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British and informal, a little old-fashioned: to arrive somewhere without planning it — the place where life's drop you. 'He fetched up in a small hotel in Tainan.' Younger speakers nearly always say 'end up' instead, so learn this one for reading novels more than for speaking.
（沒特別計畫地）流落到、最後落腳在
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
fetch upverb
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To arrive somewhere, especially unexpectedly.
- We panicked again for a moment, but the wind switched direction without warning, and we slowly drifted away till we fetched up at Tsukuda island, where the Sumida runs into the bay.
- These salvos tore apart San Franciscos upper works, and, as Admiral Callaghan and most of the bridge crew died in the inferno and explosions, a few shrapnel-ridden survivors fetched up' in unlikely portions of the ship, and it now came about that every senior commanding officer on both sides was now dead or out of action within the opening acts of the battle.
- 2
obsoleteTo overtake.
- Says [the hare], I can fetch up the tortoise when I please.
- 3
To vomit.
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archaicTo suddenly stop.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。