（高頻詞彙）happen 用法綜述

在美國當代英語語料庫統計的20000個常用詞中，happen位居常用詞第216位，在4.5億個單詞中出現了182714次。今天就帶大家一起來系統學習happen的用法。

詞形變化：

happens,happened,happened

Happen詞義解析：

1.(of a situation or an event) to have existence or come into existence  發生

No one knows exactly what happened .

沒人確切瞭解發生了什麼事。

Anything could happen in the next day.

接下來的一天內什麼事都可能會發生。

A funny thing happened in the office today.

今天，辦公室裏發生了一件有趣的事。

2.  If something happens to someone or something, it has an effect on him, her, or it.發生在（某人）身上；作用於…

I don't know what I'd do if anything happened to him (= if he was hurt, became ill, or died).

我不知道一旦他出了事我該怎麼辦。

What happened to your shirt? There's a big rip in the sleeve.

你的襯衫怎麼了？袖子上撕了一條大口子。

3.  to do or be by chance 偶然，碰巧

They happened to look (= looked by chance) in the right place almost immediately.

他們碰巧幾乎一下就找對了地方。

Fortunately it happened (that) there was no one in the house at the time of the explosion.

幸運的是，爆炸發生時，屋子裏沒有人。

It just so happens that I have her phone number right here.

非常湊巧，我正好有她的電話號碼。

She happens to like owl (= she likes owl, although that is surprising).

她恰恰喜歡貓頭鷹。

4. perhaps可能；我估計

Happen it'll rain later on.

過一會兒可能會下雨。

詞組搭配：

en on/upon sth/sb

to find or meet something or someone by chance 偶然發現；偶然遇到

Eventually they happened on a road leading across the desert.

最後，他們偶然找到了一條穿越沙漠的路。

en along/by (somewhere)

to go to a place by chance or without planning to 碰巧來到

I'd have drowned if he hadn't happened along and pulled me out of the river.

要不是他碰巧走過，把我從河裏拉上來，我可能已經淹死了。

en to sb

發生在（某人）身上；作用於…

What happened to you? You look so sad.

發生什麼事了？你看起來好難過。