英语词汇“happen”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	happen
释义	hap·pen I. \ˈhapən, -p^əm\ verb (happened \-pənd, -p^ənd\ ; happened \“\ ; happening \-p(ə)niŋ\ ; happens \-pənz, -p^əmz\) Etymology: Middle English happenen, hapnen, from hap, happe, n., hap + -enen -en — more at hap *intransitive verb* 1. a. : to occur fortuitously, casually, or coincidentally : come about without previous design — often used with impersonal it < it happens the 500-mile auto race is in progress — Bruce Westley > < as it happens, I have the book right here > b. : to come into existence spontaneously or as if spontaneously without causal necessity, effort, or other process < no success in life merely happens — Katharine F. Gerould > < we were together and love happened — Galway Kinnell > 2. a. : to present itself as an event or process : become a reality : come into being : take place : occur < a study of what happens when we sleep > < accidents are continually happening > < cloudbursts do not happen … often — G.W.Murray > < hurried to the scene … where the shooting happened — Current Biography > b. (1) : to present itself as an experience or effect — used with to < creep is what happens to a hot metal when you pull it — R.P.Lister > < all sorts of pleasant things happened to him > (2) : to present itself by way of injury or harm — used with to < the tickbirds … make sure that nothing happens to their rhino — Jule Mannix > < I'd have something happen to me if I did — Rose Macaulay > 3. : to have the luck or fortune < he happens to be a very rich man > < forms of life which happen to be adjusted to their environment — W.R.Inge > < I happened to hear it > 4. : to chance to come : fall, light < while leafing through a journal … I happened across this passage — R.A.Hall b.1911 > < happened on a cottage almost hidden in elm tree boughs — Times Literary Supplement > < happened upon a remarkable and neglected volume — Charlton Laird > 5. : to come or go casually : make an appearance : turn up : drop in < he happened into the typists' room to borrow a stamp — Dorothy Sayers > < hoping that no wayfarer would happen along the lane — Joseph Conrad > < any person who might happen by was expected to … visit — American Guide Series: Texas > *transitive verb* dialect : to become of : occur to : befall < little I mind what happens me — Augusta Gregory > < what would happen my little business if I … married her — Frank O'Connor > Synonyms: chance, occur, transpire, befall, betide: happen is a general term without special connotation and signifies to take place either with or without plan, motivation, or apparent or assignable cause. chance, perhaps somewhat archaic or literary in suggestion, stresses lack of plan or causation < a novel that chanced to be local and concrete and true — Sinclair Lewis > < he chanced to sit banqueting with the mariners about the hour of tierce — G.G.Coulton > occur, often interchangeable with happen, has the additional meaning of be found, be met with, exist, may more strongly suggest an event which commands attention or consideration, and is more frequent than happen with negatives < a sluggish, smoke-colored animal, occurring in shallow swamp waters — L.P.Schultz > < a bismuth bearing vein occurs on Charley Creek — Encyc. Americana > < when once a certain detachment from possessive vice and objective ambition has occurred in the mind — J.C.Powys > < this is possible in theory, but, actually, never seemed to occur — V.G.Heiser > transpire means to leak out and become known; by semantic change it has come to mean simply occur, although it is likely to be used of events of some importance < all memorable events … transpire in morning time and in a morning atmosphere — H.D.Thoreau > < no clear-cut issue developed and no real contest transpired — E.E.Robinson > befall and betide, both rather literary, may suggest occurring because of destiny or fate and may be used especially with reference to unpleasant matters < a … piece of ill fortune, which about this time befell me — Charles Lamb > < the fate which Beria meted out to so many should now have befallen him — Malcolm Muggeridge > < woe betide a known traitor > II. adverb now dialect : maybe, perhaps < and happen they'll tell him so too — Angus Wilson >
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