词组 | reach |
释义 | reach You use arrive or reach to say that someone comes to a place at the end of a journey. I'll tell Professor Hogan you've arrived. He reached Bath in the late afternoon. ◊ 'arrive' You usually say that someone arrives at a place. ...by the time we arrived at Victoria Station. ...from the moment he had arrived at the Harlowes' bungalow. However, you say that someone arrives in a country or city. He had arrived in France slightly ahead of schedule. The American Ambassador to Mexico arrived in Quito today. ◊ WARNING You never say that someone 'arrives to' a place. You also do not say that someone 'arrives at home' or 'arrives in home'. You say that they arrive home. We arrived home and I carried my suitcases up the stairs behind her. You do not use a preposition after arrive in front of 'here', 'there', 'somewhere', or 'anywhere'. I arrived here yesterday. When we arrived there, we went to the garage. Plans are deliberately indefinite, more to travel than to arrive anywhere. ◊ 'reach' Reach always takes a direct object. You do not say that someone 'reaches at' a place or that they 'have just reached'. It was dark by the time I reached their house. ◊ another meaning Arrive at and reach can both be used to say that someone eventually makes a decision or finds the answer to something. It took us several hours to arrive at a decision. They were unable to reach a decision. I had arrived at a conclusion on the basis of the only facts then available to me. The commission could not reach a conclusion because of inadequate data. ◊ 'come to' Come to can be used in a similar way. Kwezi thought for a while, then seemed to come to a decision. I came to the conclusion that I didn't really fancy civil engineering. |
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