ar·rive /əˈraɪv/
(vi.)到達,抵達,到來;達成,得出
Ar·rive, v. t.
1. To bring to shore. [Obs.]
And made the sea-trod ship arrive them. --Chapman.
2. To reach; to come to. [Archaic]
Ere he arrive the happy isle. --Milton.
Ere we could arrive the point proposed. --Shak.
Arrive at last the blessed goal. --Tennyson.
Ar·rive v. i. [imp. & p. p. Arrived p. pr. & vb. n. Arriving.]
1. To come to the shore or bank. In present usage: To come in progress by water, or by traveling on land; to reach by water or by land; -- followed by at (formerly sometimes by to), also by in and from. “Arrived in Padua.”
[Æneas] sailing with a fleet from Sicily, arrived . . . and landed in the country of Laurentum. --Holland.
There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived at Ipswich. --Macaulay.
2. To reach a point by progressive motion; to gain or compass an object by effort, practice, study, inquiry, reasoning, or experiment.
To arrive at, or attain to.
When he arrived at manhood. --Rogers.
We arrive at knowledge of a law of nature by the generalization of facts. --McCosh.
If at great things thou wouldst arrive. --Milton.
3. To come; said of time; as, the time arrived.
4. To happen or occur. [Archaic]
Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives. --Waller.
Ar·rive, n. Arrival. [Obs.]
How should I joy of thy arrive to hear! --Drayton.
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arrive
v 1: reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She
arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago
until after midnight" [syn: get, come] [ant: leave]
2: succeed in a big way; get to the top; "After he published
his book, he had arrived"; "I don't know whether I can
make it in science!"; "You will go far, my boy!" [syn: make
it, get in, go far]