How did it come to pass that their lips met?

他们的嘴唇又怎么相遇的呢？

youdao

Had it come to pass, decimal time and decimal angular measurement might have done for the 19th century what GPS did for the 20th.

如果当初这些办法流行开来，十进制时间测量方法和十进制角度测量方法之于19世纪可能就会像GPS之于20世纪。

youdao

I've worked very hard to pass this exam—luck doesn't come into it.

我为通过这次考试下了很大的苦功，运气不是主要的。

《牛津词典》

The hydrogen for these fuel cells (and for the rest of Iceland's new hydrogen economy, should it come to pass) will be made initially in a fertiliser plant that has been turning the stuff out since the 1950s.

ECONOMIST: Clean living in Iceland

The whole point of the Budget Control Act was to create a trigger, a forcing mechanism that was so onerous that nobody wanted it to come to pass.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

That will be a rude awakening for the American people if it were to come to pass.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,