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单词 happening
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Definition of happening in English:

happening

noun ˈhap(ə)nɪŋˈhæp(ə)nɪŋ
  • 1An event or occurrence.

    altogether it was an eerie happening
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He can show some enthusiasm, but he can't make it seem, as McKay did, that we are ever in the presence of uplifting, spectacular happenings.
    • She said printmaking operates as a kind of meeting place between the conscious intention of art-making and the unintended happenings of life.
    • Peter says he has not experienced anything more than tingling hairs on the back of his neck, but many others have reported strange happenings, particularly around the historic tapestry room.
    • Anyway, that probably confused you, but I need to let Dmitri explain the happenings of the first night we stayed in a glorious hotel in the heart of San Francisco.
    • Made in English, it will perhaps be the first Indian movie to capture the backstage happenings of the small screen world.
    • Aristotle's own more subtle position was not appreciated; the only alternatives were seen as being that the world is the result of divine design or that it is the product of mere random happenings.
    • His platoon sergeant, SFC Dunchi brought Xavier up to speed with the happenings and particulars of their platoon, the Outlaws.
    • Hers is an intimate, common and close-up portrayal, full of everyday happenings and concerns.
    • The whole production, however, could do with a change of gear and could be taken more lightheartedly, allowing more fun to be taken of the spooky happenings.
    • Besides the onstage happenings, there was plenty going on offstage, as well.
    • The afternoon sped on, with the three visitors filling the Riley parents in on happenings in the Willie Shakespeare Company.
    • One sad happening prior to Christmas was the death of Galway's oldest resident Billy Lohan of Mervue who was in his 103rd year.
    • Every world event, every local happening, every personal circumstance has an eternal purpose to it.
    • Ablett performed brilliantly but subsequent happenings have proved that sport isn't always a test of character.
    • Each part contains three happenings which occur at once.
    • That's fine by me; it is within those years that some of the most iconic happenings in the NBA transpired.
    • I myself am suffering from having a paucity of exciting ideas / happenings to post about.
    • But like I said to begin with, I considered and still to this day consider the happenings of that night to be simply a form of artistic expression.
    • Let me also share with you some other exciting web happenings.
    • I will say that I've been pretty safe from any crazy happenings.
    • Overall, he and manager Harte were satisfied with the performance, given the happenings of the past year.
    • You can see why these happenings are exciting and uber-cool for the artists.
    • They even made the first jokes I had heard about the dreadful happenings last month.
    • I had very much enjoyed the spectacle though Hugo had seemed keener to direct my attention to the happenings in the private boxes rather than the performances on stage.
    • Away from the underground happenings of London, away from his friends, performing hitherto unheard songs to unappreciative punters was a daunting prospect.
    • Those of you who know the building at the corner of Ontario W. and St-Laurent are no doubt familiar with all the lofty artistic happenings that go on inside its walls on a daily basis.
    • Thus, though the happenings in postmodernist fiction seem fabulist, it is clear that the writers have one foot in contingent reality.
    • Perhaps it's a morning TV talk show that covers local happenings or a local home magazine that showcases great design or area artists.
    Synonyms
    occurrence, event, incident, scene, affair, circumstance, phenomenon, episode, adventure, experience, occasion, action, activity, development, eventuality, accident, case, business, thing
  • 2A partly improvised or spontaneous piece of theatrical or other artistic performance, typically involving audience participation.

    a multimedia happening
    Example sentencesExamples
    • From these Dada-like beginnings he developed a litany of Fookianisms which spilt delightfully over into happenings, art objects, bureaucracy and erotica.
    • These, like most happenings, were characterized by a conspicuous lack of narrative sense.
    • What ensues is neither stand-up nor sketch comedy, but a fluid multimedia happening that co-opts the audience and a bewildering number of stooges.
    • He was imagining and piecing together the possible happening.
    • Cricot's theatrical practices emphasized the visual arts; the plays staged there were more like happenings.
    • It is futile to attempt to explain conduct through the causal efficacy of desire - all that can explain is further happenings, not actions performed by agents.
    • Real time happenings that cannot be commodified or sold, retain their status as ‘art’ only so long as they retain discursive support.
    • Blurring art and life, the ‘Bed-Ins’ illustrate the strategies of happenings and Fluxus performance at the heart of Yoko's aesthetic.
    • Al Hansen was creating an avian happening by spelling out ‘ART’ in birdseed on a walkway.
    • Smith's affection for camp and penchant for mixing performance art and film transformed his screenings into happenings.
    • Its activities were mainly concerned with happenings (usually called Aktionen in Germany), street art, and so on.
    • Despite this unconventional presentation, the opera, by intention, generally avoids imitating Fluxus-style happenings.
    • Two of the cast of Nuts CocoNuts have teamed up with former Cubana performers to carry on the company's tradition of anarchic happenings that sit somewhere between fact and fiction, art and real life.
    • Usually, performance in the field of visual art includes methods of making art, the bodies of the artist or the viewer and performances linking life and art as actionism and happenings.
    • Shed promoter Simon Thackray presents these myriad delights in a season of nine concerts and artistic happenings at Brawby and Hovingham, near Malton.
    • The Ubu lightshows grew out of the happenings staged as part of ‘Theatre Of Cruelty.’
    • She frequently refers to such happenings as ‘experiments.’
    • Today I accompanied two Axis artists to a happening in a squalid squatter camp in downtown Johannesburg.
adjective ˈhap(ə)nɪŋˈhæp(ə)nɪŋ
informal
  • Fashionable; trendy.

    a happening neighbourhood
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But yet no one talks of Pondicherry as being a happening place, no one I have heard speaks of honeymooning in Pondicherry or Pondy.
    • This is the happening city in Sweden nowadays, for rock.
    • The Barbie doll image is now the hip and happening look.
    • Star was not a very happening channel those days and they already had two-three other chat shows and it became a case of excessive chattering.
    • The scene has definitely shifted from streets to apartment complex premises, residential compounds and to various happening places in the city.
    • The recent brawl in a city pub involving the son of a senior police officer has fixed the spotlight on these so-called happening spots.
    • The two nights would find us in the hotel's disco… Hellfire. Some great music, good crowd and generally a happening place.
    • He has turned Canongate into a happening publisher with a string of eye-catching and trendy properties to its name.
    • It is part of our strategy to see more activity at street level, making the neighbourhood a more happening place.
    • They have an office in Balma, Southern France, about 500 miles away from a beautiful, fashionable and happening Paris.
    • But of course, the fact that you meet all the happening people at the gyms is an added bonus.
    • Now these are things I would likely do on any happening evening.
    • A happening Hyderabad has been growing by leaps and bounds.
    • From there we went to Brighton Marina, partly because it's a cool and happening place to visit, but mainly because it has free parking.
    • This is the most happening entertainment content field right now.
    • Leeds was a really happening place in the 1960s.
    • Even I can't resist jumping into this and I admit it's because this thread's got that feel of a happening place.
    • Today because of technology, synthesizers and rhythm machines, the happening musicians of today create computerized music.
    • ‘What is now the ground floor of the Free Trade Hall will be the happening place to meet in Manchester,’ said Mr Smart.
    • He's also said ‘citizenship’ will be used as a unifying force, an admission that unity is not a happening thing at the moment?
    Synonyms
    fashionable, modern, popular, new, latest, up to date, up to the minute, in fashion, in vogue
    French de rigueur, le dernier cri
    informal trendy, funky, hot, cool, with it, hip, in, big, now, groovy, sharp, swinging
    North American informal kicky, tony, fly
    US informal down
 
 

Definition of happening in US English:

happening

nounˈhap(ə)niNGˈhæp(ə)nɪŋ
  • 1An event or occurrence.

    altogether it was an eerie happening
    Example sentencesExamples
    • That's fine by me; it is within those years that some of the most iconic happenings in the NBA transpired.
    • Every world event, every local happening, every personal circumstance has an eternal purpose to it.
    • Overall, he and manager Harte were satisfied with the performance, given the happenings of the past year.
    • Away from the underground happenings of London, away from his friends, performing hitherto unheard songs to unappreciative punters was a daunting prospect.
    • One sad happening prior to Christmas was the death of Galway's oldest resident Billy Lohan of Mervue who was in his 103rd year.
    • Ablett performed brilliantly but subsequent happenings have proved that sport isn't always a test of character.
    • He can show some enthusiasm, but he can't make it seem, as McKay did, that we are ever in the presence of uplifting, spectacular happenings.
    • Those of you who know the building at the corner of Ontario W. and St-Laurent are no doubt familiar with all the lofty artistic happenings that go on inside its walls on a daily basis.
    • Each part contains three happenings which occur at once.
    • They even made the first jokes I had heard about the dreadful happenings last month.
    • The afternoon sped on, with the three visitors filling the Riley parents in on happenings in the Willie Shakespeare Company.
    • Peter says he has not experienced anything more than tingling hairs on the back of his neck, but many others have reported strange happenings, particularly around the historic tapestry room.
    • Anyway, that probably confused you, but I need to let Dmitri explain the happenings of the first night we stayed in a glorious hotel in the heart of San Francisco.
    • The whole production, however, could do with a change of gear and could be taken more lightheartedly, allowing more fun to be taken of the spooky happenings.
    • I myself am suffering from having a paucity of exciting ideas / happenings to post about.
    • Besides the onstage happenings, there was plenty going on offstage, as well.
    • You can see why these happenings are exciting and uber-cool for the artists.
    • Made in English, it will perhaps be the first Indian movie to capture the backstage happenings of the small screen world.
    • But like I said to begin with, I considered and still to this day consider the happenings of that night to be simply a form of artistic expression.
    • Hers is an intimate, common and close-up portrayal, full of everyday happenings and concerns.
    • His platoon sergeant, SFC Dunchi brought Xavier up to speed with the happenings and particulars of their platoon, the Outlaws.
    • Thus, though the happenings in postmodernist fiction seem fabulist, it is clear that the writers have one foot in contingent reality.
    • Perhaps it's a morning TV talk show that covers local happenings or a local home magazine that showcases great design or area artists.
    • She said printmaking operates as a kind of meeting place between the conscious intention of art-making and the unintended happenings of life.
    • I will say that I've been pretty safe from any crazy happenings.
    • I had very much enjoyed the spectacle though Hugo had seemed keener to direct my attention to the happenings in the private boxes rather than the performances on stage.
    • Let me also share with you some other exciting web happenings.
    • Aristotle's own more subtle position was not appreciated; the only alternatives were seen as being that the world is the result of divine design or that it is the product of mere random happenings.
    Synonyms
    occurrence, event, incident, scene, affair, circumstance, phenomenon, episode, adventure, experience, occasion, action, activity, development, eventuality, accident, case, business, thing
  • 2A partly improvised or spontaneous piece of theatrical or other artistic performance, typically involving audience participation.

    a multimedia happening
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Usually, performance in the field of visual art includes methods of making art, the bodies of the artist or the viewer and performances linking life and art as actionism and happenings.
    • Smith's affection for camp and penchant for mixing performance art and film transformed his screenings into happenings.
    • Today I accompanied two Axis artists to a happening in a squalid squatter camp in downtown Johannesburg.
    • Blurring art and life, the ‘Bed-Ins’ illustrate the strategies of happenings and Fluxus performance at the heart of Yoko's aesthetic.
    • Shed promoter Simon Thackray presents these myriad delights in a season of nine concerts and artistic happenings at Brawby and Hovingham, near Malton.
    • From these Dada-like beginnings he developed a litany of Fookianisms which spilt delightfully over into happenings, art objects, bureaucracy and erotica.
    • These, like most happenings, were characterized by a conspicuous lack of narrative sense.
    • Its activities were mainly concerned with happenings (usually called Aktionen in Germany), street art, and so on.
    • Two of the cast of Nuts CocoNuts have teamed up with former Cubana performers to carry on the company's tradition of anarchic happenings that sit somewhere between fact and fiction, art and real life.
    • He was imagining and piecing together the possible happening.
    • What ensues is neither stand-up nor sketch comedy, but a fluid multimedia happening that co-opts the audience and a bewildering number of stooges.
    • Cricot's theatrical practices emphasized the visual arts; the plays staged there were more like happenings.
    • It is futile to attempt to explain conduct through the causal efficacy of desire - all that can explain is further happenings, not actions performed by agents.
    • She frequently refers to such happenings as ‘experiments.’
    • The Ubu lightshows grew out of the happenings staged as part of ‘Theatre Of Cruelty.’
    • Al Hansen was creating an avian happening by spelling out ‘ART’ in birdseed on a walkway.
    • Real time happenings that cannot be commodified or sold, retain their status as ‘art’ only so long as they retain discursive support.
    • Despite this unconventional presentation, the opera, by intention, generally avoids imitating Fluxus-style happenings.
adjectiveˈhap(ə)niNGˈhæp(ə)nɪŋ
informal
  • Fashionable; trendy.

    nightclubs for the young are the happening thing
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is part of our strategy to see more activity at street level, making the neighbourhood a more happening place.
    • Star was not a very happening channel those days and they already had two-three other chat shows and it became a case of excessive chattering.
    • Even I can't resist jumping into this and I admit it's because this thread's got that feel of a happening place.
    • Leeds was a really happening place in the 1960s.
    • This is the most happening entertainment content field right now.
    • They have an office in Balma, Southern France, about 500 miles away from a beautiful, fashionable and happening Paris.
    • The two nights would find us in the hotel's disco… Hellfire. Some great music, good crowd and generally a happening place.
    • From there we went to Brighton Marina, partly because it's a cool and happening place to visit, but mainly because it has free parking.
    • The Barbie doll image is now the hip and happening look.
    • The scene has definitely shifted from streets to apartment complex premises, residential compounds and to various happening places in the city.
    • The recent brawl in a city pub involving the son of a senior police officer has fixed the spotlight on these so-called happening spots.
    • He has turned Canongate into a happening publisher with a string of eye-catching and trendy properties to its name.
    • ‘What is now the ground floor of the Free Trade Hall will be the happening place to meet in Manchester,’ said Mr Smart.
    • A happening Hyderabad has been growing by leaps and bounds.
    • Today because of technology, synthesizers and rhythm machines, the happening musicians of today create computerized music.
    • But yet no one talks of Pondicherry as being a happening place, no one I have heard speaks of honeymooning in Pondicherry or Pondy.
    • This is the happening city in Sweden nowadays, for rock.
    • But of course, the fact that you meet all the happening people at the gyms is an added bonus.
    • Now these are things I would likely do on any happening evening.
    • He's also said ‘citizenship’ will be used as a unifying force, an admission that unity is not a happening thing at the moment?
    Synonyms
    fashionable, modern, popular, new, latest, up to date, up to the minute, in fashion, in vogue
 
 
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