| 单词 | occurrence |
| 释义 | oc·cur·rence 1. < a happy occurrence > < a disastrous occurrence > < an unusual occurrence > 2. a. < the occurrence of a genuine dispute — R.M.Dawson > b. < the occurrence of mammal remains falls sharply throughout the summer — Ecology > < a fish of regular occurrence along the southern coast of California > : the fact of being met with or of taking place 3. < evidence of oil occurrence > < the occurrence of shallow coal beds in this region > 4. Synonyms: < occurrences which we not only do not, but cannot perceive — Bertrand Russell > incident may suggest either a trivial happening unworthy of attention or a more consequential or unusual happening having some effect < his unexpected appearances and disappearances were incidents in the house — Willa Cather > < the faculty for myth … seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious — W.S.Maugham > episode stresses the notion that the occurrence in question has an apartness or unity by itself, with no implication about the significance, or lack of it, of the occurrence < the dumb creation lives a life made up of discrete and mutually irrelevant episodes — Aldous Huxley > event is more likely than others in this set to suggest a happening or occurrence of moment or significance or a happening logically ensuing from or giving rise to another happening < assassination was an event of daily occurrence — T.B.Macaulay > < it is, in fact, almost a routine incident in a distinguished career. In the case of Mark Twain it became a historic event — Van Wyck Brooks > < events acting upon us in unexpected, abrupt, and violent ways — John Dewey > circumstance in the general sense here involved indicates specific or detailed incident < stood reflecting on the circumstances of the preceding hours — Thomas Hardy > |
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