

     Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, […] , and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.

2. to occur at some particular point in time.
   • 1925, Charles Henry Brewitt-Taylor, chapter 1, in Romance of the Three Kingdoms:

     It fell upon the day of full moon of the fourth month, the second year, in the era of Established Calm (AD 168), that Emperor Ling went in state to the Hall of Virtue.

3. to set upon; to attack suddenly
   • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “Measvre for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii], lines 1-3:

     If the Duke, with the other dukes, come not to composition with the king of Hungary, why then all the dukes fall upon the king.