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单词 it comes to pass
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it comes to pass (that)
c. With subordinate clause. it comes to pass (that): it comes to be the fact that; it comes about or happens that. Usually in past tense.Used frequently in Tyndale's Bible (1526) and in the King James version (1611); in later use sometimes archaic or humorous with allusion to this biblical style.to pass is now usually apprehended as the infinitive of the verb.
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1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xi. f. xiiij And it cam to passe when Iesus had ended his preceptes..he departed thence.
1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique Ded. And so it came to passe, that through the pithye eloquence of this noble Oratoure, divers stronge Castels and Fortresses were peaceablye geven up.
1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xxii. i And it came to passe after these things, that God did tempt Abraham. View more context for this quotation
1671 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 5) ii. 136 It came to pass that divers were unburgessed.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 418. ¶3 But how comes it to pass, that we should take delight in being terrified or dejected by a Description.
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 44 It comes to pass, that those places only, which are situated in the point of divergence..experience two tides a day.
1840 W. M. Thackeray King of Yvetot in Paris Sketch Bk. III. 212 And every day it came to pass, That four lusty meals made he.
1874 A. Trollope Phineas Redux I. xl. 331 Every man..knows very well who will be the next Prime Minister when it comes to pass that a change is imminent.
a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. ix. 230 Thus it came to pass that, after the first spurt, the business fell back to about where it had been before Susan came.
1992 J. Dominguez & V. Robin Your Money or your Life v. 157 And so, as they say in fairy tales, it came to pass that she had a successful husband, two sons, [etc.]
2001 Times 27 June ii. 11/2 And so it comes to pass that Patrick Wallingford..has his left hand snatched from him while standing just too close to a lion's cage.
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