英语词汇“event”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	event
释义	event I. \ə̇ˈvent, ēˈ- chiefly South sometimes ˈēˌv-\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin eventus, from eventus, past participle of evenire to happen, from e- + venire to come — more at come 1. a. (1) : something that happens : occurrence < this day's event has laid on me the duty of opening out my heart — William Wordsworth > < such an event would shock the conscience of the world > (2) : course of events : activity, experience < ending my brief account of long event — D.C.Peattie > < from his dark berth he could see without moving this whole immense and immediate theater of human event — Thomas Wolfe > — often used in plural < events proved the folly of such calculations > b. : a noteworthy occurrence or happening : something worthy of remark : an unusual or significant development < her new book was the intellectual event of the year > < the great event of his childhood was a voyage to America > < the flat monotonous plains stretch away … a single tree becomes an event — Alan Moorehead > 2. a. obsolete : the end to which a person or thing comes : fate b. (1) archaic : the outcome or consequence of anything : issue, conclusion, result < then very doubtful was the war's event — Edmund Spenser > < curiosity as to the event of an evening which had raised such splendid expectations — Jane Austen > (2) : the issue or outcome of a legal action or proceeding as finally determined c. : an outcome, condition, or contingency that is assumed or postulated : case, eventuality — used chiefly in the phrase in the event < in the event of the king's death, the prince succeeds > < in the event he has not been told, I will tell him > < in the event you are right, I have been tricked and cheated > 3. a. : any one of the contests in a program of sports < track and field events > b. : a competitive contest of a specified kind or class < a bow shot in the same manner as in a regulation target event > c. : fixture 3a(1) 4. : an occurrence, phenomenon, or complex of processes occupying a restricted portion of four-dimensional space-time : a happening represented by a point designated by x, y, and z as coordinates of place and t as time in the space-time continuum, it being a fundamental assumption of the theory of relativity that all physical measurements reduce to observations of relations between happenings Synonyms: see effect, occurrence • - at all events - in any event - in the event II. noun : a subset of the possible outcomes of a statistical experiment < 7 is an event representing 12 possible outcomes in the throwing of two dice >
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