We wouldn't have come by a day early like this,我们本不该像这样提早一天来拜访

come by<美>来串门；得到

You just go on ahead. I'll come by later.

你只管先往前走。我随后就来。

Is it okay if I come by myself?

我一个人来行吗？

Be careful what you wish for.小心愿望成真哦

wish for希望得到

Who could wish for a better opportunity?

谁还会企求能得到比这更好的机会呢？

We are apt to wish for what we can't have.

我们往往会祈求得不到的东西.

There's been a veritable invasion of riffraff around here ever since the feds flattened the rates.自从政府削减利率后总有一些乌合之众想要入住此地

ever since 从那时到现在； 自从；自…以后；从…起

I've had the hots for him ever since he came to college.

自从他来上大学后，我就对他春心萌动。

I've been dieting ever since the birth of my fourth child.

我生完第四个孩子后就一直在节食。