2.2.2 想出一个主意或形成一个观点

这种用法在英语中较常见，但汉语中并不多见，值得注意。

1. It never entered anyone's head that she could have had a motive for killing her

husband.

没有人会想到她有杀死她丈夫的动机。

2. It never entered my head to be a poet. 我从没想过成为一名诗人。

3. His best ideas came to him in dreams. 他最好的主意是在梦中想到的。

4. An idea came to me. 我想到了一个主意。

5. At last the idea came to him of sending the dog for help.

最后他想到了让狗去求助。

6. A thought had come into her mind. 她想到一个主意。

7. An idea has occurred to me. 我已经想到了一个主意。

8. The bright idea occurred to her that she could casually broach the subject while

moving round among the spectators.

她想到一个好主意，当她在观众中间走动时，她可以不经意间提出这个话题。

9. It somehow never occurred to one to think of the flesh-and-blood side of it.

似乎人们从未想到他们是血肉之躯这一面。

10. There were several things they never guessed, and one of them was that for a

striking scene in the novel, in which a footman briefly figured, it occurred to me to

make use of Major Monarch as the menial.

有几件事是他们从未想到的，其中之一就是一个仆人短暂出现过，我想到把梅杰·默纳克

用作仆人。

11. Suddenly Alastair MacIntyre looked as if an unpleasant thought had just struck

him. He quickly recovered himself and began to whistle casually.

艾乐斯泰尔.麦克恩泰尔好像忽然想起了什么不快乐的事情，他迅速恢复了常态并

开始漫不经心地吹起口哨来。

12. It crossed my mind that the store would be closed at five o'clock.

我想到商店将会在五点关门。

13. Then it dawned upon him that there was no further need to escape the

bacteriologist.

那时他忽然醒悟，他再也不必逃避细菌学家。

14. It dawned on him what he had done. 他突然想到他曾经做过的事。

15. A sense of strangeness seemed to dawn on the lady.

这位太太突然有一种奇怪的感觉。

16. Then, immediately arose the idea of a non-reasoning creature capable of speech.

那时，立刻意识到没有理性的生物能够说话。