happen

• vi. 发生；碰巧；偶然遇到

hap,发生，运气，机会，词源同happy.即好运发生，后用于中性词即可指发生的好运也可指坏运。

1. come to pass;

"What is happening?"

"The meeting took place off without an incidence"

"Nothing occurred that seemed important"

2. 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)

3. chance to be or do something, without intention or causation;

"I happen to have just what you need!"

4. come into being; become reality;

"Her dream really materialized"

5. come upon, as if by accident; meet with;

"We find this idea in Plato"

"I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"

"She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"

happen

happen: [14] Surprisingly for such a common verb, happen is a comparatively recent addition to the English language. Old English had a number of verbs denoting ‘occurrence’, all long since defunct, including gelimpan and gescēon, and in the 13th century befall began to be used for ‘happen’, but the first signs we see of the coming of happen are when English acquired the noun hap ‘chance, luck’ in the 13th century.

It was borrowed from Old Norse happ, a word of uncertain ancestry but probably related to Old Slavic kobu ‘fate’ and Old Irish cob ‘victory’, and represented in Old English by gehæp ‘fit’. In the 14th century it began to be used as a verb meaning ‘happen by chance’, and hence simply ‘happen’, and before the century was very old it had been extended with the verbal suffix -en to happen.
=> happy, perhaps

happen (v.)

late 14c., happenen, "to come to pass, occur, come about, be the case," literally "occur by hap, have the (good or bad) fortune (to do, be, etc.);" extension (with verb-formative -n) of the more common hap (v.). Old English used gelimpan, gesceon, and Middle English also had befall. In Middle English fel it hap meant "it happened." Related: Happened; happening. Phrase happens to be as an assertive way to say "is" is from 1707.

happen, occur, chance, take place

这些词语都可表示"发生"之意。

happen： 普通用词，泛指一切客观事物或情况的发生，强调动作的偶然性。

occur： 较正式用词，可指意外地发生，也可指意料中的发生。

chance： 侧重事前无安排或无准备而发生的事，特指巧合。

take place： 多指通过人为安排的发生。

Maybe some experience in their childhood meant that they became obsessed ( ' , 着迷) with calendars and what happened to them, says Patihis.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Apartments will retain their appeal for a while for Millennials, haunted by what happened to home-owning parents.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

What people were like when they came in had greater consequence than what happened once they were there.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Was it because of the growing attraction of the Internet, video games and endless TV channels? Never disconnecting from work? No matter how it happened, millions of Americans are putting their health, quality of life and even length of life in danger.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

How can I help you?The massive decline in sleep happened so slowly and quietly that few seemed to notice the trend.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

We then assessed their beliefs about other aspects of learning and looked to see what happened to their grades.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Teachers are not people who are great at and consumed by research and happen to appear in a classroom.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

To make that happen, you have to help the child find pleasure in learning—to see school as source of joy.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

They tend to enjoy the moment when something good is happening, and seize opportunities that come up.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

The kind of shopping—where you hand over notes and count out change in return—now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters, like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a corner shop.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Isn't it a bit weird that spending it should happen in half a blink ( ' , 眨眼 ) of an eye? Doesn't a wallet—that time-honoured Friday-night feeling of pleasing, promising fatness—represent something that matters? But I'll leave the economics to the experts.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Few startups happen in Miami, for example, because although it's full of rich people, it has few nerds.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

But what did Carnegie-Mellon yield in Pittsburgh? And what happened in Ithaca, home of Cornell University, which is also high on the list?I grew up in Pittsburgh and went to college at Cornell, so I can answer for both.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

For clues to the book's future, let's look at some examples of technological change and see what happened to the old technology.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

The same may happen with the sharing economy, which also provides new opportunities for enterprise, Some people have bought cars solely to rent them out, for example

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

what would happen at meal time if you remembered eating a lot in the previous meal

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

And it may be especially discouraging if you happen to be looking for a job or hoping to change careers right now.

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

Most Facebook users don't realize this is happening.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

What happened as a result of setting up big schools?

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

What happens if we lie, cheat, steal, or violate other ethical standards?

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

That's exactly what happened to the subjects who were learning the finger maze

出自-2012年12月听力原文

What did Lewis think had happened to his car the next morning?

出自-2012年6月听力原文

According to the speaker what happens to some proverbs with the passage of time?

出自-2011年12月听力原文

Well, it happens everyday to high schoolers.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

What happened in a drug store that greatly annoyed the speaker?

出自-2010年12月听力原文

"As what happened with tobacco, this will require a cultural shift, but that can happen," says Nguyen. "In the same way physicians used to smoke, and then stopped smoking and were able to talk to patients about it,I think physicians can have a bigger voic

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

According to an urban design professor, it is difficult for city designers to foresee what happen in the future.

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

As muscle soreness develops, the body has to work to repair the muscle tears, but this doesn't happen immediately.

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

As what happened with tobacco, this will require a cultural shift, but that can happen.

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

Few startups happen in Miami, for example, because although it's full of rich people, it has few nerds.

2015年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

I can promise you one thing: whatever you choose to do for a career, if you work hard at it, eventually, special things will happen.

2019年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

Isn't it a bit weird that spending it should happen in half a blink of an eye?

2015年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

It turns out that the cats were remarkably smart about what would happen when a container was tipped over.

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

Most of the participants are people who are just walking by or are on the island for other reasons, or they just kind of happen to be there.

2019年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

She said that would never happen in Italy.

2016年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

The center's "Shop with Your Doc" program sends doctors to the grocery store to meet with any patients who sign up for the service, plus any other shoppers who happen to be around with questions.

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

They may not happen as quickly as you'd like them to, and they may turn out to be completely different from the special things you imagined at the beginnings but they will happen.

2019年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

To make that happen, you have to help the child find pleasure in learning — to see school as source of joy.

2015年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

The reason is that when carbon is priced, those emissions reductions that are least costly to implement will happen first.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Most of the training for advanced-math competitions happens outside the confines of the normal school day.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Why, then, has this claim become so popular?Part of the answer is that this is what always happens during periods of high unemployment—in part because experts and analysts believe that declaring the problem deeply rooted, with no easy answers, makes them sound serious.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

That is far less likely to happen if Congress also adopts strong pay-go rules requiring that any increase in payments to providers be offset by new taxes or budget cuts.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

No one knows how to make that happen quickly.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

If this is not happening today, we should ask why.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

What happens to the centralized electric grid, which took decades and billions of dollars to build, as more and more people become prosumers, who produce and consume their own energy on-site?No one knows which – if any – battery technology will ultimately dominate, but one thing remains clear: The future of energy is in how we store it.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Studying at university will only become less attractive if employers shift their focus away from where someone went to university--and there is no sign of that happening anytime soon.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Today, I’d like to talk about what happens when celebrity role models get behind healthyhabits, but at the same time promote junk food.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

For this to happen, he suggests the multi-cultural managers exhibit understanding of their own and others’cultural influences and limitations.

出自-2015年12月听力原文

And it may be especially discouraging if you happen to be looking for a job or hoping to change careers right now.

出自-2015年12月听力原文

American educates so manymore people at university that one can’t expect all those who go to be as intelligent as the much narrower band in British universities, says the professor Christopher Rakes at Boston university, I’m not against elitism, but I happen to like having people who are more eager to learn.

出自-2015年12月听力原文

"We as a society need to understand that, when we don't punish lying, we increase the probability it will happen again," Ariely says.

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

A car that takes off from London street and lands in another random street is unlikely to happen," says Prof.

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

And for this to happen, we may need action on a global scale.

2016年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

For this to happen, he suggests the multi-cultural managers exhibit understanding of their own and others' cultural influences and limitations.

2015年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

I don't know what will happen to the next generation.

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

I don't think we know exactly what's going to happen but it's certainly possible that we could get very slow growth over the next year or two.

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

I want to photograph the disaster waiting to happen.

2017年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

Of course, sometimes things happen at the last moment and I don't have a chance.

2015年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

Once we recognize that these things happen to us, we are half way to doing something about them.

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

Professor Stephen Hawking has warned that the creation of powerful artificial intelligence A will be "either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity", and praised the creation of an academic institute dedicated to researching the future o

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

That is far less likely to happen if Congress also adopts strong "pay-go" rules requiring that any increase in payments to providers be offset by new taxes or budget cuts.

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

After he steadied himself, he shook Glenn's mother's hand, and the inspection continued as though nothing had happened.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

After nine weeks, they reported what happened.

2015年高考英语上海卷 完形填空 原文

As a result, in the last twenty years or so, many people have come to believe that whatever change is happening today is the result of great technological progress, going against which will be like trying to turn the clock back.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

As it happened, the bite was virtually painless: more the kind of small bite you might get from a naughty child.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

As long as one doesn't come to rely on it, wishing for a few good things to happen never hurts anybody.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Astonishingly, the Tremont hotel stayed open during the entire operation, and many of its guests didn't even notice anything was happening.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

But it doesn't happen by accident.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 原文

But such Ninos come with months of warning, and so much is known about how they happen that governments can prepare.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Daydreamers have a bad reputation for being unaware of what's happening around them.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 单项填空 原文

Even so, most white-collar work still happens in an office.

2016年高考英语浙江卷（10月） 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Eventually, I decided to follow her and what happened truly amazed me.

2016年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 A 原文

Great things happen when you step out of your comfort zone, and you would be surprised on how many chances exist if you just ask.

2016年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 七选五 原文

However doctor grand adds, that some people will hesitate, because they don't actually believe they can make it happen, while others will rush into downshifting to discover that their dream ends up with the financial crisis.

2015年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文

I don't have to write down what happened or what technique the author was using when he or she wrote this.

2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

I won't let it happen again.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

If nations could only keep the initial promises of the Paris Agreement, what would happen by the year 2100?

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 题设

If that happened, Seppala might fall into the icy water below.

2016年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文

If the new safety system had been put to use, the accident would never have happened.

2017年高考英语北京卷 单项填空 原文

Leroy Chiao describes what happens even before you float out of your seat, your inner ear thinks you're falling.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

More ordinary forms of adaptation are happening everywhere.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Nothing good will happen when you are silent.

2016年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Once that happened, I just kept pushing my studying further and further back in my day.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文

Perhaps the neighbors just happened to "overhear" the cry.

2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Readers will associate themselves closely with what happens in the news stories and share similar feelings with those involved.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 题设

Seeing the positive side of things doesn't mean you're ignoring what happened.

2015年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 选项

Serious readers will both get excited over what happens in some news stories and adapt themselves to the reality.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 题设

Several important things happened that day.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文

She was anxious to know what had happened.

2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项

Still others think that super intelligent AI will never happen.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

That is happening in the UK and singapore, where government-provided driverless vehicles are being launched.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

That's exactly what is happening in small neighborhoods around the country from orange county, California, where 22 measles cases were reported this month, to brooklyn, n.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The event happening in the house was more significant.

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项

The sustainable success of small farmers, though, won't happen without fundamental changes to the industry.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The writer's mother liked to read "patty poem" probably because it gave her a hint of what would happen.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 题设

They've been too badly hurt and they can't bear to let it happen again.

2015年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 选项

This time, we stayed together, in case anything else unusual happened.

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Today, people still come and go — to see where the Canadian gold rush happened.

2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Unlike the forced wait, which is also voluntary, waiting for your lucky break does not necessarily mean that it will happen.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

When that happens, people become less likely to volunteer in the future.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

When this happens, the important thing is to try not to let a calm discussion turn into a heated argument.

2015年高考英语福建卷 短文填词 原文

When one of these noneconomic categories is threatened and, if we happen to love it, we invent excuses to give it economic importance.

出自-2010年考研翻译原文

” Achievement happens because you as a person embody the external achievement； you don‘t “ get” success but become it.

出自-2011年考研翻译原文

Yet quite how that happens, Mr.Menand does not say.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

If that happens, passionate consumers would try to persuade others to boycott products, putting the reputation of the target company at risk.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

For something curious has been happening in American universities, and Louis Menand, a professor of English at Harvard University, captured it skillfully.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

Either Entergy never really intended to live by those commitments, or it simply didn’t foresee what would happen next.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

But, unlike with mining claims, the community takes control of what happens next.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

The principle of British welfare is no longer that you can insure yourself against the risk of unemployment and receive unconditional payments if the disaster happens.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

It is as though 20 years of ever-tougher reforms of the job search and benefit administration system never happened.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

In today’s world, title has become normal that well—paid executives should not be accountable for what happens in the organizations that they run perhaps we should not be so surprised.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

And interest groups ranging from postal unions to greeting-card makers exert self-interested pressure on the USPS's ultimate overseer-Congress-insisting that whatever else happens to the Postal Service, aspects of the status quo they depend on get protected.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

Among the annoying challenges facing the middle class is one that will probably go unmentioned in the next presidential campaign: What happens when the robots come for their jobs?.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

Dr Kroo and his team modeled what would happen if three passenger jets departing from Los Angeles San Francisco and Las Vegas were to assemble over Utah,assume an inverted V-formation, occasionally change places so all could have a turn in the most favour

2010年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Either Entergy never really intended to live by those commitments, or it simply didn't foresee what would happen next.

2012年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Just think: that is the worst that could happen?

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

When left alone in the room, the students who did not know which ones would shock them clicked more pens and incurred more shocks than the students who knew what would happen.

2018年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Do you know what happened to Gill Lovecy (= have you any news about her) ?

你有吉尔·洛夫西的消息吗？

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What's happened to your car?

你的车出什么毛病了？

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It's the best thing that has ever happened to me.

这是我所遇到的最好的事。

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I hope nothing (= nothing unpleasant) has happened to them.

我希望他们没出事。

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‘Sorry─I've spilt some wine. ’ ‘Never mind. These things happen. ’

“对不起，我弄洒了些酒。”“没关系。这种事在所难免。”

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It just so happened they'd been invited too.

他们碰巧也获得邀请。

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As it happens, I have a spare set of keys in my office.

碰巧我在办公室有一套备用钥匙。

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I agree with you, as it happens.

我恰恰和你意见一致。

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That happens to be my mother you're talking about!

你们谈论的是我母亲！

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It happened that she was out when we called.

我们打电话时她刚巧不在家。

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You don't happen to know his name, do you?

你不会碰巧知道他的名字吧？

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She happened to be out when we called.

我们打电话时她刚巧不在家。

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Just plug it in and see what happens .

就把插头插上，看看会怎么样。

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What happens if nobody comes to the party?

要是没有人来参加聚会，会怎么样呢？

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She pressed the button but nothing happened.

她按下按钮，但什么反应也没有。

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I don't know how this happened.

我不知道这事怎么发生的。

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I'll be there whatever happens .

不管发生什么事我都会到那儿的。

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Let's see what happens next week.

咱们等着瞧下一周会怎么样。

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Accidents like this happen all the time.

此类事故经常发生。

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You'll never guess what's happened!

你根本猜不到出了什么事！

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She called Amy to see if she had any idea of her son's whereabouts. As it happened, Amy had.

她打电话给埃米，看她是否知道自己儿子的行踪。埃米还真就知道。

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I looked in the nearest paper, which happened to be the Daily Mail...

我仔细看了一下离自己最近的那份报纸，正巧是份《每日邮报》。

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We happened to discover we had a friend in common...

我们凑巧发现我们有一个共同的朋友。

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It's the best thing that ever happened to me.

这是我所遇到的最好的事情了。

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If we had been spotted at that point, I don't know what would have happened to us...

如果当时我们被发现了，我不知道会有什么后果。

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He trotted to the truck and switched on the ignition. Nothing happened.

他匆匆走向卡车并转动点火开关，结果没有任何反应。

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She wondered what would happen if her parents found her...

她不知道如果父母找到自己会有什么结果。

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The accident happened close to Martha's Vineyard.

事故发生在玛莎葡萄园附近。

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We cannot say for sure what will happen...

我们无法确定会发生什么事。

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