英语释义

1. to affect or involve (someone or something) as the result of an event or action
An odd thing happened to me on my way to the office last week. I wonder what/whatever happened to that guy after he lost his job. especially to affect (someone or something) in a bad or harmful way
I promise nothing will happen to you. What happened to the car? There's a big scratch on the fender.

片语

happen n to sb发生在某人身上

happen to hear偷听；恰巧听说；碰巧听到

happen n to do sth碰巧做某事

chance to机会；偶然发生

happen n to碰巧

Happiness happen next to live快乐就是朴实地生活

sth happen to sb某人发生某事

happen to sb某事发生在某人身上

happen n to meet恰巧碰到

英汉例句

• if you happen to make it to the goal, it will have been by luck or chance and is not repeatable.

  如果你碰巧实现了一个目标，你可以靠运气或者机会，但是运气或机会是没有重复性的。

• i had no idea what would happen to them or where the film would go, but i knew that i had found an amazing family; a modern-day version of the joads from the grapes of wrath.

  我不知道会有什么事情发生在他们身上或是电影走向何处，但是我知道自己发现了一个令人惊喜的家庭，现代版愤怒的葡萄的约德一家。

• please drop in at my office when you happen to be free.

  如果你碰巧有空的话，请到我的办公室来。

• if anything should happen to him, that would be too bad.

  要是万一他发生了什么事可就糟了。

• i believe something will happen to these economies that will make them change their mind.

  我相信总有些事情会发生在这些国家使得他们改变主意。

• everyday, i receive phone calls from companies who are afraid the same thing could happen to them.

  每天我都接到一些公司的电话，他们担心同样的事情会发生在自己身上。

• you know, all this technology is scary for actors—what will happen to us?

  你知道的，所有这些技术都让演员们担惊受怕——将有什么发生在我们身上？

• a: a predisposition to heart disease would probably increase your risk of sudden death, but it happens at all ages and can happen to otherwise healthy people.

  答：易患心脏病的人可能会增大突然死亡的风险，但是它也发生于所有年龄段的人，而且也可能发生在健康人身上。

• remember that many injuries and deaths from toy asphyxiation happen to kids as old as 10 or 11.

  请牢记那些发生在10到11岁孩子身上的由玩具引起窒息的伤害和死亡事件。

• indeed, it would be an improbable bit of luck if this particular world did happen to have all the right stuff for life, since so many ingredients and conditions have to fall in line.

  事实上，如果这个特定的世界能偶然地凑齐所有的生命产生的条件，那真是几乎不可能发生的幸运，因为罗列在列表上的元素和要求是如此之多。

• for some youngsters, the vividness of a sensational news story can be internalized and transformed into something that might happen to them.

  一些较小的孩子会将惊人的新闻故事的生动鲜明内在化并将它转变成可能会发生在他们身上的事情。

• but what would happen to the economy if we all took life a little bit easier?

  但如果我们都生活得轻松一些，那么经济会发生什么变化呢？

• as he leaves, he wonders aloud: should anything happen to me, will another man stand under the lamplight with my love?

  离别之际，他禁不住想：未来将会发生什么事呢，会不会有另一个男人和我的爱人再站在这个灯光下呢？

• if there happenedto be both rich and poor people, as there happen to be both black and whiteones, then the advantages of the well-heeled might well spread in time to the hard-up.

  如皋碰巧都是富人和穷人，正好像碰巧都是黑人和白人一样，那么富有的优越性则有可能及时传播到那些缺钱的那里。

• so what will happen to the euro?

  那么，欧元将会发生什么事情？

• and i had it in my head that if i went to talk to someone this would happen to me, to my children.

  我总是认为如果我和别人谈及自己的状况，那么同样的不幸就会发生在我和我的孩子身上。

• yes, this does happen, but unless you live in a desert or in arctic conditions, it probably won’t happen to you.

  没错，这确实会发生，但除非你住在沙漠或在极冷的条件，（否则）这不会发生在你身上。

• i used to hear stories of awful tragedies and think of all the reasons it could never happen to me.

  以前，我读着那些可怕的悲剧，根本想象不到有任何理由这些事情会发生在我的身上。

• why are they standing back in silence and allowing this to happen to us.

  他们怎么能默默坐视不管，就让这一切在我们身上发生。

• the real question posed by the 「torchwood」 scenario is: what would happen to all our death-defying systems if there were no more death?

  《火炬木》的剧情提出的真正问题是：如果再也没有死亡，那么所有我们这些抵御死亡的系统又会发生什么？

• if you happen to find this approach successful, please let us know so that we can plan periodic updates for future columns.

  如果您碰巧发现这种方法很成功，请告诉我们，以便我们能够为今后的专栏计划定期的更新。

• this is what must happen to old married couples, i thought: the young man is preserved in the old one for her, the beauty and grace of the young woman stay fresh in the old one for him.

  这一定是发生在一对老夫老妻身上的事情，我心想：那个年轻人为了她而存活在老者的心中，而那年轻女人的美和优雅为了他而鲜活地永驻在老者的心中。

• because with this little change, you will no longer be swayed up and down depending on whether good things or bad things happen to you, whether people (and their actions) are good or bad.

  因为这个改变不大，你的情绪将不再因为好的不好的事发生在你身上而高高低低，无论他（和他们的行动）是好还是坏。

• but bad things happen to lots of people — sometimes in groups.

  但糟糕的事情发生在很多人——有时是一群人——身上。

• it sounds gracious on the surface—to say that god has no law, no standards, no expectations, no commandments, no threats—that he is simply there to affirm me in whatever i happen to be.

  这听起来亲切的表面说，上帝没有法律，没有标準，没有期望，没有戒律，没有威胁，他就在那里，我肯定在什么我碰巧。

• if i happen to finish my one thing early, i can slack off for the rest of the day (my favorite strategy), or i can pick my next one thing.

  如果我碰巧把这件事情完成地比较早，我可以在这一天剩余的时间懒懒散散（这是我最爱的方式），也可以选择下一件「一件事」。

• as these trends continue, what will happen to the desktop and where will it live?

  由于这些趋势在继续发展，桌面会发生什么变化，它的生存空间在哪里？