arrive和getto和reach有什么区别（arrive-reach的用法）

1 arrive

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.

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 suitcase 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.

- Beautiful women, after all, rarely arrive anywhere on time.

2 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.

3 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 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 could not afford to move.

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