Happen
['hæp(ə)n] or ['hæpən]
解释:
(verb.) come to pass; 'What is happening?'; 'The meeting took place off without an incidence'; 'Nothing occurred that seemed important'.
(verb.) come into being; become reality; 'Her dream really materialized'.
(verb.) happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance; 'It happens that today is my birthday'; 'These things befell' (Santayana).
(verb.) chance to be or do something, without intention or causation; 'I happen to have just what you need!'.
整理:彼得--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.
(v. i.) To take place; to occur.
坎迪编辑
同义词及近义词:
v. n. Chance, occur, befall, betide, come, take place, turn up, fall out, come to pass.
哈利整理
同义词及反义词:
[See LUCK_and_BEFALL]
伊夫林整理
例句:
- I happen to know that he paid seven hundred pounds to a footman for a note two lines in length, and that the ruin of a noble family was the result. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Don't let it happen again. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- But I bethought myself that I was in a boat, after all; and that a man like Mr. Peggotty was not a bad person to have on board if anything did happen. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- It can seldom happen that much can be spared from the circulating money of the country; because in that there can seldom be much redundancy. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- And if you should ever happen to hear anything said against father that is new to you, it will not be true. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- I was afraid to put it off till next day (the Friday); being in doubt lest some accident might happen in the interval. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- How did that happen, when she was in your secret? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Ten minutes passed--and nothing happened. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- I will tell you it just as it happened, sir, said he. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- So it would seem it happened to Gautama. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The same thing happened at each place where they stopped. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- That evening, of course, Celia knew nothing of what had happened. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- A great stone that I happened to find, after a long search, by the sea-shore, served me for an anchor. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- What had happened to India was very parallel to what had happened to Germany. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some most important business. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- This happens whenever information about the world is made an end in itself. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- He makes it too secure, as it happens. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- This happens to be a thoroughly Greek attitude. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- That is exactly what happens. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- We have all heard of certain animals sleeping through the long winter months and most of us have probably wondered what happens to them when they do this. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Never mind about 'happening,' Mr. Lorry. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- But to get a full picture of what is happening you cannot read only the party organ. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- But there were times even to the end when he was capable of realising what was happening to him in the present, the death that was on him. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- I suppose you have heard what's been happening to the beauty on the hill? 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- For an active participant in the war, it is clear that the momentous thing is the issue, the future consequences, of this and that happening. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- And Tom loves his children; and it's dreadful, papa, that such things are happening, all the time! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- What do teachers imagine is happening to thought and emotion when the latter get no outlet in the things of immediate activity? 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
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