词组短语
happen to be碰巧是；恰巧是
as it happens碰巧；偶然发生
happen on偶然遇到或发现
happen to meet偶然遇见
happen to coincide不约而同；不谋而合
同近义词辨析
accident, happening, event, occurrence, incident
这组词都有“事故、事件”的意思，其区别是：
happening和occurrence这两个词多指日常生活中发生的一般事件，有时也指偶然发生的事。
event可指任何大小事件，但尤指历史上的重大事件。
occurrence和happening这两个词多指日常生活中发生的一般事件，有时也指偶然发生的事。
incident既可指小事件或附带事件，又可指政治上具有影响的事件或事变。
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
- One could not logicize about such happening.
这种事不能以逻辑来解释。 - What he told us was not a dream but an actual happening.
他给我们讲的不是梦，而是一件真实的事。
权威例句
What's Happening to the Amphibians?What is happening to Chinas GDP statistics?Supply chain collaboration: what's happening?What's Happening to the Family? Interactions Between Demographic and Institutional ChangeWhy is this happening? A causal attribution approach to work exhaustion consequences.Chronic Community Violence: What Is Happening to Our Children?Ontogeny of the human central nervous system: what is happening when?Toward Technology Integration in the Schools: Why it isn't Happening.Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) annual inventory answers the question: what is happening to pinyon-juniper woodlands?Neurotoxicity, Neuroplasticity, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Morphometry: What Is Happening in the Schizophrenic Brain?
